Using prospective research methodology to understand policy advocacy for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)
Sarah Clark, Suad Abdi, Sunungarai Dominica Chingarande, Sahro Ahmed Koshin, Rolla Khadduri, Alex le May · 2024
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Judging whether advocacy changed a law is usually done after the fact, when memories fade and credit blurs. Sarah Clark and five co-authors argue for watching it live instead, in this 2024 commentary drawn from a two-and-a-half-year study of advocacy for sexual and reproductive rights. Their teams tracked campaigners and the policy weather together, in real time, across three settings.
Local researchers shadowed civil society groups pushing against sexual and gender-based violence in Somaliland and Puntland, and for safe abortion access in Zimbabwe. The commentary explains what prospective tracking looks like day to day, and why it suits advocacy, where wins are slow, indirect, and shared. Funders who fund campaigns, the authors suggest, should fund this kind of witness too, since retrospective scorekeeping keeps underrating what advocates do.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sarah Clark, Suad Abdi, Sunungarai Dominica Chingarande, Sahro Ahmed Koshin, Rolla Khadduri, Alex le May |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 21 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |