Section 7 - About the Guide & Proactive Protection Project
This Immunising Conspiracy Narratives guide was developed as the capstone resource from the Proactive Protection project. The aim of the Proactive Protection project (2023-2024) is to support NGOs in the diversity sector to respond more effectively to attacks resulting from conspiracy thinking and narratives that limit their ability to fulfil their democracy promotion role and undermine trust in the sector and more broadly, in democracy. The project involved an extensive mapping of the public debate on NGOs and the target segments, a narrative development and testing process, as well as ongoing consultation and outreach to NGO partners though the main stages. The main support provided to the broader community of democratic and NGO allies is the messaging strategy that can be used in multiple ways from public campaigning, framing the everyday work of NGOs in communities, civic education to the simple day-to-day interactions of NGOs with sceptical publics.
Guide Credits
- Guide Authors: Eóin Young and Lisa Quinn, International Centre for Policy Advocacy
We would also like to thank the 7 NGO partners organisations from the diversity field for their input in the narrative mapping and development process. On the basis of security concerns, they will not be named in this publication.
Citation
International Centre for Policy Advocacy (2024, Dec 1) Immunising Conspiracy Narratives about NGOs. URL: https://www.narrativechange.org/toolkit/immunising-against-conspiracy-thinking-ngos
Licencing
This work is licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, for non-commercial purposes only. If others modify or adapt the material, they must license the modified material under identical terms.
The International Centre for Policy Advocacy (ICPA) develops and supports advocacy initiatives designed to promote and safeguard democratic principles and open society values. We are an advocacy support organisation based in Berlin and working in Germany and internationally to provide capacity development and mentoring support and practical resources in the areas of policy advocacy, strategic communications and narrative change.
The Proactive Protection project was supported through the Innovation Fund of the Demokratie Leben programme of the Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.
This publication does not express the opinions of BMFSFJ or BAFzA. The authors are solely responsible for the content of the publication.
<-- Section 6 - Messaging | Guide Index -->