Regional Capacity Building Workshop on Advocacy for Realising Child Rights B Y: N E H A B H A N D A R I R E V I E W E D B Y: D AV I D C O H E N Regional Capacity Building Workshop on Advocacy for Realising Child Rights B Y: N E H A B H A N D A R I R E V I E W E D B Y: D AV I D C O H E N January 2005 Kathmandu, Nepal The vision Save the Children works for: - a world which respects and values each child - a world which listens to children and learns - a world where all children have hope and opportunity The mission Save the Children fights for children’s rights. We deliver immediate and lasting improvements to children’s lives worldwide. © 2006 Save the Children Sweden This publication is protected by copyright. It may be reproduced by any method without fee or prior permission for teaching purposes, but not for resale. For use in any other circumstances, prior written permission must be obtained from the publisher. First Published 2006 Published by Save the Children Sweden Regional Programme for South & Central Asia c/o Save the Children UK Lalitpur, GPO Box: 5850, Kathmandu, Nepal Office: 00977-1-5531928/9 Fax: 00977-1-5527266 Email: [email protected] URL: www.rb.se Concept: Ravi Karkara Written by: Neha Bhandari Reviewd by: David Cohen Copy-editing: Judith Amtzis Design, Layout and Printing: Format Printing Press, Kathmandu, Nepal List of Contents Preface vii Foreword ix Acknowledgements xiii Abbreviations xv Summary xvii Chapter 1 Introduction 1 (cid:132) Background & Rationale 1 (cid:132) Refreshing the Principles of CRP: Participation, Non-discrimination & Accountability 3 (cid:132) The Concept of a Rights-Based Approach 5 (cid:132) Rights-Based Approach and Service Delivery 8 (cid:132) Life Cycles of Issues 9 Chapter 2 Understanding Advocacy 11 (cid:132) Experiences of Advocacy 11 (cid:132) Lessons from Social Justice Advocates that we can apply to a Child Rights Perspective 13 (cid:132) Ten Ways to Build a Movement 14 (cid:132) Defining Advocacy 14 Chapter 3 Strategy Planning 19 (cid:132) ACTON Model 19 (cid:132) "Nine Questions" - A Strategy Planning Tool for Advocacy Campaigns 21 (cid:132) Picking the Right Issue to Start 22 iivv RREEGGIIOONNAALL CCAAPPAACCIITTYY BBUUIILLDDIINNGG WWOORRKKSSHHOOPP OONN AADDVVOOCCAACCYY FFOORR RREEAALLIISSIINNGG CCHHIILLDD RRIIGGHHTTSS Chapter 4 Analysing Stakeholders, Power & Relationships 23 (cid:132) Stakeholder Analysis 23 (cid:132) Power Analysis 24 (cid:132) Organising for Policy Advocacy 26 (cid:132) Personal, Public and Institutional Relationships 26 (cid:132) Dealing with Political Relationships 27 (cid:132) Power of Visioning 27 (cid:132) Identifying Relationships 28 Chapter 5 Policy Cycle 31 Chapter 6 Child led and Child Centred Advocacy 33 (cid:132) Ban on Corporal Punishment in Schools in Orissa: An example of child led advocacy 33 (cid:132) People Centred Advocacy & Child Centred Advocacy 34 (cid:132) Strategy & Tools to Strengthen Child Centred Advocacy 36 Chapter 7 Media Advocacy 39 (cid:132) Introduction 39 (cid:132) Media Advocacy by Save the Children Sweden-Denmark, Bangladesh 41 Chapter 8 Adding Strength 45 (cid:132) Network, Alliances & Coalitions 45 (cid:132) Lobbying 46 (cid:132) Campaigns 48 Chapter 9 Putting it Together (Reflections on tools and concepts) 51 (cid:132) Planning Advocacy Initiatives focusing on Policy Advocacy 51 (cid:132) Strengthening & Furthering Plans 52 Chapter 10 Way Forward 55 (cid:132) Continuing Support 55 (cid:132) Action Plans 56 REGIONAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP ON v ADVOCACY FOR REALISING CHILD RIGHTS Chapter 11 Conclusion 63 Annexes 65 Annex 1 Group Work Output: Experiences of Advocacy 65 Annex 2 Group Work Output: Applying the ACTON model 69 Annex 3 Group Work Output (Thematic) 73 Annex 3.1 Gender-based violence (with focus on working with men and boys) 73 Annex 3.2 Physical and psychological punishment 76 Annex 3.3 Children's education in emergency, in particular floods 79 Annex 4 Definitions 83 Annex 5 Glossary 85 Annex 6 Stakeholder Analysis Matrixes 87 Annex 7 Resource Material 89 Annex 8 List of Participants-Resources 91 Annex 9 Evaluation by Participants 97 vi REGIONAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP ON ADVOCACY FOR REALISING CHILD RIGHTS Preface Nearly 15 years ago a clear shift occurred in Save the Children Sweden's approach to development work in South Asia, nationally and regionally. We shifted from a needs-based approach to a rights-based framework, adopting Child Rights Programming (CRP). This approach recognises the need to fulfil the rights of every child, irrespective of class, caste, creed, sex, age, HIV/AIDS status and disability, and not just the rights of a select few. Making this real requires reaching out to wider number of people, including children. One way of ensuring this is to influence the key duty bearers responsible for fulfilling children's rights, such as governments. Understanding this notion makes advocacy central to CRP, since advocacy is what makes duty bearers accountable. Save the Children Sweden has been working actively with this realisation, incorporating advocacy within all its programmes at different levels with various duty bearers. Whether through lobbying, campaigning or networking, various examples of such initiatives are found across the region. At the same time, our experience has revealed a need for much more specific and result oriented, people centred advocacy with a special focus on child centred and child led advocacy. Sometimes the lack of understanding, capacity and skills of staff members and partners presents a hindrance. At times it appears that advocacy interventions and approaches viii REGIONAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP ON ADVOCACY FOR REALISING CHILD RIGHTS do not use a non-discrimination lens. Furthermore, children are seldom involved in developing advocacy messages. With this background a ‘Regional Capacity Building Workshop on Advocacy for Realising Child Rights’ was organised in January 2005 in Kathmandu, Nepal. The workshop was facilitated by David Cohen, a world-renowned expert on advocacy. With his rich experience and understanding of the field, David helped demystify advocacy concepts and applications for Save the Children Sweden's South Asia staff. The process initiated with the workshop is just the beginning of a long-term capacity building process, which will build on existing advocacy work in South Asia. The intention is to have five programme people linked to David Cohen, on a mentorship agreement for developing staff capacity and for developing advocacy campaigns in four locations in South Asia over the next three years. We look forward to this work and to our continued relationship with David Cohen. Lisa Lundgren Regional Representative Save the Children Sweden South & Central Asia