Youth Advocacy, Key Topics in Adoption Assistance/Adoption Subsidy in the US, Support for Minnesota Adoptive, Foster, Kinship Families, Sample Stories, Artwork, and More from Young People, Minnesota Adoptive, Foster, Kinship Families, North American Council on Adoptable Children, The North American Council on Adoptable Children, Schedule at a Glance (central daylight time). Its goal was to campaign for a national law facilitating the right to information. The media can bring a mass audience, potentially increasing profile and credibility, but they can also bring bad publicity and may contribute to mobilising opposition as well as support. Thus building the advocacy capacity of self-help groups of the disadvantaged and of community-based and working-class organisations is at least as important as doing advocacy for the poor. [3] Carmen Malena, Reiner Forster and Janmejay Singh Social Accountability: An Introduction to the Concept and Emerging Practice (Washington: World Bank, 2004). Is anything similar being considered or planned? It is useful to distinguish between primary and secondary audiences. Before adopting a campaigning orientation it is worth asking whether the goals could be better achieved by dialogue or quiet negotiation. What alternatives might be considered? The Brazilian government is now considering investment in 10,000 new telecentres drawing substantially on the experience of the RITS demonstration. Step 1: Identify and understand your topic, Step 2: Identify specific problems to address. There is no blueprint for success, but there are some common denominators to almost all successful advocacy campaigns. In other cases a single-issue organisation, or a coalition of like minded groups, may form to campaign towards a single policy goal, as in the example of India’s campaign for a right to information law. Such initiatives can be resource intensive. Careful planning and a strategic approach are therefore needed if results are to be achieved. For example, “e-government” projects that use the internet to improve access to public services may, for those without internet access, have the reverse effect, unless they are complemented by other measures to enable universal access to the internet. 1 2 3 4 5. The lack of “voice” of disadvantaged groups is a challenge at the core of pro-poor advocacy on ICT access. The 5,000 women members of the Society are mostly Dalit, the lowest group in the Indian social hierarchy. Amnesty International Amnesty International Campaigning Manual London: Amnesty International, 1997 www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ACT10/002/1997, Betancourt, Valeria Access to ICTs as a right: The case of the constituent process in Ecuador Montevideo: APC, forthcoming, Drèze, Jean and Amartya Sen India: Development and Participation New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002, IFEX (International Freedom of Expression eXchange) Campaigning for Free Expression: A Handbook for Advocates Toronto: IFEX, 2005 www.ifex.org/download/en/IFEXCampaignHandbook.pdf, Jenkins, Rob and Anne Marie Goetz “Accounts and accountability: Theoretical implications of the right-to-information movement in India” Third World Quarterly 20, 3 (1999): 603-22, Malena, Carmen, Reiner Forster and Janmejay Singh Social Accountability: An Introduction to the Concept and Emerging Practice Washington: World Bank, 2004

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