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ASH organized six FCA Awareness Raising and Capacity Building Workshops on Tobacco Control and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) around the world with funding from the World Health Organization in 2004.

These workshops were based on a highly successful model designed in cooperation with the Advocacy Institute that has been used in Romania, India, Japan, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Thailand and other countries. The workshops were held in Guatemala, Argentina, Uganda, Romania, Philippines and Thailand. More on Workshops >>

In 2005, ASH and the Framework Convention Alliance organized several tobacco control capacity building workshops and a University Course, "Summer School on Tobacco or Heatlth" in Warsaw, Poland. A major legislative workshop, held in Argentina, was attended by Presidente Tabaré Vázquez, President of Uruguay, along with many key legislators and representatives from Ministries of Health from several South American countries. More Information on 2005 Workshops >>

The Framework Convention Alliance and ASH were directly responsible for planning and organizing all aspects of these workshops and events, including content, documentation, logistics, and funding.

The goals for the participants of these workshops were to:

1. Gain an understanding of the WHO FCTC and its key components, the signature and ratification process both globally and nationally and how to build arguments in support of the FCTC by:

Ø      The treaty's key provisions

Ø      The economic and scientific rationale for the key tobacco control measures contained in the FCTC

Ø    Methods to counter the actions and arguments by the tobacco industry to undermine the procces of the FCTC becoming international law

Ø      Ways to dispel the fraudulent myths associated with tobacco control

2.      Identify the key elements for strategic plans to support the FCTC in the countries represented in the workshop.

3.      Develop concrete, country-specific action plans (including the definition of the roles for individuals, the building of alliances, coalitions or other modes of collaboration and partnership);

4.      Develop basic strategy planning skills for advocacy in support of the FCTC, including a level of understanding about using the media for advocacy purposes and how to build a campaign.

Learn More about Each Workshop >>