This course is currently fully booked however there is a waiting list. Spaces are available in July.

*Residential, includes: 4 nights accommodation, all meals for the duration of the course, course fees and materials.

**Non-residential, includes: lunch and refreshments for the duration of the course, course fees and materials

Course content and objectives

This popular and successful course gives participants a thorough understanding of how to influence the policy making process in their own context. You will learn skills to help you formulate and plan effective advocacy strategies. Enhance your ability to lobby decision makers, and gain confidence in the ways in which you relate to them – give new life to your advocacy work!

• Identify different approaches to advocacy and the values and strategies that underlie them
• Understand the stages of the advocacy planning cycle and how to build an advocacy strategy
• Analyse the external environment and policy processes in order to identify appropriate ‘levers of influence’  Examine what makes lobbying successful 
• Explore best practice in campaigning to reaching a wider audience and how to relate to the media with more confidence 
• Review methods for monitoring and evaluating advocacy initiatives.

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