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The Change Agency website is a large and growing library of more than 3000 activist education resources. Most activists and organisers are literally drowning in extraneous information and pressed for time, so it’s crucial that we can quickly find just the information we need. There are three ways to find just what you’re looking for…
The International Centre on Nonviolent Conflict have now posted five critically acclaimed documentary films on civil resistance on their website, in English as well as translated into over 20 languages. Originally available only on DVD or videocassette, and shown in hundreds of screenings in over 25 countries, the films can now be viewed freely, worldwide. The films are: A Force More Powerful; Bringing Down a Dictator; Orange Revolution: Confronting the Truth; and Egypt: Revolution Interrupted?
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This role play activity, developed by the Centre for Australian Progress, is an interactive workshop to help people experience a political lobbying meeting in a light-hearted way. The role play involves people being from either the Minister for Magical Creatures, or the NGO “Unicorn Revive”. People have the experience of planning a delegation meeting (if from the NGO) or of planning how to handle an NGO delegation (if from the Minister’s office).
Visit LinkWhat interim outcomes or smaller changes do you expect you’ll need to achieve along the road to achieving your campaign objective? A critical path can help keep your team focused. Here’s an MS Word template to fast-track the process of creating your campaign’s critical path analysis.
People with obvious and not-so-obvious disabilities need accommodation in order to participate fully. As a presenter, you may or may not be aware of a participant’s need for accommodations. In addition to accommodating the accessibility needs of participants who request them, you are urged to follow these 15 basic accessibility guidelines for every workshop activity.
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Theory of Change Online (TOCO) is the only web-based software (no download required) that you can use to design and edit and store your Theory of Change, learn the concepts of theory of change, and capture your outcomes, indicators, rationales and assumptions in an interactive graphical environment.
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People act on the basis of their understanding of how the world works – their ‘theories of action’. We do X because we believe, based on past experience or what we’ve read, that Y will happen. This applies to projects and programs as well. So it follows that if you can improve a project’s theories of action you can improve how people implement it (project is used here to mean both project and program). This has long been recognized by a particular branch of evaluation, called program theory evaluation, which describes projects’ theories of action in a ‘logic model’ and then evaluates the project using the model as a framework.
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At the Democracy Center, for nearly 25 years we have worked to support people all across the world with one area of activism especially – advocacy. That is a word with many different meanings. Most of all it means to have a specific objective in mind – passing a law or blocking one, demanding action from a community or a corporation, become an advocate for some specific vision and working with others to achieve it. Its targets can include Presidents and city councilors, billionaires and CEOs. Advocacy’s tools are diverse as well – research and protest, lobbying and grassroots organizing, media work and coalition building, and a lot more. Its practitioners range from young people taking action for the first time to long-time veterans who sit at the head of formidable organizations.
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The People Power manual has been written primarily for educators, trainers and facilitators who are looking for processes to use in their activist education work. The first two volumes focus on Campaign Strategy and Community Organising, with dozens of participatory and experiential processes and handouts. Volume 3 (due out late 2020) focuses on Civil Resistance. Available in hard copy (print) and digital (download) formats.
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‘How to’ guides for campaigners, organisers and activist educators.
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