Connect with a global network of practitioners in an immersive digital learning environment
Successful candidates will obtain an ITCILO Certificate of Achievement
Course eligible for the Diploma for Social Protection Managers, allowing you to move one step closer to obtaining your recognition
How can you become an agent of change both inside and outside your organization in advancing the social protection agenda? Advocacy and communication are essential in establishing a rights-based culture of social protection, pushing for evidence-based governance with a view to better policymaking, and ensuring that programmes are aligned with international standards and meet people's needs. Well-coordinated advocacy, framed by Agenda 2030 and supported by international and regional initiatives, will be pivotal if governments are to take the "high road" towards universal social protection. Being able to engage others - beneficiaries, professionals, social partners, the media and policymakers - convey your vision for strengthening social protection and galvanise action for change is key. Yet, finding your voice and using it effectively is an art that can be learned, a skill that can be honed. This is precisely what this course aims to achieve. You will be introduced to fundamental principles and instruments in advocacy and communication to help you better define what you want to change, identify who can make that happen, and how to make your voice heard in order to achieve change.
The course is designed for officials, managers and executives of social protection institutions, ministries, international organizations, social partners and civil society who are tasked with shaping and advancing the social protection agenda at the local, national or international level; all professionals and practitioners who aim to strengthen the way they communicate about social protection internally and externally; those who wish to step up their work with the media; anyone who works closely with decision-makers to inform policy or budget formulation, amendment and implementation with a view to strengthening social protection systems for extension of coverage.
How to monitor your advocacy and communication efforts and understand whether you have made a difference.
The course is targeted at practitioners, officials, managers and executives from social protection institutions, ministries, international organizations, social partners and civil society who are tasked with designing, administering or advocating for social protection programmes.
English
Each week, participants will:
Participants should expect to dedicate a maximum of 10 hours to engaging in course
activities each week.