Influencing Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Book

Narrative Power and Collective Action: Conversations with people working to change narratives for social good – Part 2

21/10/2020

3 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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Deeply held 'truths' are coming undone at the seams. As movements across the globe are challenging 'normal', more and more people are looking for new narratives. Narratives are a form a power, made up of many, many, stories, not always written, made up of online content, offline conversations. They are not something that happens over there, they […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Influencing for Impact Guide: How to deliver effective influencing strategies

15/09/2020

3 documents

81 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Oxfam’s Influencing for Impact Guide is designed for civil society organizations, Oxfam teams and partners, activists and campaigners. It aims to support them to develop and deliver effective influencing, advocacy and campaigning strategies that tackle the structural causes of poverty, inequality and environmental crisis: strategies with impact to help shift unequal and unjust power relations, […]

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Book

Beating the Drum: Stories of influencing networks

23/07/2020

2 documents

138 pages long

Languages: English

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‘Beating the Drum: Stories of Influencing Networks’ is a collection of stories about influencing networks working in a variety of thematic fields. It narrates the experiences of nine networks that work on issues such as land rights, the abolition of nuclear arms, animal rights and having more women in the police force. Targeting decision-makers at […]

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Book

Narrative Power and Collective Action: Conversations with people working to change narratives for social good – Part 1

08/07/2020

3 documents

66 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Narratives are a form of power that can mobilize and connect, as well as divide and isolate. Social, public or dominant narratives help to legitimize existing power relationships, prop them up or make them seem natural. As an anthology of perspectives this knowledge offering is one way to amplify different and diverse ways of knowing […]

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Case study

Incidencia y co-creación de proyectos de ley de juventud: Bolivia

01/05/2020

2 documents

10 pages long

Languages: French, Spanish

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El estudio de caso analiza los resultados y aprendizajes de un proyecto de partici-pación ciudadana juvenil apoyado por Oxfam en Bolivia. El análisis lleva a dos conclusiones principales. Por un lado, la importancia de institucionalizar la partici-pación y representación de las y los jóvenes en los procesos de toma de decisión en el desarrollo local. […]

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Case study

Activismo juvenil contra la desigualdades: Peru

01/05/2020

3 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Este estudio de caso visibiliza los alcances y lecciones aprendidas del modelo de incidencia juvenil promovido por Oxfam en Perú en dos proyectos: “Escuela: de la Protesta a la Propuesta” del Foro Juvenil de Izquierda (FJI) y “Jóvenes 2018-19” de la Red Interquorum (Red IQ). Estos proyectos proporcionan interesantes perspectivas en cuanto a la importancia […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Planning Research for Influencing Diagram

13/05/2019

4 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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This diagram is designed to help to you plan research for influencing. It will help you to think through what you are trying to influence with evidence, who you are trying to influence and how, how to focus your research, which approaches will be most effective, and how to engage audiences to maximise influence. You […]

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Case study

Youth Bill of Law in Bolivia: How Empowering Youth as Active Citizens Can Contribute to Political Advocacy

01/04/2019

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

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Bolivia’s constitutional reform of 2009 allows the different levels of government (municipalities and departments) to develop their own legislation related to social and economic development. Taking advantage of this change, youth organisations in the municipalities of El Alto and Sucre, and in the department of Tarija, decided to work together to influence local laws that […]

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Case study

Oxfam in Ghana: Improved fiscal governance through active citizenship

19/03/2019

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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In Ghana, citizen engagement is central to improving the government’s transparency and accountability. To get young citizens to engage in influencing policy change, the key to success has been music and culture. Through conversations online and offline, including with Ghanaian musicians and celebrities, youth are informed and encouraged to vote in a government that would […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Oxfam’s Guide to Feminist Influencing

07/03/2019

3 documents

49 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The Oxfam guide to feminist influencing is designed to help Oxfam staff apply feminist principles and practices to campaigning (including digital and public campaigns), policy, advocacy and influencing. It will help us translate “putting women’s rights at the heart of all we do” into clear simple steps, ideas and actions, with an emphasis on transforming […]

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