Confronting Power : : The Practice of Policy Advocacy / / Jeff Unsicker.

• VerfasserIn: Unsicker, Jeff ,
• MitwirkendeR: Friedman, Kim,; Hafiza, Sheepa,; Kote-Nikoi, Nikoi,; Olortegui, Rosa Maria,; Watson, Gabrielle,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2012]; Kumarian Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

A grassroots citizens' group in Peru stops a multinational firm from digging a mine in the middle of town. The research director of a think tank in Ghana helps convince the government to establish a national AIDS commission. An international NGO plays a key role in getting funding for climate-change adaptation included in a bill passed by the US Congress. All three are cases of the practice of policy advocacy. Confronting Power draws on these and other cases to illustrate a practical, comprehensive framework for planning, implementing, and evaluating policy advocacy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conceptual Maps -- Case A A Small Town in Peru Battles a Multinational Mining Corporation -- 3 Advocacy Circles: Basic Elements -- Case B Vermonters Advocate to Close a Nuclear Power Reactor -- 4 Advocacy Circles: Intersections -- Part TWO -- Case C BRAC Advocacy Unit, Bangladesh: What Next? -- 5 Advocates: Building Capacity -- Case C. Conclusion BRAC Advocacy Unit -- Case D. Research and Advocacy for a Ghana AIDS Commission -- 6 Policy: Problems, Causes, and Solutions -- Case D. Conclusion: Research and Advocacy for a Ghana AIDS Commission -- Case E Oxfam America Climate Change Campaign: Political Mapping -- 7 Politics: Formal and Nonformal Power -- Case E. Conclusion: Oxfam America: Political Mapping -- Case F Safe Power Vermont Coalition: Phase Two of Advocacy to Close the Nuclear Reactor -- 8 Strategy People Power and Other Methods -- Case F. Conclusion Safe Power Vermont: Phase Two -- Case G Kids Are Priority One Coalition: Framing the Message -- 9 Advocacy Communications (Re)framing and Storytelling -- Case G Conclusion: Kids Are Priority One: Framing -- Case H Oxfam America Climate Change Campaign: Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning -- 10 Advocacy Evaluation and Learning -- Case H Conclusion Oxfam America: Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning -- About the Author and Coauthors -- Index