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Networking for Policy Change: An Advocacy Training Manual

It is through advocacy—a set of targeted actions in support of a specific cause— that a supportive and self-sustaining environment for family planning and reproductive health goals can be created. This training manual was prepared to help representatives of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and other formal groups of civil society form and maintain advocacy networks and develop effective reproductive health/family planning (RH/FP) advocacy skills. The manual's tools and approaches can be used to affect RH/FP policy decisions at the international, national, regional, and local levels.