ACTIVISM, LOBBYING & COALITION BUILDING (ALC)

Introduction

The main focus for this sub-programme is to engage with and harness/ support collective action from TGNP’s key partners and others so as to actively influence and lobby for more effective positive and gender transformative processes in policy, legal and political processes in the country and beyond. Therefore, joint advocacy is a key component to building a broad transformative feminist social movement.

In this light, building stronger coalitions as well as strengthening partnerships and networking with like-minded organisations focusing on the grassroots level linked to national, regional and global levels is very crucial.

Gender Development Seminar Series (GDSS), Gender Festival (GF) and Intermediary Gender Networks (IGNs) plays key roles in strengthening coalition building, networking and capacity building in feminist analysis.

ALC Main Purposes

·     “To provide conceptual leadership and catalyze transformative feminist participatory organizing and movement building”

Core outputs under this purpose include:

o   Strengthened and expanded social movement and collective organizing through transformative feminist conceptual frameworks and approaches, highlighting the grassroots level;

o   Consolidated structures and systems for strengthened movement building and greater policy impact through GF and GDSS.

·     “To facilitate collective action for engaging with and transforming strategic public policy, institutional frameworks, structures and processes”

Core outputs under this purpose include:

o  Increased advocacy and lobbying on the 50 percent women representation in leadership positions in Tanzania and beyond;

o  Increased collective lobbying and advocacy for transformation of selected public policy frameworks and structures through networking and coalition building at all levels.

ALC Activities

·    Review context and strategies for movement building and collective organising and obtain key areas for collective advocacy and activism at all levels

·   Identify activists groups engaged in key areas of interest for collective advocacy and establish linkages at grassroots, intermediary, national and international levels

·   Periodic review and updating of capacity building needs of coalitions and networks for strengthening conceptual clarity on transformative feminist and movement building, highlighting the grassroots level

·   Develop, strengthen and consolidate strategies for coalition building, linkages and collective organising on key areas at all levels.

·   Form and mobilize broad based coalitions to engage in collective agenda setting on key issues and influence for policy and budgetary changes

·   Promote, catalyse and facilitate the growth of coalitions at different levels

·   Consolidate and promote linkages with selected coalitions and networks for collective organising at local, national, regional and global levels

·   Prepare, document and share key achievements and lessons learnt for movement building

·   Use research and budget  analysis on campaign related issues

·   Adapt  transformative feminist analytical tools for local  level engagements and movement building

·   Periodic review of organising strategies and systems for GF and GDSS for increased movement building in Tanzania, Africa and beyond

·   Consolidate and promote linkages with selected coalitions and networks for increased collective organising of GF and other avenues at local, national, regional and global levels

·   Consolidate ongoing processes for influencing public policy and use them to inform GF activities and other avenues

·   Identify potentials and build the capacities of  women and youths leaders at district and national levels and link them with GTI for capacity development

·   Periodic Review of electoral laws and the strategy for 50% women representation in leadership and strategies for collective engagement with public policy and other institutional frameworks 

·   Engage and influence political and other decision making structures and processes for instilling the transformative feminist agenda into the leadership positions

·   Organise collective campaigns on specific social issues impacting on women at local, national, regional and global levels

·   Engage and influence selected macro economic policies, budget frameworks and processes aimed at increasing the gender transformative and pro-poor  impacts through coalitions and partnership building; locally , nationally , regionally and globally 

·   Collective organising  of campaigns on selected feminist issues at local, national, regional and global levels