Advocacy

Question 1

What does advocacy imply?

Answer 1

“implies a value commitment” (Greene, 1995)

Question 2

What is advocacy according to Reid?

Answer 2

“… many kinds of activities and strategies [that] groups use to leverage influence in the policy process” (Reid, 2001).

Question 3

What is advocacy according to Bundon and Clarke?

Answer 3

“something that is done by or on behalf of the disenfranchised in an effort to win concessions from a dominant group” (Bundon and Clarke, 2013). e.g. Rashford

Question 4

What are the key elements in the long definition?

Answer 4

• Action … initiated by citizens, acting individually or as a collective often represented by non-profit orgs …
• … people who may have less relative power in society or unable to represent their own interests, e.g. poor or children …
• … a deliberate process of influencing decision makers or a social agenda to build political will around action

Question 5

What is policy advocacy according to Gen and Wright?

Answer 5

“policy advocacy is intentional activities initiated by [the public] to affect the policy making process.”

note-might be private orgs in sport

Question 6

What does the WHO define as health advocacy?

Answer 6

“combination of individual and social actions designed to gain political commitment, social acceptance, and supportive policy and systems” (WHO, 1995)

Question 7

What are the two common angles of advocacy?

Answer 7

“We seek change for the better … [and] we struggle to protect that what we have.” (Stake and Rosu, 1995)

Question 8

What can advocacy lead to ?

Answer 8

Conflict between groups

-lobby groups often up against dominant beliefs

Question 9

What are the different types of advocacy?

Answer 9

1• Programmatic (or issue)
2• Legislative
3• Political campaign
4• Demonstrations
5• Boycotts
6• Grassroots

Question 10

What benefits of advocacy exist for policy makers?

Answer 10

• More effective polices
• Wider distributions
• More valued policies
• Government process improvement
• Greater adaptivity to changing environment

Question 11

Can advocates take credit for changes that take place?

Answer 11

• Often not as there are many stages of power to implement post initial advocacy
• Often a very long time line for policy change

Question 12

How does advocacy fit in the Traditional Policy Process?

Answer 12

• Often involved at every level

-advocates interested from start to finish

Question 13

Who came up with the advocacy logic model?

Answer 13

Gen and Wright,

Question 14

What are the 5 stages in the advocacy logic model?

Answer 14

1• Inputs/competencies
2• Activities
3• Proximal Outcomes
4• Distal outcomes
5• Impacts

Question 15

What are the inputs of the advocacy logic model?

Answer 15

1• Sense of agency
2• Specialist knowledge and skills/competency
4• People and relationships
5• Material resources

Question 16

What are the activities of the advocacy logic model?

Answer 16

1• Engaging, mobilising the public
2• Coalition building
3• Engaging decision makers
4• Information campaigning
5• Reform efforts
6• Defensive activities
7• Policy monitoring

Question 17

What are the proximal outcomes of the advocacy logic model?

Answer 17

1• Democratic environment
2• Changes in public views
3• Changes in decision makers views

Question 18

What are the distal outcomes of the advocacy logic model?

Answer 18

1• Policy adoption

2• implementation change

Question 19

What are the impacts of the advocacy logic model?

Answer 19

1• Public-centred policy making
2• (Real) Changes for target population
3• Changes in services and systems

Question 20

What does the advocacy logic model show? and caveat?

Answer 20

• How groups can influence decision making

* but all models are guides not exact science