Advocacy and reporting

The famous manual by Ritu R. Sharma. Takes you through the whole process, from defining policy issues onwards to setting advocacy objectives. 137 pages. Download it here! - [Read more]

Offers a number of useful indicators for measuring impact of your advocacy work. By Megan Lloyd Laney, 2003. - [Read more]

The manual is organized around a well-developed model—tested over time and within diverse cultures for accomplishing advocacy objectives. The building blocks of advocacy are the formation of networks, the identification of political opportunities, and the organization of campaigns. The manual includes a section on each of these building blocks. Each section contains background notes, learning objectives and handouts. POLICY, 1999. - [Read more]

The New Tactics in Human Rights Project, led by a diverse group of international organizations and practitioners, promotes tactical innovation and strategic thinking within the international human rights community. Some great ideas in here!!! Well worth browsing for inspiration. - [Read more]

If your strategy involved alerting the general public through a campaign, you will find this A-to-Z guidebook extremely useful. - [Read more]

A number of short training modules, complete with handouts and powerpoints on advocacy: what is advocacy, stakeholder mapping, defining the issue, researching the issue, the campaign vision, and more. Developed by Tracy Naughton and APC (Association for Progressive Communications). Nice and concise, you will not regret downloading them! - [Read more]

The aim of this course is to help participants and their organisations to be more effective advocates for change. Over a period of four and a half days, participants will learn how to analyse the policy-making environment within which they are operating and subsequently explore a range of approaches to advocacy strategy, planning and implementation. - [Read more]

Basic and practical guide by Pact, both in English and Khmer. - [Read more]

WITNESS trains human rights defenders to use video to document abuse. Some good and free handbooks to download as well: Tips and Techniques, amd Video for Change. Recommended! - [Read more]

OneWorldTV has put together and excellent set of links to resources for producing documentary films which will help you to advocate or promote social change: from how-to websites with practical information, to collections of films or clips that you can often watch online. - [Read more]

n example of how NGOs can establish a common label to deliver advocacy products with a common voice, for increased effectiveness. Their common website, which lists all reports produced in a simple and clear way, makes their work more visible and accessible - no gizmos, just good content. Be sure to look at their constitution to see how to build such a mechanism. - [Read more]