Event Brief:
This course helps you prepare to take on an influential advocacy role towards ending hunger and poverty.
- Explore essential advocacy concepts and tools such as lobbying, media advocacy, people-centred advocacy and evidence-based advocacy.
- Design your advocacy campaign through our innovative "canvas methodology" and
- define partners, key influencers, objectives, key demands, as well as the strategy and
- activities of your campaign.
- Reflect on your role, personally or for your organisation.
- This course includes 2 consecutive workshops as well as mentoring sessions that stretch over the entire 4-month period.
Event Description:
- Participatory learning in two residential workshops with a total of 10 training days
- International group of participants from Asia
- Practical assignments related to your work
- One-one mentoring by the faulty throughout the 2 months’ interim period between the two workshops
TARGET GROUP:
Mid to senior level staff of Civil Society Organisations working on hunger and poverty with a strong commitment to introduce and/or expand their activities in the field of advocacy
MODULE OUTLINE
Content
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Details
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1st workshop | New Delhi, India | 8 - 13 May 2017
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What and Why of advocacy in the context of food and nutrition security
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Advocacy concepts:
- What is advocacy? Who are advocacy agents, and why do they do advocacy
- Forms of advocacy
- Understanding power
- Introduction to and understanding institutions of governance for advocacy:
- Legislature, Executive, Judiciary
- Other stakeholders or 'influencers'
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Civil Society:
characteristics, roles and spaces
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- Shift from a needs-based (project focus) to a rights-based approach
- Roles and spaces for civil society to do advocacy
- What does it take to do advocacy
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Analysis of tools/strategies for advocacy action in the context of hunger and poverty
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- International frameworks and their relevance for national/local advocacy
- Advocacy strategies and advocacy canvas/toolbox
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Advocacy Canvas:
Planning and Implementation of an advocacy strategy
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- Participants plan advocacy initiatives including different advocacy tools and methods
- Engaging with Government
- Funding opportunity for Advocacy Projects
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Assignments and Monitoring phase
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Assignments
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- Each participant has to complete two assignments:
- Sharing learnings of the course with colleagues back home or application and documentation of one advocacy tool
- Planning one advocacy canvas
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2nd workshop | Bangalore, India | 31 July - 3 August 2017
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Deepening advocacy learnings and the way forward
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- Presentation and sharing of assignments
- Clarifying and deepening advocacy learnings
- Communication skills for advocacy
- Looking ahead: Planning the way forward in relation to advocacy initiatives related to hunger and poverty
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Register by: 25th Apr 2017
Early Bird, Group Discounts and few Scholarships are available
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