Advocacy and Policy Influencing
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Advocacy and Policy InfluencingAugust 6th, 2013
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Content• Terminologies• Policy Influencing Principle• Policy Influencing Cycle• Stakeholders• Principled Negotiation• Role of Language in PI
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Terminologies• Policy Influencing is the deliberate and systematic
process of influencing the policies, practices and behaviour of different targeted stakeholders that are most influential on the issue.
• Lobbying: all activities whereby dialogue with those you want to change is central. It is agreement-driven and both parties are willing to work towards a agreement.
• Advocacy: all activities that do not use violence and/or other illegal activities. This includes lobbying.
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Terminologies• Activism: activities that involve third parties in the
process of change of influential stakeholders. Mostly this is the public, through campaigns and demonstrations. Activism overlaps with advocacy. However, activism also includes violent and illegal activities.
• Awareness-raising: a pre-condition for policy influencing. Therefore it is generally part of policy influencing activities. It can never be an end in itself, but should be part of a strategy towards a pre-defined result (behavioural change).
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Policy Influencing Principles• Credibility: Why would people trust us, believe in us?
• Legitimacy: Who or what gives you the right to interfere?
• Accountability: How can you be transparent towards decision makers, back donors, and beneficiaries?
• Service-oriented: How are you being helpful, and do you focus on win-win solutions?
• Power: What is your power base and how do you use it?
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Credibility Credibility What & Credibility How
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Legitimacy
Legitimacy What & Legitimacy How
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Accountability
Accountability What & Accountability How
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Service Oriented
Service oriented What & Service oriented How
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Power
Power what
&Power How
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When To Apply CLASP?
CLASP should always be applied:
• Throughout the whole PI Cycle • At the level of each step• At every moment of PI
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Policy Influencing Cycle
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Positioning
Impact on primarybeneficiaries
Managing networkdynamics
Assessing outcome Mapping of
policy process
Stakeholders and interests
Lobby, media, campaign
Delivery of FINAL
message
Birth of EARLYmessage
Prepareaction plan
Preparingdeliverables
Fact findingDefine
policy issue
Primary beneficiary Influence
Resourcingfor PI-plan
Alliancebuilding
Identify the policy issue
Strategic networking
Policy influencing plan
CLASP
Issue analysis & Fact Finding
Identifying/Defining the Policy Issue
Identification:•More clear goal•Good outcome
Defining:•Contextual analysis•Theory of Change•Involvement of stakeholders
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Contextual Analysis-The contextual analysis presents the baseline of your work. It is the departure point for planning your future interventions.
-A contextual analysis should contain at least three types of analysis that sometimes overlap:
•Analysis of actors (Stakeholders)•Analysis of factors (PESTLE)•Analysis of own organisation (IOM)
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Theory of Change• Theory of Change defines all building blocks
required to bring about a change. This planning methodology helps you further define the policy issue and how to place your policy influencing intervention in a greater context.
• Theory of Change defines as clearly as possible not only the ultimate outcomes and impacts you hope to achieve but also the avenues through which you expect to achieve them ww
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Steps of Theory of Change• Determine the Vision • Map the changes• Choose your “change buttons” (i.e. identify
which outcomes you will address)• Check the assumptions of your hypothesis
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5Sphere of Control Sphere of Influence
Sphere of Concern
Girls go to school regularly
Parents ensure that gender roles don’t interfere with education
Community openly discusses reproductive healthWork on
awareness of community members on gender roles
Schools educate girls adequeately
Com and family encourages girls education and healthy lifestyle
Girls visit doctors
Healthy and self-sufficient wom
en that are m
embers of their fam
ily and com
munity in an equal and sustainable
way
Support NGOs that work with communities
Women have jobs and income
Women are healthy
Women have healthy children
Women marry when they choose (at mature age)Support
teachers for new education
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sphere of ‘control’
sphere of influence
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Policy Influencinginitiative
PoliticalTargets
Beneficiaries
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Who Are Stakeholders?• Persons, groups or institutions whose interests or
concerns are ‘at stake’.
• Persons, groups or institutions who influence or are influenced by the issue.
• Having something to win or something to lose by change on the issue.
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What Is Stakeholder Analysis?• Stakeholder Analysis is the identification of the
key stakeholders in a planning or change process.
• An assessment of their interests.
• The way in which these interests are likely to affect the process.
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Why To Do Stakeholder Analysis?
• Better plans • Participation of the right parties• Objectives more likely to be achieved • Activities more likely to be sustainable• Clearer view on participation / responsibility• Clearer distribution of responsibilities• Clearer assumptions• Better advocacy & policy influencing strategy• Beneficiaries participation and knowing your
target audience. Very crucial!
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Beneficiary Participation• A beneficiary is a stakeholder. Stakeholders are
persons, groups or institutions with interests in a process, such as policy influencing.
• Your actions should be guided by the will of the beneficiaries and your actions should increase the power of beneficiaries (empowerment). If this is not the case then you risk losing all legitimacy, one of the key principles.
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Manipulation
Information Gathering
Consultation
Collaborate
Self mobilisation/Empower
Receiving Information
Participation Ladder
Networking/Alliance building
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Principled Negotiation• Soft negotiators: soft on the people, soft on the
problem
• Hard negotiators: hard on the people, hard on the problem
• Principled negotiators: soft on the people, hard on the problem
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How to Negotiate Successfully • Prepare thoroughly• Get to know the other side – ask and wait for answers• Never enter negotiation when you are tired,
impatient, hungry or angry• Allow for the possibility of not reaching agreement• Define your goals• Identify shared goals • Define your negotiable + value to your opponent • Anticipate alternative scenarios + prepare tactics • Your BATNA (Best Alternative to Negotiated
Agreement) • You are not weaker or stronger than your opponents• Both sides share goals and are willing to bargain
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How to Negotiate Successfully What should you emphasize? • Repeat the goals you share with your opponent • State your position clearly and repeatedly • Clarify positions, repeat what they said, ask questionsWhat should you avoid? • Do not make concessions early • When you make concessions, avoid large concessions • Avoid irritating the other side or making them angry • Do not accept a deadline for reaching a settlementWhat should you remember? • Nearly everything is negotiable. When the other side
says: "This is my last offer!" that too, may be negotiable.
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The Role of Language in Policy Influencing
• Language is a very powerful tool in politics and in policy influencing. It affects the way we are looking at reality.
• It plays a central role in any Advocacy and Policy Influencing initiative.
Advocacy Initiatives and framed messages• Advocacy messages can take the form of frames and
be used in a similar way as politicians do.• Help gain broader support for advocacy position. • Effective means of passing a message in media (radio,
television), oral interventions or even in written papers.• Good frames become quotes.
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Examples of Frames• Don’t give the fish, provide the fishing rod!
• Why would the peasant have to pay for the study of the banker?
• A policeman is a thief with a government gun.
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Thank You!
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