API was commissioned by FHI 360’s Civil Society Support (CSS), supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to build advocacy capacity, (two, three-day trainings, a two-day reflection workshop, and coaching) of the CSS’s national partners, 7 cluster lead organizations, including ODC, CENTRAL, NEP and Banteay Srei, KYA, ADHOC, LAC and their 15 consortium organizations members.

Overall, the training service empowers CSS NGO partners with essential skills and knowledge needed for effective lobbying, policy analysis, and advocacy. Specifically, the trainings & coaching have enhanced CSS’s NGO partners’ advocacy strategies and approaches, refined program methodologies, and provide advanced tools. This enables NGO staff to actively contribute to policy and legislative influencing processes at both national and local levels.

CSS is a four-year activity (June 2021 – March 2025) supported by USAID and implemented by FHI 360, a non-profit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions with its implementation partner, the International Center for Not-for Profit Law (ICNL), which works to improve the legal environment for civil society, philanthropy, and public participation around the world.

The goal of CSS is to enhance coordination and collective action among CSOs, improve the enabling environment for civil society, and support innovative methods to advance civic engagement and coordination in public policy dialogue.

CSS will achieve this goal by accomplishing the three outcomes: 1) Increased coordinated efforts by civil society and media organizations to cooperate for policy reforms; 2) Improved enabling environment for civic engagement in policymaking; and 3) Incubator tool and innovative approaches for building capacity and partnerships of CSOs and media organizations developed, adapted, and adopted.

CSS has been working through partners with CSOs in Cambodia by providing grants and capacity building to lead clusters and its members to better coordinate and enable the environment for their work in Cambodia. CSS is looking for a service provider to identify gaps and provide capacity building to partners on advocacy and policy dialogue.