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SHARING OUR EXPERIENCES IN ADVOCACY

SHARING OUR EXPERIENCES IN ADVOCACY. Facilitator: Limbani Nsapato Coalitions meeting, Rosebank , 13 April 2011. OUTLINE. Stories of advocacy Definitions and strategies Key Elements.

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SHARING OUR EXPERIENCES IN ADVOCACY

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  1. SHARING OUR EXPERIENCES IN ADVOCACY Facilitator: Limbani Nsapato Coalitions meeting, Rosebank, 13 April 2011

  2. OUTLINE • Stories of advocacy • Definitions and strategies • Key Elements

  3. IDENTIFYING ADVOCACY STORIES: WHICH ONE IS ADVOCACY AND WHY? If Not, how can it be changed to be a story for advocacy? Story One: • The Coalition in Namibia during an Education conference in June 2011 organizes a forum where Coalition officials present findings from an MOE Commissioned research about the sad situation of girls education.

  4. IDENTIFYING ADVOCACY STORIES: WHICH ONE IS ADVOCACY AND WHY? If Not, how can it be changed to be a story for advocacy? Story Two • The Coalition in Swaziland, SWANCEFA mobilizes students, NGO leaders, parents and the media to break all classroom windows for an urban school in Manzini in order to convince Ministry of Education to build more classroom blocks for a rural school in the outskirts of Manzini.

  5. IDENTIFYING ADVOCACY STORIES: WHICH ONE IS ADVOCACY AND WHY? Story Three • The National Coordinator of EPT Angola during a CONFINTEA VII Meeting in Brazil singlehandedly presents a petition signed by 20,00 EPT illiterate adults but ignored by 40% of EPT Members to influence delegates to adopt a legally binding convention for all countries to allocate 6% of the education budget for Adult Literacy .

  6. BRAINSTORMING: ADVOCACY DEFINITIONS & STRATEGIES In groups, based on experiences from countries: • Define advocacy • Identify an advocacy issue from the country. • For the issue • Identify one key advocacy strategy and • For the strategy, identify two advocacy activities. • Identify advocacy targets. • Identify advocacy allies.

  7. KEY ELEMENTS OF ADVOCAY CAMPAIGNS (From AA Education Financing Toolkit) • Identify campaign issue • Develop campaign goal (the change we want)-to be subjected to a SWOT analysis. Examples of goals (adapted from toolkit): • The government allocates and spends at least 20% of the national budget to education by 2013 • Barriers to teacher recruitment are removed by 2012 so that minimum teacher pupil ratio is met by 2015 • Identify Targets & Allies, who can make a difference • Build partnerships, alliances and networks • Plan the Campaign (develop objectives, tactics/strategies, activities) • Develop Key message and how to get the message across • Action Planning (Matrix of: objectives, strategies, targets, activities, allies/partners, resources budget, who is responsible, delivery date, outcomes and success indicators) • Monitoring and evaluating the success of the campaign.

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