ActionAid Update No. 1
ActionAid International
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: January 2003
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: International

The debut issue of an occasional newsletter from ActionAid, addressing the impact of their international participatory policy work >>

ActionAid Update No. 2
ActionAid International
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: April 2003
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: International

The second issue of an occasional newsletter from ActionAid, addressing the impact of their international participatory policy work >>

ActionAid Update No. 3
ActionAid International
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: April 2003
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: International

The third issue of an occasional newsletter from ActionAid, addressing the impact of their international participatory policy work >>

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ActionAid: Update No. 4
ActionAid International
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: March 2004
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: International

The fourth issue of an occasional newsletter from ActionAid, addressing the impact of their international participatory policy work >>

ActionAid: Update No. 5
ActionAid International
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: October 2004
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: International

The fifth issue of an occasional newsletter from ActionAid, addressing the impact of their international participatory policy work >>

ActionAid: Update No. 6
ActionAid International
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: January 2005
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: International

The sixth issue of ActionAid's occasional newsletter, sharing lessons learned from their international participatory policy work >>

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Identify an Issue's Life Cycle Stage and the Next Steps for Advocates
Advocacy Institute
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication : 2004
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: International

A next-steps planning tool drawing on organizational development life cycle analysis >>

Key Questions for Developing Your Objectives
Advocacy Institute
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: 2004
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: International

Questions to frame the strategic development of advocacy objectives >>

Identify an Organization’s Life Cycle Stage and the Next Steps for Advocates
Advocacy Institute
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: 2004
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: International

Strategy tips informed by organizational development expertise >>

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Act-On
Advocacy Institute
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: 2004
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: International

A four-step strategic planning tool for advocates >>

Organizational Capacity Checklist
Advocacy Institute
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: 2004
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: International

Organizational capacity tool for use in conjunction with the organizational life cycle resource (above) >>

Anticipated Advocacy Outcomes
Advocacy Institute
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: 2004
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: International

A tool for examining outcomes in terms of awareness, power, and policy changes >>

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Telling Your Story: A Guide to Preparing Advocacy Case Studies
The Advocacy Institute
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: 1992
Topic: Case Studies	Region: U.S. / North America

A guidebook to help advocates tell their stories through case studies >>

Monitoring and Evaluating Advocacy Efforts: Learning from Successes and Challenges
Advocates for Youth
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: 1998
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: International

Choosing between process, outcome, and impact evaluation >>

Build Your Advocacy Grantmaking: Advocacy Evaluation Tool; Advocacy Capacity Assessment Tool
Alliance for Justice
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: International

Advocacy capacity assessment and evaluation tools from a funder's perspective >>

Investing in Change: A Funder's Guide to Supporting Advocacy
Alliance for Justice
Intended audience: Funders	Date of publication: 2005
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: U.S.A. / North America

Addressing the legal issues around advocacy and lobbying; encouraging funders to support advocacy with their grantmaking >>

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Nonprofit and Foundation Advocacy Blog
Alliance for Justice
Intended audience: Funders	Date of publication: Ongoing
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: U.S.A. / North America

News, notes, opinions, and expertise from Alliance for Justice -- March 2005 through today >>

Power, Participation, and State-based Politics: An Evaluation of the Ford Foundation's Collaborations that Count Initiative
Applied Research Center
Intended audience: Funders	Date of publication: April 2004
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: U.S./International

Learnings from a two-year participatory evaluation process of the Ford Foundation's Collaborations That Count Initiative. >>

Monitoring and Evaluating Advocacy
BOND
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: March 2005
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: International

"The initiative to begin monitoring and evaluating your advocacy work can come from a variety of motivations" >>

The How and Why of Advocacy
BOND
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: March 2005
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: International

A concise handbook for advocacy planning and evaluation >>

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Make a Difference for Your Cause: Strategies for Nonprofit Engagement in Legislative Advocacy
Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: 2006
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: U.S.A./ North America

Nonprofit advocacy guide covering planning and executing advocacy activities >>

Advocacy for Impact: Lessons from Six Successful Campaigns
Center for Nonprofit Strategies
Intended audience: Practitioners and Funders	Date of publication: 2005
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: U.S.A. / North America

Addressing the most effective strategies in advocacy campaigns >>

Monitoring and evaluating advocacy
Chapman, Jennifer
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: 2002
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: International

Research framework for an international evaluation of advocacy and citizen participation activities >>

Monitoring and Evaluating Advocacy: A Scoping Study
Chapman, Jennifer and Amboka Wameyo
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: 2001
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: International

Identification, assessment, and critique of advocacy assessment approaches as practiced by NGOs >>

Making Change Happen
Clark, Cindy
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: 2003
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: International

A conference report on assessing success and taking responsibility for social change...

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Learning For Change: The Art of Assessing the Impact of Advocacy Work
Coates, Barry and Rosalind David
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: August 2002
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: International

An advocacy evaluation approach informed by the examination of organizational values >>

Lessons in Evaluating Communications Campaigns: Five Case Studies
Coffman, Julia
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: June 2003
Topic: Communication Evaluation	Region: U.S./North America

Report details evaluations of communications campaigns>>

Public Communication Campaign Evaluation
Coffman, Julia
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: May 2002
Topic: Communication Evaluation	Region: U.S./North America

Discusses the field of public communication campaign evaluation>>

Simplifying Complex Initiative Evaluation
Coffman, Julia
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: June 2005
Topic: Comprehensive Community Initiative Evaluation	Region: U.S./North America

Shares lessons and tips learned from evaluating a large and diverse foundation initiative>>

Strategic Communications Audits
Coffman, Julia
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: October 2004
Topic: Communication Evaluation	Region: U.S./North America

Describes a "Strategic Communications Audit" for nonprofits>>

Advocacy & Policy Change Composite Logic Model
Coffman, Julia (ed.)
Intended audience: Evaluators / Funders / Practitioners	Date of publication: September 2007
Topic: Advocacy Evaluation	Region: U.S./North America

This collaborative work by more than 50 advocates, grantmakers, and evaluators offers a way to improve communication in the advocacy evaluation field by articulating common goals, outcomes, and indicators >>

Guidelines for Evaluating Non-Profit Communications Efforts
Communications Consortium Media Center
Intended audience: Evaluators / Funders / Practitioners	Date of publication: 2004
Topic: Communications Evaluation	Region: U.S.A. / International

Culmination of a five-paper series from the Berkeley Media Studies Group, Harvard Family Research Project, and Michigan State University, primarily concerned with communications evaluation design >>

Consumer Health Advocacy: A View from 16 States
Community Catalyst
Intended audience: Practitioners, Funders	Date of publication: October 2006
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: U.S. / North America

Report highlights impact of the consumer voice in addressing health care reform >>

Evaluating the Effectiveness of DFID's Influence with Multilaterals
Davies, Rick
Intended audience: Funders / Practitioners	Date of publication: 2001
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: International

Overview of NGO approaches to advocacy evaluation, by Rick Davies of Monitoring and Evaluation News (www.mande.co.uk) >>

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The ‘Most Significant Change’ Technique
Davies, Rick and Jess Dart
Intended audience: Practitioners and Evaluators	Date of publication: 2004
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: International

Invented in an attempt to meet some of the challenges associated with monitoring and evaluating a complex participatory rural development program in Bangladesh >>

Moving from Head to Heart: Using Media Advocacy to Talk About Affordable Housing
Dean, Robin
Intended audience: Practitioners	Date of publication: 2006
Topic: Media Advocacy Evaluation	Region: U.S. / North America

A story of how a group of dedicated but frustrated affordable housing advocates learned to tell their story so it reflected their values and the values that resonated with policy makers.>>

Voices for Change: A Taxonomy of Public Communications Campaigns and Their Evaluation Challenges
Dorfman, Lori et al.
Intended audience: Funders / Evaluators / Practitioners	Date of publication: 2002
Topic: Communications Evaluation	Region: USA / North America

Methodology for characterizing communications campaigns, and ramifications for evaluation >>

Mission Possible: Evaluating Advocacy Grants
Egbert, Marcia and Susan Hoechstetter
Intended audience: Funders	Date of publication: Jan. - Feb. 2006
Topic: General Advocacy Evaluation	Region: U.S.A. / North America

The role funders play in supporting advocacy, and how evaluation in turn supports that role >>

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