In this guide, you will learn all about movement mapping. Using this technique, you will gain a better understanding of how various social movements relate to each other.

📚 This guide is part of the following series:

• Stakeholders in your strategy

• Movement of movements

What is movement mapping? #

There are various ways of analysing stakeholders in your activist campaign. Movement mapping is one of these methods. It is a process of analysing how key actors within a movement of movements relate to one another.

Movement mapping allows us to act strategically. Instead of only looking at the strategy of your movement, this tool allows you to get a birds-eye view on the position of your movement within a larger ecosystem of movements.

A lot of the time we can find ourselves firefighting and being forced to respond to an agenda set by our adversaries, the media, or other circumstances. Having a good strategy helps to take a step back from short term immediate responses, and focus instead on longer term capacity building.

Movement mapping helps us to:

• Improve our appreciation of the diversity of contributions needed for a healthy and effective movement of movements

• Make a more resilient movement of movements

• Understand the relationships between our movements

• Develop more effective long term strategies

Steps #

1. Define your movement

2. List key actors

3. Power relations

4. Types of actors

5. Connections