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CALL FOR ACTION
• Courtesy visit to target organizations e.g. FRSC
• Work with existing structures i.e. partnership
• Alcohol industries can support events, but limit the number of free drinks available to an individual
• Billboards showing the harmful effects of alcohol drinking on pregnant women should be advertised in different languages
• Fliers should be produced educating the public about alcohol-related harm
• Social welfare, including door-to-door dissemination of information on harmful effects of alcohol
• Any domestic violence relating to excessive alcohol intake, which if brought to the notice of the law, should be a criminal offence.
• More synergy should be made with other NGOs
• Advocacy should state the harmful effects of alcohol, with facts and figures
• Enforcement of retail policies
• Slogans should carry the message of the harmful effect of alcohol
• Use of celebrity role models for Behavioral Change Communication (BCC)
• Stricter work policies regarding alcohol consumption during working hours, should be enforced in both government and private parastatals
• Advocacy visits to policy makers
• Funding, by alcohol industries, of research projects
• Research to enable one build up one’s argument against the need to legislate alcohol policies
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Emeka Diru
Development rests on virile youth...my concern is to give back to our communities,improve lives ,influence policy, and design framework for change.
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