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ICTS and Human Rights Practice: A Report Prepared for the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions

Cambridge: University of Cambridge;Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR) (2015), 50 pp.
"This report provides a crucial and in depth look at ICT initiatives and trends across the key human rights practices of prevention, fact-finding, and advocacy, identifying both risks and opportunities. In prevention, ICTs can be harnessed to protect human rights defenders, to prevent violations in ... more
"This brief offers a simple one-page tool for thinking about the theories of change that underlie public policy advocacy strategies. It first presents the tool and then offers six questions that advocates, and funders working with advocates, can work through to better articulate their theories of ch ... more

Advocacy Communication

In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Karin Gwinn Wilkins; Thomas Tufte; Rafael Obregón (eds.)
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 57-71
"This chapter provides an overview of development and social change by talking about advocacy approaches to social justice. Advocacy communication offers a critical approach within the field of development, working toward social justice. Recognizing conditions of globalization contributes toward an ... more
"[This book] examines the work of celebrity advocacy and lobbying in international development. Its purpose is to understand the alliances resulting, their history, consequences, wider contexts and implications. It argues that celebrity advocacy signals a new aspect of elite rule. For populist celeb ... more
"The Handbook on Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization (ACSM) for RNTCP aims to provide momentum and build ACSM capacity by clearly describing the processes involved in planning and implementation of ACSM activities in support of TB control and prevention. It seeks to help the reader bett ... more

Advocacy Capacity Training and Media Outreach Clinic: Workshop Report

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (2013), 30 pp.
"The Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE) together with the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) organised a two and a half day training workshop from 20th to 22nd February 2013, for the Uganda-Poverty and Conservation Learning Group members (U-PCLG) ... more
"This brief lays out 10 theories grounded in diverse disciplines and worldviews that have relevance to the world of advocacy and policy change. These theories can help to untangle beliefs and assumptions about the inner workings of the policy making process and identify causal connections supported ... more

100 Best Practices in Combating Trafficking in Persons: The Role of Civil Society

Washington, DC: Johns Hopkins University, Protection Project (2012), 122 pp.
"The Protection Project encourages the dissemination of information about the best ways to combat trafficking in persons by recommending five main components of civil society: (a) nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), (b) corporations, (c) academia, (d) media, and (e) faith-based organizations. The ... more

Development Communication in Directed Social Change: A Reappraisal of Theory and Practice

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2012), vi, 266 pp.
"Advocacy communication is now a key action term in development discourse. Advocates are usually issue- or programme-oriented and do not often think in terms of an ongoing process of social change in general, or peacebuilding in particular. The resolution of an issue or the initiation of a programme ... more
"Advocacy, communication, and social mobilization (ACSM) refers to a set of interventions that supports tuberculosis (TB) control goals and objectives at international, national, and local levels. These include advocating for sufficient resources, promoting healthy behaviors and attitudes, and engag ... more
"The purpose of this document is to highlight cases in which Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM) interventions have contributed to a positive outcome of tuberculosis (TB) control activities directed to a range of audiences and settings. It is intended for on-the-ground stakeholder ... more
"This tool can be used in different places and for different types of advocacy, and helps CAFOD and our partners to think about the wider context of their work as well as their achievements. The levels are cumulative, and require partner organisations to think through the reasons why they might be c ... more
"The Advocacy Toolkit provides a broadly accepted definition of advocacy and underscores UNICEF’s unique position and experience in advocacy. The heart of the Toolkit provides detailed steps, guidance and tools for developing and implementing an advocacy strategy. The Toolkit also outlines eight f ... more

The Applied Theatre Reader

New York: Routledge (2009), xvi, 380 pp.

Una aproximación a formas de comunicación alternativa. Radios comunitarias y empoderamiento social de los vecinos: Tres estudios de caso

Santiago de Chile: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto de Sociología;Observatorio de Medios Fucatel (2009), 55 pp.
"En esta investigación, se busca conocer bajo qué formas, Radio Placeres de Valparaíso, Radio Tierra de Recoleta y Radio 1º de Mayo de La victoria, contribuyen en el empoderamiento tanto individual como comunitario de sus comunidades. Este objetivo se llevará a cabo, mediante la comparación en ... more
"Social movements have generated interest in development circles since the mid-1990s as relatively independent expressions of civil society, mobilising people to set their own development priorities and agendas for issues as diverse as water privatisation, neo-liberal trade policies, the rights of w ... more

The Handbook of Journalism Studies

New York: Routledge (2009), xx, 446 pp.

Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design

Tactical Technology Collective (2008), 43 pp.
"How do you tell your story effectively? How can NGOs make their messages as attractive and compelling as other, competing, information? By using information design. Information design can help tell your story to a variety of constituencies. You can use it as an advocacy tool, for outreach or for ed ... more