IALLA II - 2005	CONVENOR: JOSEFA FRANCISCO
	Monday August 8	Tuesday August 9	Wednesday August 10	Thursday August 11	Friday August 12
08.00	Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast
09.00	Orientation to the module, expectations check & sharing of program flow; learning map; house rules.                                                                                               Implications of shifting terrains & emerging issues arising from global geopolitics, to our advocacy on adult education. The objective is to engage the participants in a dynamic discussion on the major challenges and opportunities in the environment that may have an influence the advocacy of ICAE and of adult educators in general.	Report back on previous day’s discussion. Further questions for clarification (if any)	Report back on previous day’s discussion. Further questions for clarification. (if any)	IALLA Evaluation	Participants' departure
		Input-discussion on strategic advocacy planning: looking at three-level objectives of advocacy & of different actors (Gigi Francisco)	Input-discussion: Steps in formulating an advocacy agenda (Gigi Francisco)
		Workshop discussion –             3 groups: national, regional, international                       This session introduces the participants to the need for identifying concrete advocacy objectives in three areas and for mapping the various actors/players/stakeholders that groups need to take account of in the context of advocacy at the national, regional and international spheres.	Workshop: Part 1  One group for global sphere; one group for national sphere                                             The session allows participants to use various techniques in identifying an advocacy issue and in formulating a policy solution that they could advocate on.                                       Choosing an advocacy issue
10.30	Coffee/Tea	Coffee/Tea	Coffee/Tea	Coffee/Tea
11.00	Workshop discussion (4 groups)                          Questions:                                                   (1) How are we addressing these challenges in our adult education work?                                         (2) Are we able to integrate our efforts or do our efforts run parallel to one another (i.e. modules focused on specific concerns)?                                (3) What capacities do we need to develop as adult educators so that we can effectively integrate these new challenges into our work?	Advocacy objectives:               (1)     What is our key policy objective?                             (2)     What is our key process objective ?                                 (3)      What is our key civil society objective?	Workshop: part 2                               One group for global sphere; one group for national sphere                            Activities:                                           1. Checklist of basic questions to ask in formulating a policy solution                                              2. Content –Structure- Culture Grid	IALLA Evaluation
		Actors / stakeholders:                              (1) Who is our “constituency” in our advocacy?                               (2) Who are possible targets of our advocacy?                            (3) Who are possible “allies”?                 (4)     Who are possible “opponents”?
	Plenary report back & discussion / Overall Synthesis	From the mapping exercise, answer the following:  (1) For each of the groups above, identity strategies that can be used.
13.00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
14.30	Plenary report back & discussion / Overall Synthesis Continues previous session	Input-discussion: assessing your organization’s capacity for advocacy (Gigi Francisco)	Plenary presentation & discussion / Overall synthesis	Closing ceremony
15.30	Coffee/Tea	15.00   Coffee/Tea	Coffee/Tea	Coffee/Tea
16.00	Roundtable discussion: collective construction of a new thinking on advocacy for popular education (part 1)                                       The session objective is to facilitate participants’ further reflection on context, complexity and the world, and to engage them into a visioning of a new thinking for popular advocacy & action. It requires activities that will sharpen participants’ understanding of the meaning of transformation in relation to:                                         (1) Cultural Diversity           (2)  Local (distinctive) –global (shared) norms (New legal paradigm?)                     (3) Local-global actions (New politics)                   From the sharing by resource persons, reflect on the following:  (1) What new information do we need ?  (2)  What new knowledge do we need? (3) What new understanding have we obtained /should we obtain? (4) What new values & ethics should we be cultivating?	Workshop. Similar organizations will form a group.	Re-visiting the learning map                                                                                                                             Creative group presentations
		The session focuses on assessing our organization’s capacity for advocacy  (national, regional and international spheres). It will cover the areas of (1) Organizational VMO; (2) Internal Assessment; and (3) External Assessment.
		Key questions:
		1. Why does any organization engage/plan to engage in advocacy
		2. Are these reasons for engaging in advocacy consistent with the VMO of my organization?
		3. What does my organization expect to change or attain by engaging in advocacy?
		4.  INTERNAL ASSESMENT (S-W in organization, human resources & material resources)
		5. EXTERNAL ASSESMENT (T-O in relation to: state actors, civil society actors, market actors/factors and culture.
		Plenary session & discussion on items 1 to 4    Challenges and needs identified from the previous exercise
		Plenary session & discussion on item 5 / Overall synthesis
		17:00    Plenary report back & discussion  / Overall synthesis
19.00	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner	Reception
20.00				Brass Band