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 well established, and Helvetas wanted me to...
I was delighted to see recently that the Climate Centre has published online an international advocacy toolkit. I worked on this toolkit for the International Federation of the Red Cross/ Red Crescent back in 2017. The advocacy toolkit is available in two...
I’ve just come back from running an advocacy workshop for the Red Cross in Nepal, and I know that I have written about this before, but I am yet further enthused that advocating or campaigning for change is one vital part of our common and shared humanity. Despite...
I’m just back from running an advocacy campaigns workshop for the International Federation of the Red Cross/ Red Crescent Societies in Hungary for national societies working across the Balkans and Central Asia. As ever my approach is always to try to de-mystify the...
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 – they were set up by student leaders...