Advocacy for cervical cancer elimination: A handbook to support and empower cancer advocates

These are the issues that this handbook seeks to address:

• How countries can raise the profile of cervical cancer and make an effective contribution to the implementation of the Global Strategy towards the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem?
• What can contribute to make advocacy for cervical cancer elimination effective?
• How existing advocacy efforts towards the elimination of cervical cancer might then become more so?

It provides an account of the central role that advocacy efforts led by civil society can play to advance cervical cancer awareness, vaccination, screening and treatment programmes, and it does so under the lens of coalition building, engagement of decision makers, advocacy messaging and framing, and routine monitoring and evaluation of in-country advocacy efforts.

The handbook aims to do this through examples of good practices contributed by cancer advocates and experts from every region of the world that are captured in relevant publications, reports and articles. Drawing on these examples, the handbook shows the diversity of ways in which the key elements of effective advocacy for cervical cancer elimination can be realised in practice.

The handbook is intended for in-country civil society organisations or coalitions and covers three main areas of action, which are illustrated in dedicated sections on coalition building, advocacy, and monitoring and evaluation