"Policy advocacy is defined as active, covert, or inadvertent support of a particular policy or class of policies."
Explores the strategies and tactics employed by individuals and organizations to influence policy decisions, including lobbying, public campaigns, and media outreach.
Public Policy: An overview of policy-making processes, including agenda setting, formulation, adoption, implementation, and evaluation.
Policy Advocacy: Understanding the role of policy advocacy in the policy-making process, and the strategies and techniques used by advocates to influence policymakers.
Political Economy: An analysis of how politics and economics interact to shape policy outcomes, including the role of interest groups, political parties, and economic theory in policy-making.
Policy Analysis: Techniques for conducting research, building models, and evaluating policy outcomes, including cost-benefit analysis, impact assessment, and data analysis.
Lobbying and Advocacy: Strategies for influencing policymakers, including direct lobbying, grassroots organizing, and public relations.
Advocacy Campaigns: Developing and executing effective advocacy campaigns, including message development, coalition-building, and media strategy.
Policy Implementation: The process of turning policy into action, including the role of public institutions, private actors, and civil society in ensuring policy success.
Policy Evaluation: Techniques for measuring the effectiveness of policy interventions, including program evaluation, performance monitoring, and impact assessment.
Policy Communication: Strategies for communicating policy information and engaging stakeholders, including public education, media relations, and social media.
International Policy: Understanding the role of international actors and institutions in shaping policy outcomes, including the United Nations, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund.
Legislative advocacy: This type of policy advocacy focuses on influencing the creation, amendment or repeal of legislation by working with lawmakers and legislative bodies.
Regulatory advocacy: This type of policy advocacy focuses on influencing the development and modification of regulations and rules issued by governmental bodies.
Grassroots advocacy: This type of policy advocacy emphasizes mobilizing citizens to action by building public support for a cause or policy, either through community organizing or social media campaigns.
Public education: This type of policy advocacy involves disseminating information about a policy issue to the public, in order to increase awareness and understanding of a problem and its proposed solutions.
Litigation advocacy: This type of policy advocacy uses the judicial system to advance policy goals, either by bringing a case to court to challenge a policy, or by providing legal support for someone else's case.
Coalition building: This type of policy advocacy involves working with other organizations and stakeholders to create a shared agenda and campaign for change.
Media advocacy: This type of policy advocacy focuses on using the media to raise awareness and bring attention to a particular issue or policy.
Policy research and analysis: This type of policy advocacy involves conducting research to provide evidence-based support for a particular policy or reform, and analyzing the potential impact of that policy.
Corporate advocacy: This type of policy advocacy involves efforts by corporations or business associations to influence policies that affect their industry or sector.
International advocacy: This type of policy advocacy focuses on influencing policies and decisions at an international or global level, such as through participation in United Nations negotiations or other diplomatic channels.
"Advocacy can include a variety of activities including, lobbying, litigation, public education, and forming relationships with parties of interest."
"Advocating for policy can take place from a local level to a state or federal government."
"For example, a local advocacy group in Brunswick, Georgia, Defenders of Wildlife, advocated for the passage of the H.R. 5552 Migratory Bird Protection Act during 2020 when rollbacks to the bill were introduced from the Trump Administration."
"At the state level, advocacy for policy can be a joint effort between advocacy groups."
"In the United States, advocacy groups around the nation planned joint efforts to get the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act (UPHPA) signed into law in each of their respective states."
"In 2018, the bill was signed into law by Texas Governor Greg Abbott."
"A local advocacy group in Brunswick, Georgia, Defenders of Wildlife."
"Rollbacks to the bill were introduced from the Trump Administration."
"Advocacy can include a variety of activities including, lobbying, litigation, public education, and forming relationships with parties of interest."
"Advocacy can be active, covert, or inadvertent support of a particular policy or class of policies."
"Advocacy can include activities like lobbying, litigation, public education, and forming relationships with parties of interest."
"The bill was signed into law by Texas Governor Greg Abbott."
"Texas became the tenth state to enforce this law."
"The Migratory Bird Protection Act aimed to protect migratory birds."
"Advocacy groups pushed for the passage of the Migratory Bird Protection Act during 2020."
"The local advocacy group in Brunswick, Georgia is Defenders of Wildlife."
"The local advocacy group in Brunswick, Georgia focused on the passage of the H.R. 5552 Migratory Bird Protection Act."
"The purpose of the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act is to address issues related to inherited property."
"At the state level, advocacy for policy can be a joint effort between advocacy groups."