Lobbying and Advocacy: Start Here
Welcome to the Lobbying & Advocacy topic in the Commons Social Change Library. This article guides you through a wide range of materials to inform the public in relation to lobbying, advocacy and policy-making.
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Evaluation
Beautiful Action Trainer Modules (BATMo): Resources for Nonviolent Action Trainers
People Power, Civil Resistance and Nonviolent Action NVA Trainers and Facilitators – Lists of training activities from Beautiful Trouble.
Before Action Reviews (BARs) and After Action Reviews (AARs)
Useful tools to help with planning and reflections in your campaigns – Before Action Reviews (BARs) and After Action Reviews (AARs).
Measuring Your Impact
How do you measure the impact of activism and advocacy work? Here are some ideas, resources and organisational examples to get you started.
Measuring What Matters: An Introduction to Project Evaluation for Not-for-profits
Programs that are evaluated give twice: 1st in the impact it has and 2nd in making it possible for you and others to do better next time.
Elections and Activism: Campaign Skills
This collection provides how-to guides and resources regarding the skills and tactics you’ll need to reach your goals in election time.
Campaign Monitoring and Evaluation: Measuring What Matters
How can we equip ourselves to design effective monitoring and evaluation approaches for campaigns, movement building and organising work?
Five Lessons from Fair Agenda’s Campaigns for Access to Abortion Care in Australia
Lessons learned from Fair Agenda’s campaigns on winning safe and legal access to abortion care in Australia.
Scaling Social Movements: An Overview
Summary of key resources about scaling – the process of increasing the size, strength, geographical reach, & impact of social movements.
ChangeMakers Organising School – Season Four, 2021 – How Small Groups Make Big Changes
ChangeMakers Organising School – Training (videos and slides) to connect and deepen knowledge to organise for social change.
All About Movements: Why Building Movements Creates Deeper Change
Why do movements matter? Why do we march on the streets or come together online? Great resource on movements and movement building.
Ending the Activist Year Well
After a big year of effort it’s important to take time for reflection, evaluation, team-building, celebration, and planning. These resources will help.
3 tools for advocacy evaluation
Links to useful resources in the area of advocacy, policy change, and social movement evaluation.
Tip: “You know nothing, campaigners”
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, the founder of SumOfUs and a keynote speaker at Progress 2015, gives a punchyy presentation about campaign evaluation.
3 Templates for Campaign Evaluation
Evaluating the impact of advocacy campaigns can seem impossible. Here are three handy guides that can help you undertake effective monitoring and evaluation of your advocacy and campaigning.