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Leveraging Elections for Issue-Based Advocacy

Leveraging Elections for Issue-Based Advocacy

In this course Iranian advocates and organizers for transparency and responsive government, the rights of women, minorities, labor, students and civil and political liberties broadly will gain thorough knowledge of opportunities to press for accountability throughout the election cycle. In the run-up to elections, Iranian advocates have seized the opportunity to educate candidates about their causes while also engaging in voter education, pressing their issues to the forefront of the campaign trail. During elections themselves, they play a key role in mobilizing voters who support their cause and then later applying pressure for government accountability and fulfillment of campaign promises.

Course participants will learn to take this to the next level, using SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analyses and comparisons to international best practices to chart their successes, shortfalls, and areas for growth. Participants will analyze the tactics and outcomes of election-time advocacy campaigns in other countries, such as the online #CriptheVote movement for inclusion of disability rights in the 2016 US presidential elections and India’s 2014 Womanifesto movement to make politicians take action against gender-based violence and women’s disempowerment. Participants will directly explore the possibilities for advocacy around their issues in light of the upcoming 2017 local and national elections. Using many existing Tavaana resources in Persian on advocacy and activism – such as our exclusive Create Your Activism Plan curriculum — Iranian activists will more effectively advocate their specific issues throughout the electoral cycle and especially during peak election periods.  

This session introduces issue-based advocacy in four sections. The session opens through a few introductory...
This session focuses on the historical aspects of issue-based advocacy. Students learn how to distinguish...
In this session, students study some successful cases of issue-based advocacy. As a form of civil society...
In this session, students learn to identify the strengths and weaknesses of civic action during elections...
This session examines issue-based advocacy with a focus on women’s issues. Students learn how women can...
This session examines the fundamental problems, threats, and risks involved in issue-based advocacy at...
This session discusses working with candidates and influencing them during the time of election. Upon...
This session examines citizens’ responsibilities post-election to ensure that the winning candidates...

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2013

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