Training course:Advocacy and Policy Influencing
Place: Oxford
Training language: English
Dates: 20- 24 July 2009,22-26 March 2010
Duration: 5 days
Cost: £1250.00
Participants:
Course participants include staff from international and local NGOs from all over the world, donor organizations, support organizations, and civil society umbrella bodies.
Training 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
• Analyze 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 and evaluating advocacy initiatives
Description:
This popular and successful course gives participants 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 them – give new life to your advocacy work!
Apply online at http://www.intrac.org/training.php
Contact details:
Oxbridge Court, Osney Mead, Oxford,
OX2 0ES, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 201851
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 201852
Email: training@intrac.org