Are you working on initiatives, where you know that long term sustainable change and improvements for communities only come with a change in policy, legislation or public budget allocations? Have you already tried to engage with government entities, but experienced closed doors or a lack of follow up on commitments? Have you gathered strong data or evidence from your initiative on the need for changes to policy, legislation or budgets, but don't know how best to get across to decision makers? Would you like to strengthen the advocacy element of your current project or programme or include a strategic advocacy component in your next project or programme application?

Then this course is for you.

The course will take you through how to place advocacy strategically within your project/programme, how to analyze your audience and target your messages accordingly, how to develop a coherent advocacy plan, advocacy methods and how to chose relevant indicators for advocacy work and how to monitor them.

We will invite guest speakers to share inspiration on good advocacy work, the challenges they have faced and the results of their efforts.

The course is over three sessions:

Session 1 (20/5 '26): "Why advocate?"

Focus on:

• Why advocate?
• Defining your issue
• Stakeholder analysis

Session 2 (27/5 '26): "PLAN IT"

Focus on:

• Defining objectives
• What is you messeage?
• Defining target groups

Session 3: (4/3 '26): "DO IT"

Focus on:

• Approaches to Advocacy
• Creating 'Advocacy plans'

The course is in English and will take place over three online modules (two hour duration each). Participants are expected to work on assigned tasks within their project/programme before the first module and between the course modules, and will be supported to develop an advocacy plan for their project/programme - or to strengthen the plan, they already have in place.

Please note that at least one person from the Danish partner and one person from the local partner must sign up together.