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 …
Tag: campaigning
Digital advocacy
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 …
Future story video
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 …
Impact in Honduras
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 …
My first international assignment
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 …
Something different
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 …
Campaigning and service delivery
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …