individual session plans with detailed instructions on how to conduct each session. This guide is designed to be used together with the complementary Participant’s Manual.

Objectives of the training:

• gain a deeper understanding, and develop a working definition, of experience and evidence-based advocacy as it applies to children’s needs and rights.

• understand the basic elements of advocacy, its role in Save the Children, and how it is integrated into programme work to achieve real and lasting results for children.

• learn a set of steps to plan for strategic advocacy and begin to develop an advocacy plan related to your work.

• strengthen personal relationships with fellow advocates, learning from each other’s experience, and working towards building a community of advocacy practitioners.

• develop a plan to share this workshop’s learning with colleagues, allies and constituents

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This guide was born in 2018 during a series of workshops and remote engagements with young people across the African continent. UNICEF Africa Services Unit (ASU) and partner Youth@SAIIA held workshops in Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique and Uganda, bringing together approximately 60 young people from these countries to discuss meaningful youth engagement and work towards the creation of the guide. An online call for stories was shared widely, asking young people from across Africa and the diaspora to reflect upon and share their stories of public advocacy and youth engagement. Selected participants took on editorial roles and joined as co-creators, assisting Youth@SAIIA and ASU in analysing and writing content for the guide. In 2020, UNICEF’s Adolescent Development and Participation