Policy Advocacy Concepts and Case Studies for Social Change

Name: Policy Advocacy Concepts and Case Studies for Social Change
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ISBN: 9781565495340

ISBN-10: 1565495349

ISBN-13: 9781565495340

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jeff Unsicker

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Confronting Powerprovides an academically rigorous, yet practical and comprehensive framework and sets of concepts for planning, implementing and evaluating policy advocacy. Based on the author's experiences both as teacher and activist, the framework is general enough to be relevant for advocacy in a variety of sectors such as poverty alleviation, human rights and the environment, in different national and cultural contexts, and at levels ranging from influencing a town council to transnational institutions such as the World Bank. The book grounds the concepts via a series of case studies, which themselves illustrate a range of different advocacy campaigns in both the Global South and the…

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List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Publication date: 11/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 286
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Acknowledgments






Introduction



Conceptual Maps


Case A: A Small Town in Peru Battles a Multinational Mining Corporation




Advocacy Circles


Basic Elements


Case B: Vermonters Advocate to Close a Nuclear Power Plant



Advocacy Circles: Intersections





Case C: BRAC Advocacy Unit, Bangladesh


What Next?




Advocates


Building Capacity


Case D: Research and Advocacy for a Ghana AIDS Commission




Policy


Problems, Causes and Solutions


Case E: Oxfam America Climate Change Campaign


Political Mapping




Politics


Formal and Nonformal Power


Case F: Safe Power Vermont Coalition


Phase Two of Advocacy to Close the Nuclear Reactor



Strategy


People Power and Other Methods


Case G: Kids Are Priority One Coalition in Vermont


Framing the Message




Advocacy Communications


(Re)Framing and Story Telling


Case H: Oxfam America Climate Change Campaign


Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning




Advocacy Evaluation and Learning


Index