CAMPAIGNING MANUAL
CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN
NGO CAMPAIGNING SKILLSHARE
SEPTEMBER 27 - OCTOBER 1, 1993
OJCOW NATIONAL PARK,
NR. KRAKOW, POLAND
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WITH MANY THANKS TO THE REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CENTRE FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE, Hungary, & THE HEINRICH BOELL INSTITUTE, Germany. Without their support this skillshare would not have been possible.
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CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN
NGO CAMPAIGNING SKILLSHARE
SEPTEMBER 27 - OCTOBER 1, 1993
OJCOW NATIONAL PARK, NR. KRAKOW, POLAND
CONTENTS:
0. Introduction
What is a skillshare
The objectives of this skillshare
Opening Statement: Why Greenpeace wanted to organise
this meeting - Iza Krusewska
1.1. Campaigning in Central and Eastern Europe
1.1.1.Advantages and Obstacles of campaigning in CEE
- Iza Kruszewska
1.1.2.Working Groups: Obstacles and Advantages of campagining
in the region. SWOT Analysis
1.1.3.Information
1.1.4.Strategies used by NGOS in the region - led by
Stewart Boyle
Examples of Camapaign Strategies used in the region:
Poland - Green Federation
Hungary - Energy Club
Czech Republic - Recycling Group, Prague
Romania - Prietenii Pamintului
1.2. Campaigning
1.2.1.Campaigning Presentation - Andreas Bernstoff
1.2.2.Working groups - Campaign strategy proposal
1.2.3.Force field analysis
1.2.4.STEP Factors
1.3. Decision Making - Presented by Antony Froggatt
2. Fundraising
2.1 Presentation - Melvyn Gattinoni
2.2 Writing a funding proposal - Daniel J. Swartz
2.3. Funding Proposal Check List
3. Media
3.1. Presentation - Blair Palese
3.2. Greenpeace Manual: Working with the Press - For activists with a mission and a message.
4.1. Presentation - Paul McGhee
4.2. Game Scenario
4.3. Direct Action Check List
5. Strategies to Promote Alternatives
5.1. Chlorine: PVC Houses
5.2. Ecological Agriculture: Import of Pesticides into the
Ukraine
5.3. Energy: International nuclear reactor to be built at
Ignalina
5.4. Ecological Agriculture Workshop
A. The Political Context
B. Ecological Agriculture
6. Networking
6.1. Presentation - Dolores Romano
6.2. Discussion - Pawel Gluszynski
7. Summing up at the end of the Meeting
7.1. Objectives
7.2. The Report
7.3. Action Plan
ANNEXES
A.1. NGO Participant List
A.2. Greenpeace Participant List
B. What is a Non-Governmental Organisation?
B.1 What is an NGO?
B.2 A Perspective of the NGO Movement in the West - Andreas Bernstorff B.3 The dependency of environmental NGOs
B.4 What is Greenpeace - Wolfgang Pekny
C. Greenpeace Videos and Publications
Greenpeace Videos
Greenpeace Publications: USA & UK
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WITH MANY THANKS TO THE REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CENTRE FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE, Hungary, & THE HEINRICH BOELL INSTITUTE, Germany. Without their support this skillshare would not have been possible.
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Campaigning Manual: Jo Corcoran, Skillsharing Project, Greenpeace Communications, 5 Bakers Row, London EC1R 3DB
2 March 1994