Open Educational Resources Advocacy Toolkit

Ultimately, advocacy is about creating opportunities for change and transformation of practice. There are a number of common approaches and frameworks irrespective of discipline, and advocacy evaluation tools are usually contextualised by practitioners as part of iterative design and debriefing.

The following examples – drawn from non-government organisation (NGO), healthcare and social movements – are a good starting point for OER advocates:

• co-learning from attempts to evaluate real-life policy advocacy, including addressing challenges in evaluating advocacy initiatives (Evaluating Advocacy)
• frameworks for advocacy evaluation (The Change Agency)
• The Commons Social Change Library’s Evaluation collection, particularly:
  • 3 templates for campaign evaluation
  • 3 tools for advocacy evaluation
  • Advocacy step 8: monitoring and evaluation (from Cancer Control: Knowledge into Action: WHO Guide for Effective programmes).