Building Capacity Project
Advocacy Training Manual
Session 5

Analyzing our capacity

Evidence on actions to reduce harm done by alcohol:

• taxes and minimum price,
• availability,
• advertising,
• drink driving,
• screening and brief interventions,
• treatment,
• drinking environment,
• education awareness.

Organizational capacity
Individual capacity

Aim
To assess the organizations in which the participants work and to identify the skills mixed needed.

Objectives
By the end of the session, trainees will be able to:

• Identify the strengths and weaknesses of an organization in undertaking an advocacy campaign
• Identify characteristics of effective leadership

Bibliography:
- Handbook for action to reduce alcohol-related harm, World Health Organization, 2009

- Evidence for the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions to reduce alcohol-related harm, World Health Organization, 2009

- Alcohol: Price, policy and Public Health, Report on the findings of the expert workshop on price convened by SHAAP

- P. Anderson, D. Chisholm, D. Fuhr; Alcohol and Global Health 2 Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of policies and programmes to reduce the harm caused by alcohol; The Lancet, Vol 373, June 27, 2009.

- NOT PUBLISHED YET: Alcohol policies: A consumer’s guide, Table 16.1; Revised edition