Advocacy rarely produces tidy numbers. Policies change slowly, many actors claim credit and the link between a campaign and a new law is hard to prove. Programme teams and donors still need evidence that influence work is worth funding. Over five days you learn methods built for this kind of change: theories of change for advocacy, policy influence pathways, outcome harvesting, contribution analysis, process tracing and most significant change stories. You also design indicators for policy dialogue, coalition strength and public engagement, and use stakeholder mapping and power analysis to decide what to track.
A full day looks at partnerships, covering how to assess trust, shared results, value for money and the quality of working relationships between organisations, consortia and government bodies. The final sessions turn findings into learning briefs, donor reports and adaptive decisions. Exercises draw on campaigns in health, land rights, education and public finance. Monitoring and evaluation officers, advocacy and policy managers, programme directors, partnership leads and donor staff in NGOs and development agencies will find the content directly applicable. Afterwards you can produce a monitoring framework for an advocacy or partnership initiative and defend its evidence to funders.
Civil society organisations, networks and development agencies invest heavily in changing policies, budgets and public attitudes, and in building coalitions to do it. Yet evaluations of this work often fall back on counting meetings and publications, which says little about whether decision makers actually shifted. Funders increasingly ask for credible evidence of influence and of the added value of partnering, and weak answers put future funding at risk.
This training course equips participants to monitor and evaluate work where results are indirect, delayed and shared. It starts by clarifying what advocacy is trying to change and how, using theories of change and policy influence pathways. It then introduces approaches suited to complex change, including outcome harvesting, contribution analysis, process tracing, policy tracking and media and social media analysis, alongside practical indicator design. A dedicated section deals with partnerships and coalitions, looking at relationship quality, shared accountability, capacity strengthening and the cost and benefit of collaboration.
Participants work through case material from real-world campaign settings and develop their own monitoring plans during the sessions. They finish with a framework, a set of tools and a communication approach that turns messy evidence into clear findings for boards, partners and donors.
Participants completing this course will be able to:
By the close of the programme, participants hold:
Sessions favour doing over lecturing, with methods taught through application. The format includes:
Day 1: Evaluating Influence and Change
Day 2: Indicators and Monitoring Systems
Day 3: Methods for Complex Results
Day 4: Assessing Partnerships and Coalitions
Day 5: Learning, Reporting and Ethics
This course is suited to people who plan, run, fund or assess influencing and partnership work, such as:
Vision Reach Global Consultancy issues a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion to every participant who attends the programme and completes the practical assignments, recognising their skills in evaluating advocacy and partnerships.
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By the end of the Monitoring and Evaluation of Advocacy, Policy Influence & Partnerships programme, you'll be able to build a theory of change for an advocacy or policy influence initiative, map stakeholders and decision makers and analyse power to focus monitoring effort, select qualitative and quantitative indicators for policy change, public engagement and coalition strength, and apply outcome harvesting and most significant change to capture unplanned results. The full breakdown of topics is covered session by session in the Course Outline tab above.
This course is suited to people who plan, run, fund or assess influencing and partnership work, such as: Monitoring, evaluation and learning officers in NGOs, Advocacy, campaigns and policy managers, Programme managers in coalitions and civil society networks, Partnership and alliance managers, Donor and development agency programme officers, Government staff engaged in policy dialogue with civil society, Research and think-tank staff working on policy uptake, and Independent evaluators and consultants.
Monitoring and Evaluation of Advocacy, Policy Influence & Partnerships Training Course typically runs as 5 Days. It's available as in-person classroom, live virtual, and in-house corporate training — every course can also be delivered on-site for your team on dates that suit you.
Monitoring and Evaluation of Advocacy, Policy Influence & Partnerships Training Course is scheduled in-classroom in Nairobi, Kenya, Mombasa, Kenya, Naivasha, Kenya, and Kisumu, Kenya, and 14 other locations, plus a live interactive virtual classroom you can join from anywhere. Check the schedule panel above for exact upcoming dates and fees in each location.
The next live virtual cohort of Monitoring and Evaluation of Advocacy, Policy Influence & Partnerships starts October 26, 2026, with new classroom cohorts also running on a rolling basis. Pick a date and location in the schedule panel above, then click "Register for the Course" — it takes a few minutes and your seat is confirmed once payment or a signed purchase order is received.
Yes — delegates who meet the attendance requirement receive a Certificate of Completion for Monitoring and Evaluation of Advocacy, Policy Influence & Partnerships Training Course from Vision Reach Global Consultancy, issued in the name you register with, so double-check the spelling at checkout.
Monitoring and Evaluation of Advocacy, Policy Influence & Partnerships Training Course is pitched at intermediate professionals. If you're unsure whether it's the right fit for your current role or background, message our training advisors before you register and they'll help you confirm.
Fees for Monitoring and Evaluation of Advocacy, Policy Influence & Partnerships Training Course vary by delivery location and format and are shown in real time in the schedule panel above once you pick a date. Register 3 or more delegates on the same course together and a 5% team discount is applied automatically — larger cohorts can request a custom corporate quote.
Yes — Monitoring and Evaluation of Advocacy, Policy Influence & Partnerships Training Course can be delivered on-site at your offices (or virtually for distributed teams), with case studies and examples tailored to your industry and the specific challenges your team is working through. Switch to the "In-House" tab in the schedule panel above to request a proposal.
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