Advocacy

PEN Advocacy Toolkit 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

For any support or guidance in relation to advocacy, please get in touch with Sarah Clarke, International Policy and Advocacy Manager: Sarah.Clarke@pen-international.org

Budgeting

Budgets and Financial Reporting Toolkit – to guide in developing budgets and carrying out financial reporting

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

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  PEN’s Gender Presentation – powerpoint to support facilitation of training

For any support or guidance in relation to gender, please get in touch with Josie O’Reilly, programme officer: Josie.oreilly@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 Equipment Part 2 Storytelling Interviews Editing

To read more about PEN’s Civil Society Programme, click here