Advocacy vs. Lobbying & Campaigning: What'S The Difference?
Advocacy vs. Lobbying & Campaigning: What'S The Difference?
Advocacy vs. Lobbying & Campaigning: What'S The Difference?
Campaigning, advocacy and lobbying are a range of tools, mechanisms, initiatives, processes and/or
organised actions to initiate and promote changes in policies, programmes or spending
Actions that aim to change Strategic, formal and informal means Actions, events and activities to
attitudes, policies and of influencing specific decision achieve a change and to raise
practices makers on an specific issue awareness on a specific issue working
more widely across organised groups
or people
The aim of advocacy, lobbying and campaigning is similar, but the processes are different
Advocacy is any plan that Lobbying is one kind of advocacy with Campaigning includes lobbying those
attempts to influence policy the goal of persuading governments in power to make changes, and a
makers and stakeholders and its leaders to take a particular combination of a number of actions to
through activities designed to position about a specific piece of build public support for change
increase public attention legislation
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PREPARATION
Monitoring
&
evaluation
IMPLEMENTATION
What to do? How to do
What is your message? it?
Who will do it ?
IMPLEMENTATION
Identify and mobilise the
Set goals and objectives required resources
Strategy/Actions Carry out a set of planned
activities (Action plan)