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CLIMATE CHANGE & ADVOCACY. START-UP WORKSHOP Project: CAPACITY BUILDING FOR VIETNAMESE CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS ON CLIMATE CHANGE 10 th June 2009. What is Policy Advocacy (campaign)?.
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CLIMATE CHANGE & ADVOCACY START-UP WORKSHOP Project: CAPACITY BUILDING FOR VIETNAMESE CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS ON CLIMATE CHANGE 10th June 2009
What is Policy Advocacy (campaign)? • An effort to create affects upon decision-makers to fight for social changes, changes in public awareness and attitude, to adjust behaviour or mobilise financial and human resources. • A campaign utilised by NGOs, social acitivitists and even policy-makers to create influences on policies. Advocacy means creating or improving, sufficiently implementing policies and taking them into effect.
Why Policy Advocacy? • Deeper and wider impacts • High Effectiveness • More sustainable
Some main policy messages of CCWG • 1) Community based adaptation will be a crucial part of adaptation. What are the Government’s plans to build adaptive capacity for vulnerable communities and capacity for local authorities and departments to support community adaptation? Scientific scenarios should be made available in user friendly form and linked to local level vulnerability assessments to inform adaptation planning.
Some main policy messages of CCWG • 2) Ensure close integration between Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) relating to climate induced disasters and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) activities at all levels from planning stage onwards and avoid parallel but overlapping activities by different actors. • 3) Integrate CCA into development planning and into implementation of ongoing interventions across multiple sectors
Some main policy messages of CCWG • 4) REDD mechanisms in Vietnam should incorporate social standards, safeguards and accountability which protect the rights and livelihoods of forest dependent communities. How is government developing these within the REDD readiness process? • 5) Equitablebenefit sharingmechanisms should be developed prior to REDD project implementation through which local people involved in community based forest management (CBFM) will be entitled to clear, concrete, compensatory benefits for their role in sustainable forest management.
Steps of developing strategy/plan for Policy Advocacy • Problem identification • General objective • Specific objectives • Reasons for holding/joining Policy Advocacy • Targeted audience • Power analysis • Coalition foundation • Main messages
Steps of developing strategy/plan for Policy Advocacy • Activities/ Tools • Research • Policy development • Lobby • Communication methods • Public mobilization • Financial resources • Identification of opportunities/ advocacy events • Identification of financial and human resources • Identification of risks • Development of monitoring, assessing and lesson-learnt plan