Organization: International NGO Training and Research Centre
Registration deadline: 14 Jan 2018
Starting date: 19 Feb 2018
Ending date: 23 Feb 2018
This course gives participants a thorough understanding of how to influence the policy making process in their own context to achieve policy change. You will learn skills to help you plan and deliver effective advocacy strategies; enhance your ability to influence decision makers; and gain confidence in the ways in which you relate to different audiences. You will also have a more thorough understanding of power dynamics in an advocacy context.
1 Objectives of the course
By the end of the training participants will:
• Be able to identify different approaches to advocacy and the values and strategies that underlie them
• Be familiar with the stages of the advocacy planning cycle and be better equipped to build an advocacy strategy
• Be able to analyse the external environment and policy processes and identify appropriate ‘levers of influence’
• Develop a simple theory of change for achieving the policy change being sought
• Be aware of power dynamics and the role it plays in achieving advocacy success
• Have explored and practised core advocacy skills regarding: lobbying, using the media, public campaigning, networking, and applied research for advocacy
• Have reviewed appropriate tools and methods for monitoring and evaluating advocacy initiatives.
2 Intended audience
This course is particularly relevant to those with some experience in advocacy which they would like to build on. Participants do not need to have had formal work experience in this area or to have worked in an advocacy/policy role.
3 Core content areas
• Approaches to advocacy
• Planning and delivering advocacy strategies
• Advocacy planning cycle
• Identifying the issue and analysing the problem
• Analysing the external environment
• Power and stakeholder analysis
• Identifying chains and levers of influence
• Analysing policy processes
• Developing a theory of change
• Lobbying decision makers
• Communicating with different audiences
• M&E of advocacy
Depending on level of interest we may also include sessions on:
• Using the media
• Public campaigning
• Policy research for advocacy purposes
• Doing advocacy in networks and coalitions
How to register:
To apply for this course, please complete an online application: https://www.intrac.org/how-we-work/training/application-form/
For more information hon this course or any of our other courses, please contact the INTRAC Training Team: Phone: +44 (0)1865 263040/201851, Email: training@intrac.org, Web: www.intrac.org/how-we-work/training/