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Advocacy to End Hunger And Poverty- Empowering People and Influencing Policy Makers
Civil Society Academy

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
Details
1st workshop | New Delhi, India | 8 - 13 May 2017
What and Why of advocacy in the context of food and nutrition security
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'
Civil Society:
characteristics, roles and spaces
  • 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
Analysis of tools/strategies for advocacy action in the context of hunger and poverty
  • International frameworks and their relevance for national/local advocacy
  • Advocacy strategies and advocacy canvas/toolbox
Advocacy Canvas:
Planning and Implementation of an advocacy strategy
  • Participants plan advocacy initiatives including different advocacy tools and methods
  • Engaging with Government
  • Funding opportunity for Advocacy Projects
 
Assignments and Monitoring phase
Assignments
  • 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
 
2nd workshop | Bangalore, India | 31 July - 3 August 2017
Deepening advocacy learnings and the way forward
  • 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
 
Register by: 25th Apr 2017
 
Early Bird, Group Discounts and few Scholarships are available
 
For Registration and more details, write to aldo@civilsocietyacademy.org