Advocacy in practice

CKU invites member organizations and their southern partners to a virtual seminar on advocacy in practice.

Registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84703810971

Advocacy is central to a rights-based approach to development. The goal is to bring about structural change, which can be challenging and difficult to integrate meaningfully into project design. Learn more about how to advocate using a case-oriented approach from CKU members and partners as they share their experiences, successes, and challenges in their advocacy work within projects.

The workshop will be network-based, allowing time for dialogue and questions.

Programme: 

10:00 Welcome and introduction by senior advisors Annika Bach and Ann-Christina Gamillscheg, CKU. 

10:20 Suzyo Simfukwe is Research & Programs Development Officer at the Zambian organisation Advocacy for Child Justice and will tell about their collaboration in a network of children’s rights organizations that have helped to change the legislation in Zambia regarding child marriage and how they have involved religious actors in their advocacy work. ACJ partners with Kirkernes Integrationstjeneste in Denmark. 

10:45 Program coordinator of the Leprosy Mission in Bangladesh, Suren Nath Singh will share learnings on empowerment of leprosy affected and disabled persons in Bangladesh to claim their rights through strengthened civil society organization. The Leprocy Mission in Bangladesh partners with CKU-member Leprocy Mission Denmark. 

11:05 Program coordinator of Free Pentecostal Fellowship of Kenya, Margaret W. Muchendu will share experience with fighting female genital mutilation through involvement of religious actors and community based mechanisms in Kenya. FPFK is the partner of CKU-member International Aid Services (IAS). 

11:25 Maria Cristina Jurado is Program Manager at PCMN (the Philippine Children’s Ministry Network) and will tell about engaging local governments and churches to strengthen child protection systems and policies in urban neighborhoods in the Philippines. PCPN is the partner of CKU-member VIVA Danmark. 

11:50 Wrap up