advocacy evaluation
online resources to draw on in evaluating advocacy and campaigns
Anti freeway campaign: long term movement building
Community organising case study of a campaign to prevent freeway construction in an inner-city park. Written in 2003 by tCA member James Whelan.
Larry Olds’ philosophy of education
Developed by Larry Olds, this matrix compares traditional education, humanistic education and education for liberation.
Advocacy evaluation: Review and opportunities
Justin Whelan reviews the emerging literature in this field, noting the points of convergence and divergence and suggesting some limitations of the frameworks and opportunities for effective evaluation that meets the needs of interest groups.
Review Tools
Tools and games to assist participants’ learning through recall, ensure core proficiencies have been covered, and review major lessons and insights.
Sample workshop schedule: Recruiting
A sample agenda for a workshop aimed at building skills and confidence to recruit others into a social movement.
It’s only a garden
Jason MacLeod & Catherine Byrne 2013 > What happens when a local council-funded community engagement and development process ends up being actively opposed by a local councillor? What is the role for community development practitioners and community devel
Cape York Wilderness Campaign
Liliana Williamson’s case study of conservation campaigns in far north Queensland: “To influence political processes a ‘social movement organisation’ uses either or both unconventional methods – direct actions to increase awareness about an issue, – or...
Critical path analysis
A critical path charts a sequence of outcomes or changes that are necessary between where we are (here and now) and the resolution of the problem we’re campaigning to solve. This tool helps campaigners to articulate their assumptions about how the intended...
Political opportunity structure: Analysis toward strategy
Randy Stoecker’s political opportunity structure helps community organisers to think through strategy on a spectrum of confrontation to consensus.
Free at Last: The Struggle for Independence in East Timor
In May 2002, Xanana Gusmao was sworn in as President and East Timor became world’s newest nation. Jason MacLeod’s case study explores the resistance movement and its strategy.
Understanding the experiential learning cycle
These different types of questions correspond to the stages of the experiential learning cycle. This resource is a useful guide for educators preparing workshop discussion prompts.
People sized strategy board game
Introduces participants to lobbying in an experiential way by drawing on existing experience, incorporating role play, and identifying lobbying as one of many tools and techniques for change.
Benchmarking evaluation in foundations: Do we know what we are doing?
Much like the discipline of evaluation itself, the evaluation function in philanthropy with staff assigned to evaluation-related responsibilities is a fairly recent phenomenon…
Wildlife Advocates
Monica Alba Murillo’s case study of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland.
Cutting the issue
It’s next to impossible to make a difference on a huge problem. How you ‘cut’ the problem into issues will influence your prospects of success, and the consequent impact. What parts of the problem (and the solution) are amenable to your...