KINDLE Advocacy was implemented by Co-PLAN with the support of the US Embassy in Tirana. The project tackled the need for the young CSO’s and newly emerging activists to articulate evidence based responses in influencing policymaking in pressing issues related to city-making, democracy and environment.
The project aimed to strengthen internal capacities of local CSO-s and young activists to monitor, analyze, and undertake concrete steps/actions through a dual/integral approach, providing the target groups with both, capacity development and advocating experience. A tailored capacity development program was envisioned in the form of structured workshops and coaching components, covering five core themes under the overarching multilevel governance, such as elections, communication for impact, urban activisms, environmental resources and a free topic. In then process the participants improved their knowledge of how to engage in policy processes (monitoring, analyzing, influencing), how to establish dialogue platforms with the local/regional/ and national authorities, how to raise particular pressing issues within the sector, and how to initiate lobbying and advocacy actions in view of influencing policy-making.
