Straight to the POINT-Mapping an Advocacy Strategy

Summary

The Straight to the Point advocacy tools are intended for organizations that want to include in-country advocacy and public policy work among their programmatic strategies. The tools will organization through the three essential steps to developing an advocacy initiative:

• Setting Advocacy Priorities will help you take the first step in developing an advocacy initiative— selecting an issue for advocacy.
• Assessing the Political Environment for Advocacy will help you understand the environment you are working in and the key factors you need to consider as you develop your initiative.
• Mapping an Advocacy Strategy (this tool) will help you plan a concrete strategy for achieving your goal, including determining your specific activities

How is this document connected to AV principles and project

A better example of knowledge-sharing and developing relevant tools and resources for advocacy in NGOs.

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM IT: in the publications it is possible to find forms with questions about advocacy which can help NGOs to position their current state in the field of advocacy and what more needs to be done to get better results in public policy work.