INCREASING THE LEVEL OF YOUR PUBLIC POLICY ADVOCACY ENGAGEMENT

It cannot be said too many times that having an effective organization is crucial to successful public policy advocacy. Surprisingly many organizations in the EU Member States don’t have sufficient knowledge on how to increase the level of their public policy advocacy engagement.

What follows are solutions for increasing the level of public policy advocacy engagement and the benefits that can accrue in doing so.

Solutions

• Raise capacities on policy level.
• Raise human and other resources to be able to engage in advocacy.
• Raise the level of knowledge and awareness of the importance of advocacy.
• Participate at national and European level in policy working groups.
• Advocate for more funding from the state and the EU.
• Conduct capacity building training on advocacy to build staff and organizational advocacy capacity and integrate advocacy as a core strategy of your organization’s work (through the implementation of advocacy workshops designed to increase organizational knowledge of monitoring ad evaluating advocacy and policy change work).
• Publicize success stories on advocacy.
• Publicize toolkits for developing an advocacy strategy.

Benefits

• Your organization’s perspectives are reflected in policies.
• You will obtain more support for funding at national and EU level.
• You will have more influence on national and EU policies.
• You will be considered as a resourceful partner in policy planning at national and EU level.
• You will gain higher visibility at national and EU level, as well as among citizens, politicians, society at large and the media.