Nigeria: Training on Advocacy and Fundraising for NGO and Volunteer Managers

The workshop content centers on Advocacy and Fundraising: The Advocacy part of the workshop is intended to be a hands-on experience focusing on designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating an advocacy for policy change campaigns.

Training on Advocacy and Fundraising for NGO and Volunteer Managers
2nd - 3rd May, 2006
Abuja, Nigeria

The workshop content centers on Advocacy and Fundraising:

The Advocacy part of the workshop is intended to be a hands-on experience
focusing on designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating an advocacy for
policy change campaigns. The topics to be learned are:
- Identifying Problems
- Policy Issues and Solutions
- Setting Advocacy Goals
- Setting SMART Objectives
- Identifying and Researching Audiences
- Developing and Delivering Advocacy Messages
- Formal and Informal Decision-Making Processes
- Building Alliances, Networks and Coalitions
- Self Development Skills; Effective Presentations
- Fund-raising for Advocacy
- Monitoring and Evaluating Advocacy Efforts

The fundraising part of the workshop is intended to focus on:

Identifying Organization’s Assets
Setting Fundraising Goals
Identifying Individual and Institutional Funders
Choosing Fundraising Prospects
Building Fundraising Team
Mobilizing Fundraising Team
Developing Fundraising Plan Calendar

The meeting will be conducted in English.

Who should apply:

- Program and Project Managers
- Community Advocates
- Staff of Government Departments and Agencies
- Staff of NGOs
- Professionals Institutions, Associations and Networks involved in advocacy
- Advocacy Officers
- Research Officers
- Trainers on Advocacy
- Community mobilization and Sensitization Officers
- Public Awareness Officers

The training is subsidized and participants are to pay:
(a) International Participants: $500
(b) Nigerian Participants: N30, 000
This will to cover accommodation, feeding, registration and local transportation
from airport to hotel.

Limited funding oppurtunity is available to NGO representations.
Please contact Mrs Dayo Keshi at: [email][email protected]

Date Line: 25th April,2006

Please send for request for application preferably by email to:
[email][email protected] or visit our website for more information:
www.afrigrowthfoundation.org