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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
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Lisa VeneKlasen Lisa VeneKlasen is Executive Director & Co-Founder of Just Associates, an international advocacy and learning organization. She has worked closely with dozens of NGOs, social movements and grassroots groups on people-centered advocacy and advocacy training. She has a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Valerie Miller Dr Valerie Miller is Senior Advisor & Co-Founder of Just Associates. She was formlery Policy Advocacy Director at Oxfam America and Director of Policy and Exchange Programs at the Institute for Development Research. She has a doctorate in adult education.

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