Monitoring and Evaluating Advocacy
Whenever I have run a training session on advocacy campaigning, I have felt a loss of energy and momentum when I have turned to the subject of monitoring and evaluation. As an activist, very often training a room full of fellow activists, I am most interested in sharing the tools that will encourage people to […]
Letter published in Third Sector 17th January 2012
To hear it click: http://bit.ly/AjF6uF To read it….. here it is: Cathy Pharoah is correct in noting in her article “Charities can make a difference…” when she says that “…there are signs that the sector is increasingly rediscovering the power of advocacy” Charities despite smaller budgets are realising they can get a better return on […]
It’s a 5 horse race – 4 months to go to the General Election
As a former local Councillor, I’m used to regularly delivering leaflets saying “It’s a Two Horse Race” with a cheesy pencil drawing of racehorses and claims that it’s between our party and the main other party. Making out it’s going to be close, even if the end result is a 20-30% difference in the votes. […]
Supporting Advocacy in East Africa
I am just back from a week in Dar es Salaam, where I was running an advocacy workshop for an INGO and its partners across East Africa. We had eight nations represented from across the region. This workshop was following on a year after a similar workshop I had run for their Asian region in […]
Mariam Kemple
Whilst Campaigns and Advocacy Manager at Crisis Action Apart from your current organisation which other organisations that campaign do you admire and why? I’ve recently been inspired by the entire campaigning sector following the collective work we’ve all been doing in response to the ‘Gagging Law’. As someone who has a lot of experience […]
Head of Resources and Enterprises – Full-Time, permanent £40k – Margate, East Kent
Since 2011, the Turner Contemporary has been one of Kent’s, the south-east’s and Britain’s most exciting assets in the visual arts scene. This role requires a driven person with passion and a commitment to contemporary arts. Also, the individual needs the skills and abilities to fully utilise the assets of the gallery – the spaces, the […]
Where is Sombath?
Something a bit different for this blog…… I recently spent some time working in Bangladesh running an advocacy training course, and met some people from Laos. They informed me of the disappearance of Sombath Somphone back in 2012. Sombath is a respected community leader in Laos. He has not been heard from since his disappearance. […]
Building a movement
In recent years I have increasingly heard people talking about movements in the context of campaigning. Not content just with an organisation or individuals seeking to run a campaign, a wider more ambitious aspiration can emerge to build a movement pushing for change. Influenced no doubt by the experience across the Atlantic in the US […]
What MPs want?
I’ve just read a study on MPs’ views on charities’ actions by nfpSynergy. Given that it took 3 individuals to email 154 MPs how acceptable it was to for charities to undertake the 6 different activities listed below it left me a bit cold. Especially as the report was given such an ostentatious and grandiose […]
Political Education
Recently I ran Bond’s UK Corridors of Power course. I always enjoy this course as it combines a lot of theory around government and parliament in the UK with meetings with MPs, officials and NGO staff. At the end of the last course, one of the delegates said to me that even with a degree […]