Model Workshop Trainers’ Manual: Building Coalitions for Tolerance and Non-Discrimination

Coalition building is about individual organizations amplifying their voices by working together. Anti-Semitism, intolerance and discrimination are deeply embedded across the OSCE region and addressing them requires the combined efforts of many communities and organizations. It cannot be accomplished in any large measure by just one group acting on its own.

By bringing together groups with different skills, experiences, resources and connections, coalitions can be a powerful ways to bring about large-scale, enduring changes to address issues of discrimination. ODIHR’s new manual provides a flexible workshop model to support the creation of successful coalitions, alongside fourteen annexes containing tools to facilitate this endeavour. The model for a two-day workshop draws on the human rights-based approach and the recommendations contained within ODIHR’s practical guide on coalition building for tolerance and non-discrimination.

Each workshop tool can be downloaded as an annex in a print-friendly format to be used during the workshop:

Annex 1: Sample Pre-Training Evaluation Form for the Coalition Building Workshop

Annex 2: Visioning Exercise: Challenges and Solutions When Building a Coalition Scenario

Annex 3: Stakeholder Identification Process Flowchart

Annex 4: Stakeholder Analysis Roleplaying Exercise

Annex 5: Stakeholder Analysis Worksheet

Annex 6: Operating Principles Template

Annex 7: Developing a Coalition Plan Template

Annex 8: Passport to the Future

Annex 9: Sustainability Policy Strategies

Annex 10: Coalition Member Assessment Tool

Annex 11: First Meeting Sample Agenda

Annex 12: The Stages of the Consensus Process

Annex 13: What to Do When Things Go Wrong