Political advocacy from NGO and social movement's perspective. Activism from a human rights-based approach.

The purpose of the course is to provide knowledge and tools needed for institutions and social movements know how to conduct advocacy processes, based on the concept of advocacy from the perspective of law and through knowledge of the structures and mechanisms existing for these actors to participate and / or create their own processes and/ or advocacy strategies.

In this sense, the specific objectives of the course are:

• Acquire the necessary knowledge about the processes of advocacy: what is, what is the methodology set out to develop an advocacy plan, which stakeholders can participate in the process, and what tools and resources are available to carry it out.
• Integrating Gender-based Human Rights (EGbDH) the methodology of advocacy, so that provides the rationale, objective and tools to undertake this process.

Thus, the ultimate goal is to move unmet social demands and / or human rights violations to higher levels of security and protection thereof, and result in a strengthening of organized civil society and, ultimately, of democracy itself .

This is a course in collaboration with the Federación de Ingeniería Sin Fronteras (ISF). 

General Price: 120€

Discount: partners members of the IDHC or ISF; students; retired people; unemployed people and large family members, single parent and sigle mother family : 90€

The course is aimed at all individuals, groups, organizations and social movements involved in advocacy processes in Spain and the rest of the world, who have social concerns and willingness to learn tools and resources necessary to carry processes impact from the human rights-based approach. 

LIDIA SERRANO TUR. specializing in International Law and freshwater question on who has made several publications. It is IDHC responsible training IDHC and collaborates with various NGOs in defense of the human right to water and sanitation.

MANEL REBORDOSA, Freelance in the field of cooperation, degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and master in Free programms by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He has worked in various NGOs (Enginyeria Sense Fronteres, Architectura Sense Fronteres, Acción contra el Hambre, among others) in both field projects on urban services and citizenship, mainly from South-Saharan Africa (Cameroon, Guinea, Burkina Faso , Mali, Mozambique) how in the field of EPD in several projects and advocacy initiatives relating to the right to housing, right in the city or the right to water.