advocacy evaluation
online resources to draw on in evaluating advocacy and campaigns
The ‘Never Evers’ Of Workshop Facilitation
Experience and research indicate certain things that a facilitator should never do during a workshop. Peggy Sharp (National Staff Development Council)presents an overview of these in this article.
People bring numbers, time and skills
Handout with information from the CANVAS Core Curriculum to be utilised within the Mind map: Preparing for recruiting activity.
Supported living campaign: Autonomy and control by people with disability and their famlies
Belinda Epstein-Frisch describes a campaign that reframed ‘supported accommodation’ where people were allocated a bed in a group facility to ‘supported living’ where people had the right to determine how they live, with whom they live, who...
Assessing advocacy
Justin Whelan (2006). Extracts from ‘Work Justice’, a case study of the campaign by Uniting Justice to influence Industrial Relations legislation in Australia.
A permaculture model for sustainable land use and appropriate technologies in central Brazil
The audacious sustainable work strategy was to teach and learn by doing. The organisation’s prolific allies span from national policy makers to children and international foundations. IPEC provides a rough model that, once well groomed, could operate coherently...
What is strategy
An experiential exercise to clarify the difference between goals, tactics and strategy.
Student environmentalism: shifting winds
Holly Kemp’s insider perspective on Australian student environmental activism during a time of major change.
Protecting Pooh Corner
Nikki Parker and Simon Birrell (2007) describe the Friends of Pooh Corner campaign to stop private developers taking over ownership of an area valued by the local community. The short and successful campaign led to the area being managed as a bushland reserve for...
Reflecting on lessons learned
A tool to encourage and share participants’ self-reflection and work with others.
Recruitment workshop
A workshop for developing a shared framework of recruitment and recruiting skills, and an understanding of the importance of these in building a social movement.
Aquarius Rising: Terania Creek and the Australian forest protest movement
Vanessa Bible’s thesis on how the Terania Native Forest Action Group formed in 1974 and challenged the NSW Forestry Commission’s plans for Terania Creek in any conceivable way they could. What unfolded was a natural and spontaneous response Ð a direct...
PNG Forests: Campaigning to stop illegal logging
Cassie McMahon’s case study of Greenpeace’s campaign to stop illegal logging in Papua New Guinea.
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.