Advocacy and Policy Influencing

Advocacy and Policy Influencing
Dates: 08 September 2008 - 12 September 2008 Location: Oxford, UK
Course fee: £999.00
Number of days: 5
Description:
This popular and successful course gives participants, from Northern and Southern NGOs, a thorough understanding of how to influence the policy making process in their own context. You will learn skills to help you formulate and plan effective advocacy strategies. Enhance your ability to lobby decision makers, and gain confidence in the ways in which you relate to the media - give new life to your campaigning!

Course objectives
· Identify different approaches to advocacy and the values and strategies that underlie them
· Understand the stages of the advocacy planning cycle and how to build an advocacy strategy
· Analyse the external environment and policy processes in order to identify appropriate 'levers of influence'
· Examine what makes lobbying successful
· Explore best practice in campaigning to reaching a wider audience and how to relate to the media with more confidence
· Review methods for monitoring & evaluating advocacy initiatives

Residential course, which includes course materials, accommodation, refreshments and meals during the course.