● A Children’s lobby of Parliament – usually in association with a national diabetes organisation or JDRF if active in your country, where children with diabetes come to meet their elected representatives and tell them about their experience of living with diabetes.
● Testing Day for Parliament – usually in association with a national diabetes organisation or nearby medical centre where Parliamentarians, their staff and staff of the Parliament can be tested for diabetes.
● Exhibition to publicise diabetes – usually in association with a public health body.
● Meeting on diabetes with invited speakers – usually a health minister alongside a medical professional and a patient.
● Sponsored events to raise funds for research, treatments and advocacy, such as walks, runs, and challenges.
● A blue circle (the emblem of diabetes) of people around the Parliament – successfully tried in Portugal around Lisbon City Hall raising the profile of diabetes though the national media as a result.
● Request for an annual report to your Parliament on the state of diabetes in your country.
Advocacy Action: Check with your national diabetes association to see what they are planning and how you can work together for mutual benefit. And do report back with photos for our December newsletter.