Technical Assistance for
Civil Society Organisations
Bosnia and Herzegovina Office
This project is funded
by the European Union.
Identify and Define
the PI issue
Technical Assistance for
Civil Society Organisations
Bosnia and Herzegovina Office
This project is funded
by the European Union.
Technical Assistance for
Civil Society Organisations
Bosnia and Herzegovina Office
This project is funded
by the European Union.
Identify and understand the issue
Selection of the issue:
How do you choose your issue?
Give examples from your own practice.
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Civil Society Organisations
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Different options
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Some options – all are “good”
- Problem tree
- generative issues (emotional) “dream”
- guts-feeling
- SWOT
- policy decision taken in the environment as leading
- (shocking) facts happening in the environment
- Setting Political agenda’s
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Civil Society Organisations
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Define the issue
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by the European Union.
Leading Questions:
• What do you do to get a better understanding
of the issue?
• What is important in order to convince
decision makers?
• What do they want to know about the issue?
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Different ways of defining
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Fact Finding
Context analyses
Do research
Case studies
Beneficiary meetings
Board Meetings
Participatory assessments
Collect Stories (MSC)
Make sure that you have both:
FACTS
and EVIDENCE
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Vision
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• After identifying the issue…
• Imagine that, 5-10 years from now, the policy influencing
programme has been extremely successful. Things have
improved beyond your most ambitious dreams.
Exercise = Draw a rich picture that describes the better
world you are seeking.
• What changes have occurred?
• What (& how) are your intended beneficiaries doing?
• What are other actors doing?
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Civil Society Organisations
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Beneficiary involvement
Beneficiaries
Political
Targets
Policy Influencing
initiative
sphere of
interest
sphere of
influence
sphere of
‘control’
Adapted from: Steff Deprez VVOB-CEGO, Nov 2006
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Civil Society Organisations
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Mission
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by the European Union.
The mission describes how you, the programme
supports the vision.
• How can the programme best contribute to the
achievement of the vision?
• How can a PI-strategy contribute to the the
achievement of the vision?
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Civil Society Organisations
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Example Bogo Tree – Policy Influencing
High incidence
of malnutrition
Consumers face
food-shortages
Food is in short
supply in Bogo
(availability)
Food production
hills decreasing
High
immigration rates
etc
etc
etc
Farmers receive
low prices for
food-products
Middle men take
huge profits
Logical Framework
Overall
Objectives
•Incidents of Malnutrition reduced
•Consumer’s food shortages
reduced
•Consumer’s incomes have
increased
Project
Purpose
Fairer prices are paid to farmers
Results
1. Middle men are involved in
value chains
2. Foreign food dumping is
reduced
Activities
Incidents of
malnutrition
reduced
Consumer
food-shortages
reduced
Consumers incomes for
food purchase are low
(accessibility)
Rice production
in low-lands
decreasing
1. To lobby at WTO level
2. To lobby at nat. gvt. Level
3. To lobby at IMF & WB levels
Middle men
are involved
in value chains
Int. Trade Agreements
force governments
to open up markets
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by the European Union.
Food prices
are more fair
Urban Salaries
are low
Fairer prices
are paid to farmers
Foreign food is
dumped on
the market
Food prices are high
(availability)
Incomes have
increased
High
Unemployment
Dumping has
been reduced
Due to lobby on WTO level,
market protection is accepted
in the Agreement on Agriculture
National Trade
Protection policy
is non-functional
Due to lobby on national government
level, gvt has negotiated market
protection at international level
IMF & WB SAP/PRSP
policies are coercive
WTO rules
are coercive
Due to lobby WTO
rules have changed
Due to lobby IMF & WB
policies were adapted
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Vision for Bogo province
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by the European Union.
• Male and female farmers are selling their
produce
• International and national companies are
paying higher prices for agricultural produce
• National government collects taxes from
farmers and investing it in extension service
and agriculture marketing
• Farmers and their families are well-nourished
and have better health
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Civil Society Organisations
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Mission for Bogo case
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by the European Union.
General strategies:
• Farmers will increase good and continuous production of food
crops;
• Supermarkets are willing to invest in Value Chains, and thus
pay better prices if quality and timely production are
guaranteed
PI – strategy: (creating an enabling environment)
• A network of national and international NGO’s influence WTO
– Agreement on Agriculture to stop dumping of subsidized
food aid from US/EU on national markets.
Early message = Stop dumping
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Civil Society Organisations
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EXERCISE
This project is funded
by the European Union.
Identify your PI issue for the week:
- Individually Or in groups (max 4 people)
1.DEFINE & CLARIFY YOUR ISSUE
2.DEFINE YOUR VISION (POLICY & POLITICS)
3.DEFINE YOUR MISSION
4.SELECT YOUR KEY POLITICAL ISSUE / PI ISSUE
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Civil Society Organisations
Bosnia and Herzegovina Office
This project is funded
by the European Union.
Birth of the
Early Message
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Civil Society Organisations
Bosnia and Herzegovina Office
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by the European Union.
Exercise : identify issue for the week
1. Define your PI issue: (CLASP)
- what are the elements, the logic
- the facts,
- what does your board, beneficiaries, you want/belief/wish
2. Formulate a clear MESSAGE on your PI issue (one line!)
And Present your message to the plenary