Advocacy Strategies and Approaches: A Resource Manual

This resource manual and its companion, Advocacy Strategies and Approaches: A Training of Trainers Manual, have been developed for potential trainers of community-based organisations (CBOs) in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region, as well as for advocates of mountain people. The Training Manual provides a guide for conducting training on advocacy applicable to a variety of mountain development issues and themes. The Resource Manual provides more in-depth material on the subjects contained in the training manual. The books are intended to provide clarity on the concept of advocacy and to help equip CBOs and their networks with tools, strategies, and techniques to help them as they assist mountain people articulate their needs and perspectives to governments, policy makers, and development organisations. Both manuals are intended to appeal to development practitioners and others interested in promoting people-centred and sustainable mountain development.

Sections include:

• Front Matter
• Chapter 1: Advocacy: An Introduction
• Chapter 2: Policy Analysis
• Chapter 3: Selection of Issues
• Chapter 4: Advocacy Strategies
• Chapter 5: Finalising Advocacy Strategies
• Chapter 6: Advocacy Action Plan
• Chapter 7: Implementation of the Advocacy Plan
• Chapter 8: Synopses of Case Studies
• Back Cover

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is an independent regional knowledge, learning and enabling centre serving the eight regional member countries of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan – and the global mountain community.

The work of Interchurch Organisation for Development Cooperation (ICCO) consists of financing activities which stimulate and enable people to organise dignified housing and living conditions in their own way.