Recently I had the good fortune to be asked to be involved in the assessment for ESRC grant funding for their forced displacement research programme. I did start this assessment with, I must confess, the view that the majority of …
Reflecting on my last blog post made me think of a quote that I have started using in my campaign training. “No battle plan ever survives the first contact with the enemy.” This great line is credited to Helmut von …
I’ve just come back from Lima where I was running a training workshop for NGOs from Bolivia, Haiti, Honduras, Guatemala as well as Peru. I’ve done training courses across the world but not before with Spanish translation. So I was somewhat …
Several years ago I was due to run a campaigns workshop in Thailand, and the organiser contacted me to say that they were hoping to combine my sessions with training on story telling and wondered if I felt that this …
One thing that I have been thinking a lot about recently is how you go about reporting on your campaign progress. How should you go about this when you are asked for your targets or for your key performance indicators? …
I led some training in Switzerland recently for the Sheila McKechnie Foundation and met a great campaigner – Peter Metzinger – a former campaigns director of Greenpeace and author of the intriguing book: The AC/DC Strategy – Rock ‘n’ Roll …
I did a blog recently for National City of Sanctuary, the movement to welcome asylum seekers and refugees, in the run-up to their AGM in Cardiff this month – Lets unite and speak out against the injustices to build an inclusive …
Last week was Refugee Week across the UK where we come together across the country to celebrate the great contribution that refugees have made to our country. I started the week in Oxford where there was an innovative conference, from …
Earlier this month I ran a two day advocacy training workshop in Prague for the country directors of PIN, People in Need, the Czech based international NGO. If you haven’t heard of PIN before they are well worth checking out …
