Public policy advocacy plays a vital role in promoting effective representative government. By providing focused expertise and analysis to help public officials make informed decisions public policy advocates sustain and advance the policy process. The most basic function of the public policy advocate is to educate by providing information, and it is axiomatic that legislators benefit when they can consider information from a broad range of interested parties.

Meeting with and communicating with government officials usually represent only a small portion of a public policy advocate’s time. A far greater portion of time is generally devoted to other aspects of preparation: researching and analyzing legislation or regulatory proposals, monitoring and reporting on developments, attending parliamentary or regulatory hearings, working with coalitions interested in the same issues, developing strategy and evaluating tactics, and communicating with clients about the implications of various policies, proposals, and developments.

Communication is strategic when it is completely consistent with a corporation’s mission, vision, values and is able to enhance the strategic positioning and competitiveness of the organisation. The most important concept to understand in relation to communication strategy is that communication should be seen from the audience’s perspective. Strategic communication must be clear, true, repeated, consistent and delivered with passion.

AALEP Consulting services are based on a four-step approach that includes 1. Intelligence Gathering 2. Analysis 3. Strategic Planning and 4. Advocacy. In order to manage policy change effectively, accurate and timely predictive intelligence is a necessity. Through our extensive network of contacts with the EU institutions, we are able to follow what’s going on first hand, providing monitoring and intelligence gathering for clients eager to stay ahead of EU legislation and policy developments.

There are 3 prime associations that represent medicine practitioners. The Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) and  the European Association of Senior Hospital Physicians (AEMH). All three pursue general objectives: Exchange of information, study of the conditions influencing medical practice, study of health care systems, competency of medicine practitioners, defense of medical ethics, pre-and post graduate medical training of doctors, high standards of continuing medical education (CME), improvement of health care.

The Council of European Dentists (CED) represents over 340,000 dentists across Europe. The association is composed of 32 national dental associations from 30 European countries.

The association's objective is to develop and execute policy and strategy in order to:

The European Federation of Nurses Association (EFN) represents the nursing profession and its interests to the European Institutions, based on the nursing education and free movement Directives. Representing more than one million nurses over 34 National Nurses Associations at European Level, the EFN is the independent voice of the nursing profession.

AALEP is delighted to announce that, for the first time, it is offering advocacy and European affairs services on a consultancy basis. As the association representing professional Public Policy Advocates accredited to the European Union, we are well positioned to provide the support you require.

Based on the World Bank the top 40 countries of the world by GDP are shown here below. The table shows that a little bit of growth in the U.S. will go a lot farther than a lot of growth out of China.

As part of the OECD Trust Agenda, the OECD Public Sector Integrity Network hosted the OECD Forum on Transparency and Integrity in Lobbying on 27 and 28 June in Paris, France.  The Forum mobilized 115 participants representing 26 OECD and partner countries, the EU, private sector, lobbying associations, trade unions and civil society.

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