Local groups planning pack

Welcome to the Planning Pack for 2012! This year the entire international movement is focused on three areas: 

• Control Arms: Securing the Arms Trade Treaty
• End forced evictions
• Human rights in the Middle East and North Africa

Alongside these global campaigns we'll keep up our work for individuals and communities at risk, and we will also step up our work to support human rights defenders so that they are free to do their vital work. In addition, we'll continue to campaign for women's human rights, corporate accountability, security with human rights, to end the death penalty and for the rights of refugees. Information will be sent to all group secretaries as well as to relevant groups campaign coordinators. Please check the website regularly for updates on all our campaigning priorities.

Key documents

We have a very busy year ahead of us. We do not want to overwhelm you with a multitude of campaigning requests on many different issues. For this reason, we have provided a broad overview of the campaigning year ahead rather than concrete activities we will be working on. We also need to be flexible and leave space so we can react to events as they happen.

• The Guide to Campaigns (PDF) should help you identify those you would like to work on
• The Options Form (PDF) is for us to keep track of what is being worked on where
• The Profiling (PDF) and Financial Return (PDF) should be sent to us no later that 24 February
• The 2012 calendar (PDF) will help you plan your year
• Workshops for your Group (PDF) outlines the training available to you

For a more detailed outline of the pack, read the covering letter (PDF)

Short guides to...

In order to help the work of local groups, we have produced these short guides to the four organisational roles. Each guide outlines the role, the qualities needed for taking it on, the key tasks and tips on how to carry them out most effectively. You can download them here:

• Chairperson (PDF)
• Group Secretary (PDF)
• Group Treasurer (PDF)
  
• Campaign Coordinator (PDF)