{"id":1522,"date":"2010-05-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xsf.stakeholderforum.org\/2010\/05\/19\/how-to-lobby-training-day\/"},"modified":"2010-05-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T00:00:00","slug":"how-to-lobby-training-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/how-to-lobby-training-day\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW: SF is hosting a training session on How to Lobby at intergovernmental meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one-day intensive training workshop that  will provide all participants with a toolkit of good practices and  tricks of the trade for ensuring that your voice is heard in the context  of international meetings.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is your organisation struggling to make its voice heard in intergovernmental meetings?&nbsp; Do you need to understand how the UN decision-making process works? Do you know how to draft text amendments or generate an effective written submission to an international meeting?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Based on 25 years of experience of lobbying at intergovernmental meetings, Stakeholder Forum has designed a one-day training course that will provide you with all of the tools, the knowledge and the tricks-of-the-trade for ensuring that you and your organisation can more effectively lobby decision-makers at the international level.<\/p>\n<p>The day will cover the core essentials for an effective lobbying strategy including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to prepare for intergovernmental meetings<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How to lobby decision-makers <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How to work with the media<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, we will also have two alternative sessions dedicated to upcoming and ongoing intergovernmental meetings; the UNFCCC negotiations and the MDG + 10 Review Summit. For a full agenda please click <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stakeholderforum.org\/fileadmin\/files\/DRAFT agenda - June 2010 training course.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Felix Dodds<\/strong>, Executive Director of Stakeholder Forum and author of seven books including <em>How to Lobby at Intergovernmental Meetings: Mine is a Caf\u00e9 Latte<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Richard Black<\/strong>, BBC environment correspondent and writer of the BBC\u2019s environment blog \u2018<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/thereporters\/richardblack\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Earth Watch<\/a>\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Derek Osborn<\/strong>, President of Stakeholder Forum and former head of the UK government delegation to the Rio Earth Summit.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>MJ Mace<\/strong>, Consultant for the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.field.org.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\">FIELD<\/a>), who has been extensively involved in UNFCCC negotiations for over 10 years.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Elvira Kanichay<\/strong>, Network Policy Officer for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bond.org.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Bond<\/a> who is involved in coordinating advocacy efforts at the national and international level, and has extensive experience of the MDG+10 review process.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>When?<\/strong> 17th June 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where?&nbsp; <\/strong>St Albans Centre, central London.&nbsp; Click <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?q=st+albans+centre&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=st+albans+centre&amp;hnear=&amp;ll=51.518651,-0.112009&amp;spn=0.01904,0.038581&amp;z=15&amp;iwloc=A\">here <\/a>for a location map.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How much?&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>NGO\/Charities: \u00a3180 (plus VAT) <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Government and Local Authorities: \u00a3250 (plus VAT)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Business: \u00a3300 (plus VAT)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Discount on group bookings available.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information and the booking form just click <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"..\/fileadmin\/files\/trainingflyerpg1final.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> or contact <a href=\"mailto:ashaw@stakeholderforum.org?subject=How to Lobby Training Day\">Andrew Shaw<\/a>: ashaw@stakeholderforum.org. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018how to lobby training\u2019 workshop proved invaluable for preparing ourselves for the UNFCCC COP\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>World Society for the protection of Animals (WSPA)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one-day intensive training workshop that will provide all participants with a toolkit of good practices and tricks of the trade for ensuring that your voice is heard in the context of international meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}