Karakoyun Strategies is an international political consulting firm specializing in grassroots organizing, campaigns and elections, strategic communications and women’s political participation. Through a team of experts, we offer the full range of international development support services, including survey research, gender mainstreaming, and monitoring and evaluation. Kristina and her team has experience working in over 40 countries throughout Eurasia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and North America. Clients of Karakoyun Strategies include international development agencies, local civil society organizations, elected officials, candidates, women’s organizations – thinkers, doers, and anyone who wants to create change.
Services
Grassroots Organizing
The Karakoyun Strategies team has trained and mentored a large numbers of political and civic activists to advocate for change. Their experience in policy development and legislative advocacy — from gay rights to economic justice and immigration reform — gives them unique and varied issue-campaign experience. Social Movement Building Advocacy campaigns should be multi-layered, and built…
Elections and Party Building
Social movements must be connected to elections. Elections are a prime opportunity for activists to engage in shaping agendas that can set the tone of an entire movement. Political parties are the gatekeepers to democracy. It takes a strategic vision and training for parties to be effective. Only through the development of policy platforms, messages…
Training Expertise
Karakoyun Strategies teams with a number of international development and campaign and advocacy specialists from all around the globe. Consultation Services and Training: Message development Media strategies Targeting Grassroots tools for voter outreach Public opinion research design and usage Fundraising Youth activism Women networks LGBT rights Multi-layered advocacy campaign to defend fundamental freedoms and human…
Training
Campaigns / Political Party Development Back to the Basics: Campaign Planning in Six Easy Steps Don’t Knock on My Door: Why Traditional Methods of Voter Contact Really Works and How to Overcome Your Fears about Field Based Campaigns Watch What You Say: How to Win the Message War in Campaigns Research and Targeting 101 Political…
Karakoyun Strategies @Work
Much of the work of social movement building is fairly boring to watch – the tedious job of developing a strategy, meeting with stakeholders, doing organizational planning in nondescript conference rooms from one country to the next! The visuals of creating change are more evident once the change has taken place. With that giant disclaimer,…
Strategic Communications
Karakoyun Strategies provides consultation and support to the development of communication strategies for advocacy and branding of NGOs, as well as individual leaders and organizations working in the political sphere. Through a keen sense of social movements, Karakoyun Strategies is able to assess complicated political systems and provide on-the-ground ground experience in international development from the implementation side.…
Campaign Study Trips
Campaign strategies and tactics in the United States are the most advanced in the world. There’s plenty to dislike about American politics—the massive amounts of money, the never-ending campaign—yet there is a sophistication of American political advertising, campaign organization, voter motivation, and data management that can apply in other contexts. Arkedis Strategies and Karakoyun Strategies partner to…
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