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Pathfinder: A practical guide to advocacy evaluation (evaluator edition)
This guide is an introduction to advocacy evaluation from the evaluator’s perspective. It is will give you a sense of what is involved in advocacy evaluation and what the differences are between advocacy evaluation and other program evaluation.
Pathfinder: A practical guide to advocacy evaluation (funder edition)
This guide is an introduction to advocacy evaluation from the funder’s perspective. It is not a detailed how- to. Reading it will give you a sense of what is involved in advocacy evaluation, and what the differences are between advocacy evaluation and other types of...
Movement campaign template
We developed this template for the Australian climate movement in the mid 2000s and have used it with various campaigns networks. The template includes essential elements of strategy. Ideally co-developed.
‘Gandhi and beyond’ book review
Jason MacLeod’s review of David Cortright’s (2006) ‘Gandhi and Beyond’: Cortright offers a useful book for students and educators of nonviolent action. He provides a sensitive, sympathetic and critical overview of Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr....
Solar festivals and climate bills: Comparing NGO climate change campaigns in the UK and Australia
Nina Hall and Ros Taplin’s study compares climate change campaigns by selected environmental non-government organisations (NGOs) in the United Kingdom (UK) and Australia in 2006. It describes the variety of campaigns and examines the conditions under which...
Strategic planning template
This format has been used by medium-sized environment groups in their annual planning cycle. A simple table requiring vision, objectives, resources and performance indicators. The table is also useful for evaluation purposes.
Models of education
This document captures some key forms of education: facilitation, training, conscientisation in an attempt to differentiate between them.
Strategic planning template
This format has been used by medium-sized environment groups in their annual planning cycle. A simple table requiring vision, objectives, resources and performance indicators. The table is also useful for evaluation purposes.
Learning together for critical consciousness: Clare and Ack’s popular education zine
Designed for a one-day workshop on popular education for people who have an active interest in social change – educators, facilitators, community workers, researchers, campaigners, artists…
Courses with EarthCare Education
EarthCare Education focuses on Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning, the holistic learning methodology pioneered by Robin Clayfield and friends over the past twenty years.
Debating Tactics: Remember to ask ‘What works?’
Stonewall, Cochabamba Water War, anti-apartheid defiance campaign, Tahrir Square 2011, anti-nuclear demos, the 1980s Central America solidarity movement, Gandhian salt march. In my estimation, every single one of these was successful, which raises the question of what...
Community Organising Doorknocking Game
An interactive on-line game from the US that takes you through the steps involved in doorknocking as a community organising tactic. The steps include: assessing a home from outside, getting in the door, breaking the ice, explaining the organisation…
Community Toolbox
The Community Tool Box is the world’s largest resource for free information on essential skills for building healthy communities. It offers over 7,000 pages of practical guidance in creating change and developing community.
Community organizing and strategic communications
The SPIN Academy offers a broad range of resources to grow the communications capacity of your organization. We provide these online resources free of charge to introduce you to the basics of strategic communications.
Consensus decision making
Excellent resource on consensus, with names for all the non-unanimity gestures including “twinkly fingers”
Community organizers handbook
Local organizers are passionate people who see the value in connecting networks and groups for more collaboration on a local and global scale. Many organizers say that they find new work and new projects, meet new contacts and grow a larger network, as well as have...