Advocacy Training

This course is for advocacy practitioners, decision-makers and anyone who wants to know more about advocacy in SIL’s context.

By the end of this course, we hope that you will:

• Understand the principles of advocacy

• Have reviewed key issues around which SIL’s advocacy commonly takes place

• Understand the importance of developing alliances and collaborative advocacy, and how to do it

• Be able to participate in professional conferences and effectively network

• Be able to plan and execute advocacy activities on selected issues within your context

In this course, you will be introduced to information about advocacy through a series of online modules. Each module contains assignments for you to complete. You will need to identify a mentor to help you work through the material. This mentor does not need to be an advocacy expert (though it would help if they understood basic advocacy concepts). Rather, your mentor should be someone trustworthy that you feel comfortable talking to about what you’re learning. Your mentor will review your written assignments and give you feedback. For most of the written assignments, you can input your answers directly into the module, and then share those answers with your mentor by printing out the summary pages at the end of each module.

Your registration fee will give you access to the course material for a year.

Course fee: $15 SIL staff, $25 WGA (or other partner) staff

Course contents:

1. Advocacy principles and practices

2. The advocacy cycle

3. Advocacy in SIL

4. Advocacy research

5. The role of alliances in advocacy work

6. The role of networking in advocacy

7. Dealing with challenges in advocacy

8. SIL perspectives on current issues in language and development

To register, contact HubTraining_Intl@sil.org.