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Civil Society Leadership and Policy Engagement Process Training: Improving the Nile Basin Discourse Policy Engagement
Nairobi, Kenya 22nd – 27th April 2007
The Nile Basin Discource workshop was a six-day training held for Nile Discourse Forums’ (NDFs) representatives of the ten riparian countries that share the Nile basin. It was facilitated by a team from Overseas Development Institute (ODI) consisting of Naved Chowdhury, Nicola Jones and Alan Nicol, and was designed to improve the capacity of key Nile Basin Discourse Actors to develop and implement strategies for policy engagement at both the National and Regional level.
The workshop was part of ODI's CSPP, a programme that aims to create working relationships with CSOs in different regions directly as well as partners with think tanks and organisations that support these CSOs through capacity building, grants, etc.
By the end of the workshop participants had a better understanding of, and new tools to:
- Understand the policy environment for the NBD by:
- using strategic political context analysis tools to develop and monitor progress of strategies to promote policies and programme that will enhance the pro-poor impact of the Nile Basin Initiative.
- undertaking a political context analysis to identify key political issues affecting the implementation of the Nile Basin Initiative.
- identifying two to three key policy reforms required in each country to achieve NBD goals.
- Influence the policy environment by:
- identifying specific policy processes at country level and regional level with which the NBD could engage to ensure that NBI activities are pro-poor.
- understanding and being able to apply a range of strategic and focused tools for enhanced communication and policy engagement.
- applying these analytical tools to review and refine existing work plans, and (if necessary) develop specific new activities (which might include additional research, project or public affairs work) to improve engagement with key policy processes.
- Assess and progress by:
- identifying opportunities to improve internal communication, knowledge management and learning.
- Understanding and applying improved monitoring and evaluation tools.
Further information and materials
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