Overview of requirement introduced in 2002 that requires Financial Sustainability Plans to be submitted to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI).

ALIVE is an advocacy model for saving newborn lives. The model illustrates a process for mobilizing will and resources to reduce neonatal mortality. Through this process, ALIVE helps to create a policy environment supportive of newborn health by stimulating policy dialogues and strategy planning. The model also brings together local champions of child survival and energizes them around a coherent set of goals.

This training guide introduces the concept of advocacy and provides a framework for developing an advocacy campaign. The guide is designed for a workshop setting, but can also be used as a self-teaching device. Divided into twelve modules, the guide presents general information on advocacy training.

This training guide for Christian and Muslim clergy, imams, and lay leaders was designed to aid in the launching of the second phase of the "Stop AIDS/Love Life" Compassion Campaign. The manual serves as a primary resource for the downstream training of Ghana's religious community members in attitude and behavior change. The purpose of the Compassion Campaign is to encourage a more compassionate response towards people living with HIV/AIDS.

Creating lasting change is the goal of every development-oriented organization. However, governments and donors offer support in increments of three to five years and prescribe changes within that limited time span. This document highlights just a few examples of efforts by AED to contribute to long-term improvements in health in a world of short-term commitments and shrinking funds. It focuses on seven major innovations designed to significantly change the way we do development. AED's efforts focus on how individuals change, how societies change, and how community solutions can be applied at a scale that will improve the health of large populations.

This research report presents the findings and tools of the Bellagio Conference on Competencies: Communication for Development and Social Change, held January 28 - February 11, 2002. The report outlines the skill sets needed for competency-based performance, including standardization, assessment, and certification. The importance of effective communication for social change in development is also discussed

This report describes PROFILES, a data-based approach to nutrition policy development and advocacy. It is a process designed to demonstrate the contribution that improved nutrition can make to human and economic development and to influence the way policy makers think about public health nutrition issues and the priority they give to investing in nutrition programs. At the heart of this approach is a set of computer models that translate nutrition data and scientific analyses into terms and arguments that make sense to non-experts.

REDUCE is an advocacy model for reducing maternal mortality, morbidity, and disability. The process is designed to stimulate policy dialogue and strategic planning on maternal health and safe motherhood. The goal of REDUCE is to mobilize decision makers to take appropriate action to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity.

The toolkit was designed for NGOs, community groups, and HIV educators to raise awareness and promote actions to challenge HIV stigma and discrimination. Based on research in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Zambia, the toolkit contains more than 125 exercises.

This report reviews evidence showing how communication interventions have contributed to immunization programs. It analyzes studies and arguments attesting to the fact that, when adequately funded and carefully planned, communication has a positive impact on immunization levels. Based on this evidence, the report makes a call to relevant stakeholders to increase levels of support for communication activities. It suggests ways in which adequate funding for strategic communication could help immunization programs to tackle a myriad of challenges that immunization programs are currently confronting.