Advocacy and Policy Influencing, 22-26 March 2010
Five-day course in Oxford: £1250 residential, £999 non-residential |
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A quick update on our upcoming advocacy course
This 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.
Apply now whilst there are places left!
For further information contact us on +44 1865 263040 |
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- 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; how to reach a wider audience; and, how to relate to the media with more confidence
- Review methods for monitoring and evaluating advocacy initiatives
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| Meet the trainer |
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Tess Kingham has experience of working both within the UK Parliament and the international NGO sector. As a Member of the UK Parliament Tess sat on several parliamentary committees, including the Select Committee on International Development and the Committee on Strategic Arms Exports and was a founding member of the global Parliamentary Network on the World Bank. This has given her a personal insight into the political dynamics of the UK, the European Parliament and Commission and the international policy-making arena.
Prior to her political employment Tess worked for NGOs such as War on Want, Oxfam GB, the Blue Cross and Crime Concern. Tess is now a part-time consultant specialising in advocacy evaluation and training with international NGOs.
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INTRAC
Oxbridge Court
Osney Mead
Oxford, OX2 0EZ
Phone: +44 (0)1865 201851
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