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A New Weave of Power, People and Politics
The Action Guide for Advocacy and Citizen Participation
Lisa VeneKlasen, Valerie Miller
Published: 2007
Pages: 360
eBook: 9781780444208
Paperback: 9781853396441
This field manual provides a well-tested approach for promoting citizen participation. It breaks down the traditional boxes separating human rights, rule of law, development, and governance, and reconnects them in order to create an integrated approach to rights-based political empowerment. A New Weave of Power, People & Politics combines concrete and practical 'action steps' with a sound theoretical foundation to help users understand the process of advocacy planning and implementation. This is an 'Action Guide' that builds on the authors' 50 years of combined experience in advocacy, gender, human rights, popular education, and social change. These collective experiences were gathered in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Europe, the former Soviet Union, and North America, and they range from participatory research and community development, to neighbourhood organizing and legal rights education, to large-scale campaign advocacy. It delves more deeply into questions of citizenship, constituency-building, social change, gender, and accountability.
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING POLITICS
Chapter 1: Politics and Advocacy
Chapter 2: Democracy and Citizenship
Chapter 3: Power and Empowerment
Chapter 4: Constructing Empowering Strategies
PART TWO: PLANNING ADVOCACY
Chapter 5: The Basics of Planning for Citizen-Centered Advocacy
Chapter 6: Planning Moment #1 - Looking Inward
Chapter 7: Planning Moment #2 - Understanding the Big Picture
Chapter 8: Planning Moment #3 - Identifying and Defining Problems
Chapter 9: Planning Moment #4 - Analyzing Problems & Selecting Priority Issues
Chapter 10: Planning Moment #5 - Mapping Advocacy Strategies
Chapter 11: Finding Policy Hooks and Political Angles
Chapter 12: Forces, Friends, and Foes
PART THREE: DOING ADVOCACY
Chapter 13: Messages and Media - Educating and Persuading
Chapter 14: Outreach and Mobilization
Chapter 15: Maneuvering on the Inside: Lobbying and Negotiating
Chapter 16: Advocacy Leadership
Chapter 17: Alliances and Coalitions
ANNEXES
Foreword
Introduction
PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING POLITICS
Chapter 1: Politics and Advocacy
Chapter 2: Democracy and Citizenship
Chapter 3: Power and Empowerment
Chapter 4: Constructing Empowering Strategies
PART TWO: PLANNING ADVOCACY
Chapter 5: The Basics of Planning for Citizen-Centered Advocacy
Chapter 6: Planning Moment #1 - Looking Inward
Chapter 7: Planning Moment #2 - Understanding the Big Picture
Chapter 8: Planning Moment #3 - Identifying and Defining Problems
Chapter 9: Planning Moment #4 - Analyzing Problems & Selecting Priority Issues
Chapter 10: Planning Moment #5 - Mapping Advocacy Strategies
Chapter 11: Finding Policy Hooks and Political Angles
Chapter 12: Forces, Friends, and Foes
PART THREE: DOING ADVOCACY
Chapter 13: Messages and Media - Educating and Persuading
Chapter 14: Outreach and Mobilization
Chapter 15: Maneuvering on the Inside: Lobbying and Negotiating
Chapter 16: Advocacy Leadership
Chapter 17: Alliances and Coalitions
ANNEXES
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