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ADVOCACY AND SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY TOOLBOX
This toolbox gives activists, advocates and development practitioners some critical and tested concepts, strategies, and processes that can enrich your advocacy campaigns and social accountability initiatives.
Joachim Schwarz
5 min read
An Introduction to Social Accountability: Why is it important and how can we improve it?
Social accountability refers to the extent and capacity of citizens to hold the state and service providers accountable and make them...
Joachim Schwarz
6 min read
Think, feel, and act rights-based
Frankly, it took me decades to embrace a rights-based approach. And when I first heard about the approach back in 2003, I thought: “Really?
Joachim Schwarz
5 min read
The Service Assessment Diamond: A simple visual framework for analysis
The service assessment diamond is a simple framework to assess and monitor public services and schemes such as health services, education...
Tereza Kaplan
6 min read
Outcome Mapping: An actor-based planning and monitoring tool for Social Accountability and Advocacy
Outcome mapping is a participatory planning, monitoring, and evaluation method that focuses on behavior change as the most useful result...
Tereza Kaplan
10 min read
Outcome Harvesting: A monitoring & evaluation method for Social Accountability and Advocacy
Outcome harvesting is a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) method that allows us to retrospectively determine changes achieved and the project’
Joachim Schwarz
6 min read
The Advocacy Canvas - An analysis and planning overview for advocacy campaigns
Log-frame, theory of change, impact chain, business plan, or business model canvas: for projects or businesses a series of standard tools...
Retta Menberu
5 min read
Advocacy Planning: Developing and prioritizing advocacy issues
What is an advocacy issue? An advocacy issue is a problem or need that is closely connected to policy or the implementation or enforcement.
Joachim Schwarz
3 min read
35 Strategy Options for Your Advocacy Campaign: Get inspired by IMPACT CARDS
Our subset of 35 cards is part of the IMPACT CARDS, a combination game and social change methodology to explore a 100,000 ways to change...
Sohini Paul
5 min read
Going to Court: Legal Advocacy
For nearly every social movement, law is an indispensable tool for advocates. It may include legal advice, legal rights booklets for citizen
Sohini Paul
3 min read
Advocacy Strategies: Charismatic leaders and influencers
Charismatic leaders are driven by their conviction and commitment to their cause and have a clear vision. They are usually very thoughtful..
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