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 …
Tag: campaigning
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 …
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, …