Traning on Public Speaking and Advocacy Media Press

On Saturday and Sunday the 21-22 CYWA volunteer participated in an introductory course entitled ‘’ Public Speaking and Advocacy ‘’ Training Course on Public Speaking and Advocacy’s goal is to build capacity of young women activist for ASEAN in Public Speaking  and advocacy, training them to be the best speaker of ASEAN and to know the process of doing statement on ASEAN Human Rights Declaration and training them to have skill in advocacy for the promotion and protection of human rights. This Training Course was held on July 21-22, 2012 at SILAKA Training Facilities in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 

This Training Course has the following objectives:

1.       Understanding  ASEAN and its advantages;

2.       Overview of Important characteristic the public speaker

3.       Introduction to tips for effective public speaker

4.       Advocacy through media and its method and analysis its impacts;

5.       Understanding the practical applications of advocacy on media.

The workshop was held over two days with the first day’s topic being a short introduction to ASEAN and ASEAN Human Right Declaration, Public Speaking and Advocacy. This part was facilitated by Mrs. Aum Borany and Keuth Samuth, SILAKA Training Team. Trainees were guided to what ASEAN is; its meanings for Cambodia and its people; things that Cambodian women should do to cope with ASEAN integration; last but not least, what activities have Civil Societies have done so far in contribution to ASEAN Human Right Declaration.

Mr. Kueth Samuth’s presentation introduced the participants to  11 main points ranging from: an introduction to public speaking, the ethics of public speaking, speaking confidently, responding to speeches, supporting your speech, outlining your speech, wording your speech, delivering your speech, using presentational aids, the strategy of persuasion, and the structure of persuasion. 

The following day, Samuth gave a brief introduction to advocacy, and he showed about advocacy process.Also, he let trainees to join in groups and gave presentation on particular topics by following process given.

On the last day, trainees learnt about Action Plan and Advocacy, Advocacy through media, and Applied media. The opening session of the training course consisted of self-introduction, setting rule for the training, participants’ expectation, and goal and objective of the training. This session was facilitated by Ms. Vary Khus, SILAKA Admin Supervisor and CYWA Volunteer Coordinator.