The Advocacy Center is dedicated to enhance citizens and community influence in the process of policy creation and decision making.
The Advocacy Centers’ team believes that the citizens’ organizations and the citizens are the only ones who truly know the real conditions in society and that they are the key factor which should participate in the policy creation and decision making processes.
That`s why, the Center supports their ideas and initiatives through advocating for them and speaks up for their efforts to reach their goals.
We believe that the best results are achieved by learning through new joint experiences and exchange of good practices, and by investing in citizens and their skills, knowledge and power.
The goal of the Advocacy Center is to contribute towards more informed and active citizens and towards sustained community participation in the policy creation and decision making processes.
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Key elements of advocacy are actually the necessary characteristics which should be a part of your advocacy activities. Numerous experiences of the organizations that work in the field of advocacy, as well as the experience of the organizations that study the advocacy process world wide, allow us to differentiate several key elements…
This post is an extract from the Advocacy Manual which was produced by the Advocacy Centers` team and which can be obtained on the Centers web page soon.
Generally, the advocacy as a process can produce three types of results:Change in policies or practices, change in the system and democratic change.
The second module of the training for trainers on Developing and Implementation of advocacy campaigns was held on the 5th, 6th and 7th of July in Skopje. The focus of this second module of the training was set on detailed revision, analysis and practical development of each of the steps that every advocacy campaign should contain.
Through intensive practical and group work, the participants were able to develop their initiatives and proposal for advocating into real and original advocacy campaigns.
The first module of the training for trainers on Developing and Implementation of advocacy campaigns was held on 24th and 25th of June 2010, by the Advocacy Center…
