PEN Central Asia's human rights summer school
PEN International builds the capacity of its membership through workshops, trainings, focused support and guidance. Please find resources below. For any more advice, toolkits or guidelines please contact Holly Strauss, Learning and Accountability Coordinator: holly.strauss@pen-international.org
Advocacy
PEN National level Advocacy Plan – Template for developing an advocacy strategy at national level
PEN Advocacy Presentation – Powerpoint to support facilitation of training
PEN Writers at Risk – a summary of the work and how Centres can participate
Identify the problem – Problem Tree Analysis worksheet to help understand the problem and how to address it
Preparing for plan to take action – Worksheet to support the development of your advocacy strategy
Plan to take action – Worksheet giving you the framework for an advocacy plan
Budgeting
Budgets and Financial Reporting Toolkit – to guide in developing budgets and carrying out financial reporting
If you have any questions about budgeting and financial reporting contact Salwa Mohamed, Finance and Administration Officer: Salwa.mohamed@pen-international.org
Campaigning
Project activities as campaign tactics – how your project activities can be used in wider campaigning
Campaigning worksheet – to support you in developing a campaigning strategy
Free the Word
Free the Word bundle - a zip file containing files and documents for running Free the Word events
Gender
Gender presentation – PowerPoint to support the facilitation of training
PEN’s Gender Sensitivity Criteria – to help assess how much your project takes into account gender and diversity
For any support or guidance in relation to gender, please get in touch with Holly Strauss holly.strauss@pen-international.org
Monitoring and Evaluation
Measuring Change in the Civil Society Programme – a summary of the areas in which change needs to happen for us to work towards to the overall aim of the programme
Creating Indicators – a guide to creating indicators of change/ success for the Civil Society Programme
Measuring Change – summary of impact and change
Three Universal Monitoring and Evalutation Questions – the three reflective questions at the heart of M&E
Story of Change – PowerPoint presentation to support with facilitation of training
Story of Change – guidance document
Story of Change – Guiding questions for those carrying out interviews or analysis
Participant lead Creative writing workshops – suggestions for how to make your creative writing workshops participant lead
Understanding Impact – PowerPoint presentation to support the facilitation of training
Impact Grid Handout – a participatory tool that helps those working on a project and participants to identify changes and analyse them in a wider context
Most Significant Change Approach – a participatory tool that involves participants telling stories of change and collaberatively deciding over through discussion and debate which story is the most significant and why
Team Self Reviews – involving the project team asking themselves the three universal M&E questions and writing a short summary of the most important points to emerge
Scalar Approach – used to break down an overall aim into smaller, more managable steps
Triads – an exersize used in workshops to help participants to apply gaining knowledge to real issues affecting their work
Collecting Meaningful Feedback – guidelines for collecting meaningful feedback from workshops and trainings
Developing a Theory of Change – looking at the wider picture of how change happens in a specific context and then focusing in on your specific role
Developing outcomes and indicators – PowerPoint presentation to support the facilitation of training
For any support or guidance in relation to monitoring and evaluation, please get in touch with: Holly Strauss, Learning and Accountability Coordinator: Holly.Strauss@pen-international.org
Making films that communicate change
Equipment List: starter equipment list for making films that communicate change
We have commissioned a number of tutorial videos to act as a guide for making films about your projects:
Equipment Part 1 - step-by-step guides to using the equipment outlined in the 'starter' equipment list'
Equipment Part 2 - step-by-step guides to using the equipment outlined in the 'starter' equipment list'
Storytelling - tips on how to ensure your films are enagaging to your audience with examples of different types of story telling
Interviews - insights into how to film a beautiful interview on a low budget including tips on natural light, position and camera angle
Editing - the 'necessary evil which is all part of the process'. A step-by-step guide to bringing all your footage together
To read more about PEN’s Civil Society Programme, click here
The use of creative tools and strategies has awakened our imagination which is useful within project management, there are more resources and more possibilities than we realised, we need to reflect more
Participants at PEN’s Civil Society Programme Development Workshop, Oxford UK 2017