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Policy Advocacy Seminar
Policy Advocacy
Citizen Engagement in International Development Washington, DC Fall 2007
Course Information
This 3-credit graduate seminar is being offered jointly by World Learning’s SIT Graduate Institute and International Development. The course is intended for international development students and career professionals.
Learn about global, national, and grassroots efforts for effective policy-making, program design, and service delivery. Successful policy advocacy involves citizens, communities, and civil society institutions’ efforts to engage governments, corporations, and other institutions to achieve social and economic justice. This course emphasizes academic and analytical concepts, program strategies, tools, ongoing project case studies, and "live" campaigns related to policy advocacy. It will be taught concurrently in Peru, at SIT’s campus in Brattleboro, VT, and Washington, DC.
Conducted as a seminar, the course will focus on individual and group initiatives. Students, individually and in groups will research and report on relevant advocacy issues and policy advocacy efforts. It will build upon personal learning objectives and encompass local, regional and global case studies. A range of academicians, development professionals, policymakers, and advocacy practitioners will be invited to engage with the students and bolster a rigorous academic and program analysis framework. The advocacy theory and strategy analysis will encompass sector, region, and issue-specific advocacy.
