Fair Trade Ghana Network

The lead Facilitator, Dr. Enow provided definitions and examples of advocacy as well as a differentiation between advocacy and activism. Participants were also taken through the nine steps in advocacy further divided in three sections; Concurrent, Moving to Action and Quality Assurance Madam Celline, the other facilitator took participants through the use of media to advocate. There were group sessions to identify and review related policies to their operations. Presentations were made of the outcomes of these discussions and Position Papers and action Plans drawn. There were also case study analysis for participants to put to practice the various advocacy process and stages
Madam Madeline Njeri Muga, the Strategy and Impact Director of Fairtrade Africa based in Kenya suggested that national and international organisations should be mindful of pouring out onto the streets to ‘demonstrate’ because of the tendency of giving them a bad name and reputation. It was also mentioned that peaceful demonstrations could be useful but should be planned and targeted.
The Fair-Trade Advocacy officer, Mr. Elvis Corey in his closing remarks stated his plans to work with the consultants to review the final versions of the position papers and action plans and in conjunction with the Fair Trade Ghana Network, (FTGN) publish these documents. Dr. Jonathan Lanidune the Program manager of Fair-Trade Africa expressed his gratitude to the participants, the facilitators and other support staff for their involvement throughout the trainings and re-iterated the need for continuous engagement to bring about change through advocacy.