Mapping political context - A toolkit for civil society organisations

Toolkit for civil society organisations that can be used to understand and map political context. This involves ‘identifying and describing those elements of the political world – power, organisations and rules – that shape the way in which policy processes work’. Mapping political context can help CSOs to devise more effective strategies to influence policies. The report presents a number of tools which deal with various dimensions of political context. Thus various different approaches to mapping political context are discussed, so that CSOs can select those tools that they find most useful and use them in a way that suits their needs.

For each tool, the report presents:

-          a description

-          an outline of how the tool works

-          three aspects of the tool that are of particular interest to CSOs:

           o        conceptual approach and indicators;

           o        methods for sourcing and collecting data;

           o        data analysis, presentation and recommendation.

Developer

Overseas Development Institute

Developer website

http://www.odi.org.uk/

Source(s):

Language	Format	Source
English	PDF document	click here to view/download