Advocasy

Guest Speaker 

Mr. Abhaya

On Saturday, 11^th  April 2009.

Introduction

            Mr.Abhaya born and brought up in Hyderabad, He studied Engineering in electronics. He worked for MNC in Bangalore for 5 years and left the job by inspiring   himself to overcome social issues. So he went to Raichur and settled to work especialy on   Devadasi System.

Devadasi System

He made people to aware themselves and people got inspired, formed “Nava Jeevana Mahila Okkuta “(NJMO).  This is non -registered people’s organization, mainly they are working for Dalits and women in villages. Till now they have covered 100 villages around the Raichur district.

Advocacy

   It means identifying the social problem and making government and people to aware and solves it.

Ø  Advocacy should be done by people who affected by the  issue

Ø  Understanding the issue theoretical and practical aspects both in local contents and in other parts of country and the world.

Ø  Believe in the issue as belief in the strategy is important.

Ø  Grass root level work on the issue, both activism and constructive involvement.

Ø  To work along with the media and not use the media.

Ø  Data collection and presentation should be human, not just statistics.

Ø  To always have the goals broke down in to short term, medium term and long term demands.

Ø  Understanding of the government administrative machinery and way of working is very important.

Ø  Should have well wishes in all fields.

Ø  Proper use of all forums available sensitive days of year and reacting to important events is very essential.

Ø  Regular follow-ups is a very important.

 

Ø  Attack the issue simultaneously from many fronts, also one is some required to take two steps back and then move ahead.

 

Ø  Always fight for issue not people responsible. (Reference: Abhaya).

 

Advocacy is a process to reach a goal, he done advocacy in village with support by people, for example village does not have road, by involving people approaching the government and another example is open deficacy is a common problem in villages for women, so by involving people they approached the government and constructed the toilets.

 

The local people and media are supporting them for every cause always. The most of stake holders always fight the issue not the people responsible, leave the issue and attacking people is bad strategy to advocacy. He never attack the people, he always fought for issue.