How to be effectively accountable for our advocacy work AGENDA

Charter Members’ Workshop 2013
How to be effectively accountable for our advocacy work
Brussels, 28-29 November
AGENDA
Thursday, 28 November
Strict Chatham House Rules apply
12:30 – 13:00 Sandwiches and coffee
13:00 – 13:15 Welcome, introductions, aims of workshop
Karenina Schröder, Project
Director, INGO Charter
13:15 – 14:00 Challenges and opportunities: CSO advocacy
work today and tomorrow
Joss Saunders, General
Counsel, Oxfam GB
14:00 – 15:00 What are the key drivers to improve our accountability and hence quality of CSO advocacy work?
Based on information collected prior to workshop.
(Group work)
Hand-out by Adam Short,
Head of Advocacy, Plan
International
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16:30 Role play debate with guest challenging us on
- the legitimacy of CSO advocacy work
- the effectiveness of CSO advocacy work
Gie Goris, Chief Editor,
MO*magazine – Mondiaal
Nieuws
16:30 – 18:30 Oxfam International
How to be effectively accountable for strategic
choices in our accountability work?
Celine Charveriat, Director
Advocacy and Campaigns
Oxfam International
Amnesty International
Tensions between legitimacy and effectiveness
in a membership driven accountability approach
Claire Doube, Director
Strategy and Evaluation,
Amnesty International
10-15 minutes presentation each; followed by 30
minutes discussion / Short break in between.
18:30 – 19:00 What is the net difference between accountability for advocacy and other CSO work?
19:30
Ramesh Singh, COO,
Greenpeace International
Joint dinner
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Friday, 29 November
09:00 – 09:15
Comments on 1st day / Expectations on 2nd
(tbd)
09:15 – 10:15
Measuring the effectiveness of advocacy
work: Tools that have and have not worked
for Transparency International
Casey Kelso, Head of
advocacy, Transparency
International
10:15 – 11:45
How to ensure meaningful constituent
involvement in all phases of advocacy work?
Presentation and discussion.
David Bonbright, Executive
Director, Keystone
11:45 – 12:00
Break
12:00 – 13:00
Group 1:
Accountability for campaigns: Building poor
people’s agency and power
Group 2:
Challenges of internally accounting for the
effects of advocacy work
Laura Sullivan, Europe
Advocacy Coordinator,
ActionAid
Cheryl Freeman, Senior
Director Advocacy
World Vision International
Two parallel groups with presentations of 15
minutes followed by questions and discussion.
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 15:00
Group 1:
Accountability for EU lobbying: Driving the
effectiveness of CBM’s advocacy work
Catherine Naughton, Director
International Advocacy, CBM
Group 2:
How to bridge the tension between global
agenda setting power and local
accountability?
Amanda Lundy, Advocacy
Advisor, Plan International
Two parallel groups with presentations of 15
minutes followed by questions and discussion.
Elizabeth Kurian, Director of
Global Advocacy,
Sightsavers
15:00 – 16:30
16:30
Is there an added value in devising collective
Charter Member accountability positions on
advocacy work? If so - what do they have to
include and how to present this at the next AGM?
Joss Saunders, General
Counsel, Oxfam GB
What can the Charter do to support its Members’
accountability for advocacy going forward?
Karenina Schröder, Project
Director, INGO Charter
End
International NGO Charter of Accountability Ltd · www.ingoaccountabilitycharter.org · +49 30 20 62 46 97 12
Company Number: 6527022 · Registered in England at Oxfam International, Suite 20, 266 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7DL, UK
Secretariat: International Civil Society Centre · www.icscentre.org · Agricolastraße 26 · 10555 Berlin, Germany