Climate refugees?
Over the past few months I have been doing some work for a global organisation working to support refugees to help them think through some of the advocacy angles around the challenge of climate change. This is a really important …
Tackling injustice and supporting others
Over the past few months I have been doing some work for a global organisation working to support refugees to help them think through some of the advocacy angles around the challenge of climate change. This is a really important …
The final issue which we explored at the recent Helvetas workshop in Northern Macedonia with colleagues from across the Balkans was digital advocacy campaigns. In this short video, I offer some reflections on some simple principles for effective advocacy campaigns …
Late last year I had the good fortune to travel out to Lake Ohrid in North Macedonia to support a regional advocacy workshop run by the Swiss INGO, Helvetas. This regional network had been running for several years and was …
Firstly, I’d like to wish all the readers of my blog a happy New Year! I can only wish that we all have a better year and that travel once again becomes a possibility for those of us who can …
I’m just back from my first international assignment in a while. I had the pleasure of working in Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia supporting an advocacy network across the Western Balkans. There was a focus on three key areas: Firstly, we …
Over the last year I have had the opportunity to do something different in my training. I was asked by NCVO to deliver one day of their five day charity management awareness course. The course is run for military personnel …
I’ve done a few assignments recently with the dilemma of campaigning and service delivery has come up. You know this dilemma – an organisation asks should they be providing direct services to people or should they be campaigning? And this issue …
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 …
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 …
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 …