ADVOCACY AND NETWORKING

Over the next 3 years NURRU will enhance advocacy and networking of its stakeholders. The advocacy and networking programme is to ensure increased involvement and participation by stakeholders at all levels of the NURRU research process. This programme will support activities that promote utilisation of the research results by the stakeholders to produce desired changes at sub-county, district, regional and international levels.

The programme activities will include allocation of responsibilities and resources to implement the priority activities of the stakeholders. Stakeholders will be organised in Thematic Coalitions in line with the NURRU research themes of Education, Decentralisation, and Plan for Modernisation of Agriculture (PMA), Industrialisation, and Peace and Conflict. NURRU will provide continuous technical and material support to the coalitions. Technical support will comprise services from experts for organising advocacy materials for specific themes. Material support will include furniture, ICT equipment, books, and journals. The advocacy coalitions will use various fora to network among themselves and other stakeholders at different levels. The advocacy, networking and coalition building are to promote consensus building on priority issues for advocacy, the advocacy strategies, targets and time frame.