BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Brussels X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Brussels BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2672907:Event:12578 DTSTAMP:20260507T052650Z SUMMARY:Communications for Policy Influence Workshop DESCRIPTION:Communications for Policy Influence Workshop\nDate: 1 – 3 September 2010\nVenue: The Oasis Centre, 75 Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7HS, UK\n\nA Two and a half day interactive workshop comp rising:\n\nTwo days training to introduce principles and tools to effe ctively communicate research to inform pro-poor policy.\n\nA half-day surgery to review participants’ work and seek one-to-one support fro m facilitators and peers\nThe workshop is designed for researchers who are working with or on a research programme, project or organisation. \n\nParticipants will be asked to develop and send a summary of their research (or area of work) and identify challenges and opportunities t o address during the sessions.\n\nAims: By the end of the workshop par ticipants will be able to:\n1. Identify and prioritise their main audi ences\n2. Develop three key messages for their main audiences\n3. Unde rstand, design and use a range of communications tools including\n• Policy briefs: participants will be able to outline a policy brief\n†¢ The media: participants will be able to write a press release and/or an Op-ed\n• A range of web-based tools: participants will be able t o edit/create a Wikipedia entry\n\nFor more information about Research Communications, please visit the RAPID website and the RAPID Research communications community\n\nFacilitators: Angela Hawke, Jeff Knezovic h and Nick Scott\n\n• Angela Hawke\nAngela is ODI’s Senior Editor and edits all major ODI publications, from Briefing Papers to blogs to the Annual Report. She has been an editor and writer for more than 25 years.\n\n• Jeff Knezovich\nJeff is Communications Officer at ODI a nd currently coordinates RAPID's overall communication activities as w ell as those of several key projects. As a communications practitioner , he has also put his skills to use participating in RAPID’s researc h and advisory work on research communication.\n\n• Nick Scott\nNick is ODI’s Online Communications Manager and specialises in strategie s for effective use of online tools for, among other things, dissemina tion; more efficient and collaborative working; sharing information; a nd learning.\n\nFees and registration\nCourse fee: £600 (inclusive of VAT) - The fee includes workshop registration, materials, lunches and refreshments for the four workshop days.\n\nTo maximize participation and instructional quality, we have limited the number of participants to 24 per workshop. Participants will be enrolled on a first come, fi rst served basis. To avoid disappointment, please register early.\n\nT o register, please send a completed electronic booking form (downloada ble here) by email to Eva Cardoso, e.cardoso@odi.org.uk before 2nd Aug ust 2010.\n\nFor more information visit https://km4dev.ning.com/events /communications-for-policy DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20100901T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20100903T235900 CATEGORIES:workshop LOCATION:The Oasis Centre WEBSITE: URL: CONTACT: ORGANIZER;CN="Eva Cardoso":https://km4dev.ning.com/profile/EvaCardoso ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg": ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Eva Card oso":https://km4dev.ning.com/profile/EvaCardoso ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Dr. Mon ica Chaudhuri":https://km4dev.ning.com/profile/Drmonicachaudhuri ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Shree R am Subedi":https://km4dev.ning.com/profile/ShreeRamSubedi END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR