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National Capacity Building Workshop for NGO Personnel on Tobacco Control
Organized by
HRIDAY (Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth)
on Behalf of
Advocacy Forum for Tobacco Control (AFTC)

February 2-3, PHD House, New Delhi

Day 1 : February 2, 2009

Session 1: Global Tobacco Epidemic and Indian Scenario
Session 2: Prevalence of Tobacco use among different strata in India
Session 3: The Indian Tobacco Control Act, 2003 & challenges in implementation of tobacco control laws
Session 4: Government of India's Tobacco Control Initiatives and National Tobacco Control Programme
Session 5: NGO-Government partnership for effective implementation of tobacco control laws: Gujarat case study
Session 6: What is Advocacy? Strategies for Tobacco Control Advocacy
Session 7: Success stories in tobacco control
        A)Legal advocacy
        B)Media Advocacy
        C)Policy maker advocacy
        D)Best practices in implementing smoke-free laws: Smoke-free Kottayam

Day 2 : February 3 , 2009

Session 1: Role of NGOs in tobacco control
Session 2: Advocacy Forum for Tobacco Control (AFTC): 2001-2009
        A)Genesis of AFTC and its objectives
        B)AFTC project updates(Delhi)
        C)AFTC project updates(Mumbai) and AFTC website
Session 3: Indian and global web-based resources for tobacco control