Dear colleagues

Hope this email finds you well. I am in the process of putting together a workshop programme for 4 days to training a National Disability Umbrella body on advocating for the human rights of people with disabilities. The key objective of this training is for the delegates to be able to design and develop their own advocacy strategy in line with their organizational strategy. If there is anyone out there with some training material that could be useful to me, could you kindly share them with me.

The content is as follows:

POLICY ANALYSIS

¨ Introduction to the concept and practice of Public/ Social policy.

¨ Policy development processes

¨ Analysis of key stakeholders in Policy Design and implementation- roles of NGOs, Public Sector, Civil Society and Private sector.

¨ Policy enforcement and failure

¨ Policy environment and other regulatory framework

¨ Policy, Practice, Ideas and Beliefs and Implications to development policy.

ADVOCACY

¨ Introduction to the Concept and Practice of Advocacy

¨ Analysis of at least 3 successful and failed Advocacy campaigns

(Local, regional and Global)

¨ Social mobilisation, Lobbying, and Campaigns.

¨ Working with the Media in Advocacy: a practical guide

¨ Designing advocacy strategies & materials

¨ Understanding your Target: Principles of Target analysis for effective communication in Advocacy.

- Research, Documentation and Evidence Building for advocacy

The whole idea is to empower this umbrella body to come up with an advocacy strategy of their own that suits their needs.

Therefore any training manuals and powerpoint presentations to this effect will be greatly appreciated.

Regards

Tsitsi

Dr Tsitsi Chataika (Senior Lecturer)
Department of Educational Foundations
University of Zimbabwe
Faculty of Education
P.O. Box MP167, Mt Pleasant
Harare, Zimbabwe
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http://uz-ac.academia.edu/TsitsiChataika

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