How do we get the attention of state

Advocacy Plan -

Questions How do we ensure we provide an effective message across the widest range of an audience to ensure the most amount of people can listen to the message?

How do we get the attention of state and potentially national MPs within Australia to listen to our campaign/advocacy?

- What is the best way to approach international organisations and receive a timely response?
- Any tips for drafting a statement for human rights organisations to sign?
- Is asking for a UN inquiry feasible?
- Can we contact the Persian Heritage Wildlife Foundation (Iranian conservation)?

CASE REPORT & ACTIVITY
Students organize an end-of-semester advocacy activity and finalize their case report. We encourage faculty to provide students with an opportunity to give brief case(s) presentations, using the case report as the basis for this. Final case reports serve as important references for SAR and future seminars to continue advocacy work on behalf of the scholar(s).

Final Case Report
- Summary of case(s), including background information and latest case developments: the summary dossier should be incorporated into this
- Timeline of seminar`s advocacy activities
- Contacts or informational sources developed by students (and their contact information) so SAR may continue discussions started by students
- Assessment of most successful advocacy activities
- Recommended next steps for SAR staff
- Student reflections and feedback for SAR

Formatting:
- Chicago Referencing
- 1.5 spacing
- Indented paragraphs
- VISUALS THROUGHOUT

Part A: Case Background (~750 words) [DELEGATED TO: Case Report Team to complete]
- Also need to fix referencing, it`s currently Harvard
- Historical, Political and Social Context
- Australian Context in particular
- Australian position on Iran
- Overview of the work done here
- Eg Iranian community

Part B: Advocacy activities
Strategy overview [how we split up our groups etc.]

1. Group 1 - local (social media) advocacy activities and analysis
- Challenges

2. Group 2 - national level advocacy activities and analysis
- Reflecting on media contact, eg contact with media and NGOs (Toby)
- Making an advocacy pack and the process (sandy)
- Uni clubs (Yohana)
- Work with the MPs, the process (Will)
- Challenges:
- Limitations of the communication eg with media, having to coordinate availability (Cyrus)
- Cyrus: Limitations in Communication with the Media
- In our campaign`s initial stages, communication with various media platforms posed significant challenges. Many media outlets have specific communication channels, stringent publication schedules, and an overflow of daily news. This made our campaign just one of many vying for attention. Another obstacle was coordinating our team`s availability with media slots. This often led to missed opportunities as we struggled to match our timelines with those of busy media professionals.
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- However, understanding the importance of media in amplifying our message, we, the team, took it upon ourselves to ensure we didn`t miss out on these valuable opportunities. To counteract these challenges, we initiated a system where we had ready-to-go content that could fit into any media platform at short notice. Additionally, we made sure we had a rotation system where at least one team member was always available to engage with media outlets, ensuring we never missed a golden opportunity to showcase our campaign
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- Communication within our work and delegation of activities, (JIA)
- Jia: Navigating Internal Communication and Delegation
- One event that highlighted the challenges of internal communication was a peer evaluation incident. Initially, the team received low scores in the peer evaluation. As the group`s whip, it was my responsibility to ensure that everyone was on the same page and that the team functioned cohesively. Cyrus, acting as the mediator, and I faced the challenge of addressing these low scores and the dissatisfaction it sparked among members.
- We initiated an open discussion, ensuring everyone had a voice in expressing their concerns. Together, Cyrus and I led the conversation, allowing every team member to share their thoughts on the scores they received and their expectations. We emphasized the roles we played, with Cyrus mediating the conversation, ensuring it remained constructive, and myself acting as the whip, emphasizing the importance of unity and collaboration.
- After extensive discussion and understanding, the team came to a consensus on the scores. In comparison to the initial evaluations, the scores reflect mutual appreciation and understanding. This incident not only strengthened our communication but also brought to light the importance of Cyrus`s role as a mediator and my responsibilities as a whip in ensuring that every voice was heard, and concerns were addressed promptly and efficiently.

Group 3 - international level advocacy activities and analysis
- Insert / include Statement PDF (Visual & Text)
? Explanation of Statement Reasons why it is the way it is [CODY]
- Prepared it in a way that meant they could distribute easily on their own sites/to match the visuals of that site - hence why kept it simple
? Positives [JESSE]
- Responses received from emailing statement?
? Challenges and how we addressed them
- Adam emailing [BIANCA]
- Changed our audience [NUHA]

4. Panel activities and analysis
- Overview
- About the event
- Our role amongst the bigger picture
- Advertising
- Social media
- Amnesty International (challenge in invitation and reflecting on the experience to the panel for sponsorship of the event and promo, ) Toby
- Journalism/questions [ANNIE]
- Political sensitivities re Nilou`s case
- SBS Iran
- Questions
- Analysis

5. Feminista

Part D: Evaluation
- Assessment of most successful activities
- Contact and meeting with MPs Will (eg in getting a joint letter statement with Keith and Aaron, Vic Mps
- Recommended next steps for SAR
- Student reflections

Part D: Contact Information
- Kylie