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50 Training Manual on Advocacy, Lobbying and Negotiation Skills for Indigenous Peoples in Climate Change and REDD+ FOLLOW THROUGH Commit to the plan. Do not start and then later on stop. STAY FOCUSED Keep everyone focused on the plan. Do not get distracted BE TIMELY –™‘—Ž†„‡‰‘‘†–‘…‘‹…‹†‡‘—”ƒ…–‹˜‹–‹‡•™‹–Š•’‡…‹Ƥ…‹’‘”–ƒ–†ƒ–‡• that may have better impact when we do our activities during these dates. These opportunities maybe important meetings, government conferences, holidays or so-called “red letter days,” world theme days such as the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on 9 August.

2.1.6. Monitoring, Evaluation and Feedback

Aside from a doable and well thought-of action plan, all successful advocacy campaigns should regularly monitor, evaluate and get feedback on how the campaign is progressing. By doing this, we can be able to undertake timely adjustments to our plans to adjust to changes in the situation. Monitoring, evaluation and feedback are also means for us to check on accountability. We need to always ensure that the indigenous community has the complete, updated information on how we are going about with our advocacy campaign. Undertaking monitoring and evaluation is one way by which we are able to inform our community members that what we are doing is progressing and meeting our objectives, or is not doing well, and so we need to make changes in our plans.

a. Monitoring

When we monitor, we gather information so that we can be able to measure the impact of our advocacy campaign. We also monitor to make sure that our activities are being implemented well and on time. As we monitor, we are also able to see problems that arise and we are able to address them immediately. 51 0283ODQQLQJDQGYRFDF\DQGREE\LQJDPSDLJQ Guide questions that can help us monitor are the following: Ȉ Have we done the things that we said we were going to do? Ȉ If not, why not? Ȉ What activities do we need to change? Monitoring should be done on all stages of our campaign. Remember that when we monitor, we are able to tell if our activities are helping us achieve our objectives. Aside from this, monitoring can also give us valuable information about our campaign. For example, if we launch a media campaign, we can be able to measure how successful this is by the number of press releases that were published in the papers. Or by the number of signatories that we have gathered in a petition signing campaign.

b. Evaluation

Evaluation is a bit more complicated than monitoring because we would like to see the impact of our activities. This involves analyzing the information that we have gathered when we monitor our campaign. Evaluation is very important since this gives us an idea on our strengths and weaknesses and how far we are achieving our objectives. This also provides us the necessary basis to adjust or plans if needed. ‡‡„‡”–Š‡‘„Œ‡…–‹˜‡•ƒ†‹†‹…ƒ–‘”•–Šƒ–™‡‹†‡–‹Ƥ‡†‹‘—”’Žƒ•ǫ This is where they will prove useful. When we evaluate, the indicators will tell us what we have accomplished and can also tell us how our resources have been used. Guide questions that can help us in our evaluation work are the following: Ȉ Have we achieved our objectives? Ȉ If not, why not? Ȉ What needs to change in the strategy as a result? We can use the following to better understand how to evaluate: