From 20^th to 25^th November, 2011, VPHA in collaboration with Binh Dinh PPHA and Dong Nai PPHA held the training courses on "Advocacy in Public Health" at their provinces.
 Representatives of the provincial units including: Provincial Police, Department of Transportation, Department of Information & Communication, Department of Education & Training, provincial Women's Union, Farmers' Association, Association of the Elderly, some provincial health centers attended the training courses.

The participants actively discussed the situation, local health problems, took role play to be able to understand concepts and practise their skills in advocacy.

The self-assessment results about learners' advocacy capacity before courses showed that: in Binh Dinh, 47% learners said they had a bit of advocacy capacity in Public Health, 31% did not have any. In Dong Nai, 37% learners said they had advocacy capacity at good level,  36% had a bit and 22% did not have any.

After 3 days of training, learners self-assessed their progressive level of knowledge on policy advocacy.100% of the learners found that their knowledge improved from 1 to 2 levels. Especially some learners found that their knowledge improved 4 levels (from level 1 to 5).

These are the activities in  the capacity building plan for public health members and strengthening the sectoral collaboration in public health of VPHA