Nicolas Dupic is an MDF trainer/consultant and he works on a large EU-funded programme called the EU Aid Volunteers initiative. Last May, Nicolas was a mentor of a fantastic group of candidate volunteers trained in The Netherlands and in this interview he offers an insight into the two-week training.
Would you like to gain a better grip on the evaluations of your advocacy programmes? Advocacy approaches are peculiar in many ways, which makes evaluating them challenging. Ewoud Plate – trainer of the new Evaluating Advocacy and Policy Influencing course – shares some nuggets of wisdom that can help you to conduct your evaluations better.
Would you wish for more grip on the evaluations of your advocacy programmes? Advocacy approaches are peculiar in many ways, and this makes evaluating them challenging. Ewoud Plate, trainer of the new Evaluating Advocacy and Policy Influencing course, shares nuggets of wisdom on a weekly basis that can help you conducting your evaluations better.
Stakeholders can kill a programme, or make it succeed. Making sense of their interests is essential to improving the effectiveness of development programs. With the "Stakeholder Analysis 2.0" you can advance your understanding of stakeholder behaviour by considering stakeholders as political agents within their own environment.
The course Advocacy and Policy Influencing has been running successfully for years now as influencing decision-makers has never been more relevant. But measuring the results of your advocacy program is a whole other level. Approaches used for advocacy and policy influencing are indirect in reaching development goals, so it is not always easy to prove that your advocacy activity has actually been effective. So a new course has been launched to help you evaluating your advocacy programmes.