TAI Training Advocacy

AdvocacyAdvocacy

TAI Influence StrategyTAI Influence Strategy

ResearchAdvocacy

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Three Steps to Advocacy

1. Identify your objectives

2.

3.

Identify your audience

Create a strategy

Step 1: Identifying ObjectivesStep 1: Identifying Objectives

Engage government

Raise awareness

Influence policymakers

Collaborate with NGOs

Educate the public

Sample ObjectivesSample Objectives

Sample ObjectivesSample Objectives

Step 2: Identify your AudienceStep 2: Identify your AudienceThe general public

Policymakers

Government officials

Other NGOs

Academics

Professionals: lawyers, judges, teachers

Levels of AdvocacyLevels of AdvocacyLocal level capacity building

National law and policy change

Step 3: Create a StrategyStep 3: Create a Strategy

Education programs

Lobby government

Engage the media

Strategies: Government DialogueStrategies: Government Dialogue

CSO-Industry working group

Creating Partnerships

CSO-Government-Business groups

CSO-Government projects

NGO-Government lobbying of parliament

Strategies: TAI ProductsStrategies: TAI Products

Challenges and Opportunities

Global FOI cascade

Funding

Communications

Global good

governance

awareness

Making change

on the ground

CSO capacity

building

Growing access

movement

Donor support

for demand-side

capacity building

Planning for AdvocacyPlanning for Advocacy

Conduct stakeholder analysis

Set priorities

Identify opportunities

Develop a communications strategy

Build alliances

Create policy intervention strategies

Mobilize resources