Awareness-Raising Workshops: “Strategic Planning and Long-Term Advocacy: Preparing for a Marathon”

These workshops will focus on ‘The Role of Civil Society in Building a Strong Rule of Law in the EU.’ Eight three-hour workshops will be offered, led by two European civil society networks: NENO (Network of Estonian Non-profit Organisations, Estonia) and CNVSOs (Slovenia). These workshops will share best practices from Estonia, Slovenia, and the EU, highlighting the role of CSOs in promoting the rule of law and encouraging candidate organisations to submit impactful proposals.

The Awareness-Raising Workshops will be held in English. For those who wish, there will be an option to enable English captions.

Workshop 5: «Strategic Planning and Long-Term Advocacy: Preparing for a Marathon»

Topics:

•  Setting the Vision and Goals – Defining clear, achievable long-term advocacy objectives and aligning them with your organization’s mission.
• Building a Sustainable Strategy – Developing adaptable advocacy plans, leveraging evidence, and preparing for setbacks.
• Resilience and Momentum – Maintaining engagement over time, ensuring funding and resource sustainability, and preventing burnout.

Trainer: Triin Toomesaar

Triin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from TalTech and a Master’s degree in Political Science from Tallinn University. For a long time, she worked as the CEO of the Bullying Free School Foundation and has been involved in the work of several other NGOs in a smaller or larger role, as well as in her role as a freelance advisor to President Kersti Kaljulaid. Triin is an alumnus of the Youth to School (Noored Kooli) programme and still finds easy applications for her educational passion, both as an instructor of an information literacy course at secondary school and as a lecturer on civil society at university.

The project “Protecting democracy, human rights and the rule of law through an open civic space” (PLATO) aims to protect, promote and raise awareness of EU fundamental rights & values by supporting Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Greece & Cyprus with funding and capacity-building. PLATO is co-funded by the European Union through the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) programme, Bodossaki Foundation and NGO Support Centre, with a total grant amount of €3.1 million. PLATO is coordinated by Bodossaki Foundation (Greece) in partnership with the NGO Support Centre (Cyprus).

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