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Advocacy vs. Lobbying & Campaigning: What'S The Difference?

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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

Advocacy Lobbying Campaigning

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

Awareness raising Partnerships


Research
Campaigning
Public events: demonstration,
Lobbying petitions, vigils and exhibitions
Distribution of brochures and posters
Face-to-face meetings and discussions
Publicity
Direct incentives and diplomacy
LOBBYING
Personal letters
Activities and Events
Policy analysis
Delivering messages through the media Working in coalitions

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PREPARATION

Who can affect decision


What do you want to making? Which other
change? Who are you organisations have the
trying to influence? same aims?
Identify the problem / the Identify & involve allies,
target(s) / key decision- organise partnerships and
PREPARATION

makers agree roles

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)

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