This project aims to strengthen the voice of direct palliative care stakeholders and increase their impact as advocates to improve access to quality palliative care worldwide.
We have announced the recipients of our grants round aimed at strengthening the voice of direct stakeholders in palliative care communications and advocacy. The successful projects are:
We believe that the voice of direct stakeholders is critical to increasing the impact of palliative care advocacy so better care is available to more people who need it. At the same time, in many settings direct stakeholders have not being given the opportunities to speak out and participate in all stages of palliative care advocacy activities. We are trying to find some new ways to address this.
Who are palliative care direct stakeholders?
People who are currently living with conditions that require palliative care now or may require it in the future and those who are in older age and approaching the end of the life cycle.
What do we aim to achieve with this project?
To strengthen the voice of direct stakeholders and increase their impact as advocates to improve access to quality palliative care worldwide.
Our aim is to improve the power balance and dynamics and look at who is speaking on behalf of whom to develop a more impactful social justice movement on palliative care in Low and Middle Income Countries and worldwide.
We also aim to share our learning widely with direct and indirect stakeholders and the wider community including palliative care practitioners, healthcare workers, policymakers and people working with or interested in health and social justice.
What are our key activities?
We are doing this by delivering a grants process which will put resources into the hands of direct stakeholders to develop and deliver their own solutions to raising their voices for increased access to palliative care in LMICs.
We are developing and implementing an output-oriented communications plan to maximize the reach of these stakeholders' voices, and to facilitate their contribution to global advocacy.
We have established a committee of people drawn from existing organisations led by direct stakeholders to develop and deliver the grants programme in collaboration with WHPCA staff.
In addition, we will work with direct stakeholders to review the engagement of direct and indirect stakeholders in all WHPCA governance and activities and implement recommendations.
We are conducting a review of WHPCA governance and communication structures, led by a direct stakeholder consultant.
How can you get involved?
To find out more or to get involved, please email Claire Morris, WHPCA Global Advocacy Director on cmorris@thewhpca.org
34-44 Britannia Street, London, WC1X 9JG, United Kingdom
e-mail: info@thewhpca.org