"This toolkit aims to help global mental health researchers communicate their findings to their stakeholders. The principles in this toolkit can be applied to all stakeholders, including policy-makers, and to key messages about your project’s implementation and policy influence activities. This toolkit will help you to know: 1. How to package your key messages to make them remembered and acted upon by your stakeholders; 2. How to plan your communications methods and activities to achieve your project and policy objectives; 3. How to produce communications products, including impact statements, blogs, infographics and policy briefs, to communicate your key messages to your stakeholders." (Overview)
Guiding principles: packaging your key messages, 5
Knowing your stakeholders, 5
Getting your message to stick, 6
Tool 1. Developing your communications workplan, 11
Tool 2. Perfect communications product checklist, 13
Tool 3. How to write an impact summary, 15
Tool 4. How to write a blog, 16
Tool 5. How to create an infographic, 19
Tool 6. How to write a policy brief, 23