Advocacy Tracker Tool 1 Advocacy Tracker Tool Guidance

Advocacy Tracker Tool 1

Advocacy Tracker Tool Guidance • This is a process tool to use in real time to learn from ongoing advocacy. Use this tool to track your ongoing advocacy initiative and complete AIIR tool questions along the way. • Please fill out an advocacy tracker for every expected outcome. If there are multiple outcomes, or multiple advocacy initiatives ongoing at the same time, there could be intersections that you identify. 2

When to use this advocacy tracker? • Fill in this advocacy tracker tool at the start of an advocacy initiative – and when you have small or intermediate wins! • Fill out an AIIR tool when you achieve an outcome-level advocacy win • Then fill a PIIRS IMPACT form when you have evidence of advocacy impact from a win • Using the advocacy tracker will help you complete an AIIR and PIIRS IMPACT later – as you will have already documented answers to many of the questions 3

Advocacy Tracking Tool: [TITLE OF [Press control and click on any of the headers or underlined text INITIATIVE] boxes to explore and complete corresponding questions along the way] Intermediate Wins [INSERT INTERMEDIA TE WIN A] [INSERT INTERMEDIA TE WIN B] [INSERT INTERMEDIA TE WIN C] Expected Outcome [INSERT DESCRIPTIO N OF OUTCOME] COVID-19 Adaptations [INSERT INTERMEDIA TE WIN D] Click here to log ongoing advocacy actions in the Advocacy Activity Table 4 Drag or copy intermediate wins and arrows to add and rearrange as needed! Set the expected outcome and potential impact at the start of the advocacy initiative; revise as you go and add unintended outcomes. Potential Impact WHO IS THE POTENTIAL IMPACT POPULATIO N? HOW MANY PEOPLE’S LIVES COULD BE IMPROVED? HOW WOULD THIS WIN SUPPORT GENDER EQUALITY?

Intermediate Wins Enter information about small successes as they happen! Intermediate Win A: [INSERT] • Date achieved: • HIGHLIGHT YOUR CHOICE BELOW: How would you rate the contribution of CARE and our partners to the intermediate win? : • Lead actor • Partner-led • Coordinator/initiator • Contributor • Niche role • Describe CARE’s contribution; specify CARE’s unique role as well as the role of partner organizations and coalitions, including organizations promoting women’s rights and local women’s groups: • What influencing tactics were particularly effective/ineffective? 5 CLICK ICON TO RETURN TO MAIN PAGE

Intermediate Wins Enter information about small successes as they happen! Intermediate Win B: [INSERT] • Date achieved: • HIGHLIGHT YOUR CHOICE BELOW: How would you rate the contribution of CARE and our partners to the intermediate win? • Lead actor • Partner-led • Coordinator/initiator • Contributor • Niche role • Describe CARE’s contribution; specify CARE’s unique role as well as the role of partner organizations and coalitions, including organizations promoting women’s rights and local women’s groups: • What influencing tactics were particularly effective/ineffective? 6 CLICK ICON TO RETURN TO MAIN PAGE

Intermediate Wins Enter information about small successes as they happen! Intermediate Win C: [INSERT] • Date achieved: • HIGHLIGHT YOUR CHOICE BELOW: How would you rate the contribution of CARE and our partners to the intermediate win? : • Lead actor • Partner-led • Coordinator/initiator • Contributor • Niche role • Describe CARE’s contribution; specify CARE’s unique role as well as the role of partner organizations and coalitions, including organizations promoting women’s rights and local women’s groups: • What influencing tactics were particularly effective/ineffective? 7 CLICK ICON TO RETURN TO MAIN PAGE

Intermediate Wins Enter information about small successes as they happen! Intermediate Win D: [INSERT] • Date achieved: • HIGHLIGHT YOUR CHOICE BELOW: How would you rate the contribution of CARE and our partners to the intermediate win? • Lead actor • Partner-led • Coordinator/initiator • Contributor • Niche role • Describe CARE’s contribution; specify CARE’s unique role as well as the role of partner organizations and coalitions, including organizations promoting women’s rights and local women’s groups: • What influencing tactics were particularly effective/ineffective? 8 CLICK ICON TO RETURN TO MAIN PAGE

Advocacy Activity Table Brief description of advocacy activity or tactic Intermediat e win(s) contributed to Win B: SAMPLE: briefing Government on findings and accepts recommendations CARE’s from new CARE recommend report. -dations 9 Date of advocacy activity Advoca cy target Result and/or identified follow-up actions Brief reflection on effective/ineffective tactics 09/28/2020 Deputy Minister of Health Successful briefing, Deputy Minister engaged and interested in findings. Additional CARE resources shared, follow-up with technical focal points at the Ministry next. Sharing recommendations from a comprehensive report and backing up findings with evidence was compelling and effective. CLICK ICON TO RETURN TO MAIN

COVID-19 Adaptations • Is this advocacy initiative COVID-19 specific? Yes or no (bold your answer) • Did you have to adapt your advocacy initiative due to the impacts of COVID-19? If yes, in what ways? • Have you conducted a COVID-19 RGA? Has that helped you with advocacy? If yes, please describe how. • How will this advocacy initiative contribute to building resilience against COVID-19? 10 CLICK ICON TO RETURN TO MAIN PAGE

Expected Outcome • Describe the expected advocacy win/outcome (policy or implementation change): • If this win is part of a larger advocacy or long-term program goal, please describe the larger goal: • What unintended outcomes or unexpected consequences did you observe? 11 CLICK ICON TO RETURN TO MAIN PAGE

Potential Impact • What are the impact populations that are expected to benefit from this advocacy? • If the change we influenced is fully implemented and resourced, how many people’s lives could potentially be improved by this advocacy? • How have the advocacy process and outcomes supported gender equality? 12 CLICK ICON TO RETURN TO MAIN PAGE

Questions? • Share your tracker tool (in process or completed) to: • Andrew Wells-Dang, Deputy Director of Advocacy Strategy and Learning, andrew. wells-dang@care. org • Dina Hanania, Gender-based Violence in Emergencies Knowledge Management Specialist, dina. hanania@care. org • When you’ve achieved an advocacy outcome, copy and paste your answers from this tool to the AIIR tool template, add remaining information, and send us the completed AIIR tool for review. Congratulations on your advocacy win! 13