Going on a fishing trip
I’ve recently been doing some work supporting a group in Kenya to develop an advocacy campaign, and I heard myself encouraging them to go on a fishing trip. What did I mean by that? Well, we had spent a lot …
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Change the future story
I’ve recently been working ‘in’ Sierra Leone, and I recently met up with colleagues, who urgently told me that they needed to change the future story. We’ve been working well together discussing a common approach to advocacy campaigning, and agreeing …
Developing a future story in Liberia
I recently ran a workshop session for two INGOs to help them in developing a future story in Liberia. They were looking to launch a new report as the catalyst for a new piece of advocacy around food security and …
Inspired by a future story
Over the past few months, I’ve been supporting a number of groups around the world to develop their theory of change, or future story, for their campaign. In both Tajikistan and Ukraine, I’ve been supporting coalitions of parents’ groups initially …
An alternative approach to M&E
Last month I was invited to speak on a panel at a meeting of advocacy campaigners from across MSF worldwide on my approach to M&E. I found this invitation really timely in encouraging me to document my more recent thinking …
Client list
I was looking at a colleague’s website the other day, and was very taken by his client list. Since 2004, I have worked for a variety of clients both in the UK and internationally. I am now one client shy …
Confidence and Humility
Over the past few months in the advocacy training that I have been running across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, I found myself focusing on two words: confidence and humility. I found that having done an initial training in advocacy, …
2020 visitors
I’ve just had the report through for my 2020 visitors to this site. Over the past 12 months there were over 1,000 visitors from 88 countries! While maybe not too surprisingly over half of these visitors came from the UK, …
Speaking with impact online
It is only a couple of months since I published my new book on public speaking, and I am already thinking that it needs a new chapter – speaking with impact online. When I wrote my latest book, I was …
Campaigning is a global language
Over the last few days I have run a couple of webinars which have shown me, if I needed showing, that campaigning is a global language. The webinars were held with colleagues in Tajikistan and Ukraine. Both sessions were follow …