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CI Conflict Community of Practice Advocacy Session

CI Conflict Community of Practice Advocacy Session. Oxon Hoath November 2011. Structure of session. What is advocacy? CI advocacy framework Conflict policy trends CARE’s journey towards advocacy Political analysis/advocacy in peacebuilding & other conflict programming

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CI Conflict Community of Practice Advocacy Session

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  1. CI Conflict Community of PracticeAdvocacy Session Oxon Hoath November 2011

  2. Structure of session • What is advocacy? • CI advocacy framework • Conflict policy trends • CARE’s journey towards advocacy • Political analysis/advocacy in peacebuilding & other conflict programming • Key questions, challenges & opportunities?

  3. What is advocacy? Advocacy is the deliberate process of influencing those who make policy decisions. Identifying the institutions, policies and practises of people in power that keep people poor, and increasing poor peoples ability to influence them is essential to: • Address the structural / root causes of poverty and discrimination • Increase impact by reaching more people • Have a more sustainable impact • Increase citizen empowerment, accountability, good governance • Maximize CARE’s global reach (bridge local to global)

  4. CI advocacy framework • CI’s Global Advocacy priorities • Climate Change • Humanitarian • Women, Peace & Security • Humanitarian Space / Aid in Conflict • Food security • CI global advocacy representatives in Geneva, NY, Brussels • CI Global Advocacy, Media & Communications Committee • CARE Advocacy Handbook • Programme Shift: Addressing Underlying Causes of Poverty (including structural / policy dimensions)

  5. Conflict policy trends • Peacebuilding & Statebuilding Goals • = the missing MDG? • ‘New Deal’ or Compacts between international community and post-conflict countries • Stabilisation & Counter-Insurgency • Women, Peace and Security & conflict GBV • Jobs creation & private sector in reconstruction

  6. CARE’s journey towards advocacy • Initial focus on economic/social/livelihoods • CARE as technical aid delivery organisation (eg food aid) • Household livelihoods security • Understanding inter-connections between social, economic & other dimensions of poverty at micro-level • Rights-based approach to development • Understanding how poverty as a violation of human rights, and political and social dimensions • ‘Underlying Causes of Poverty’ & Programme Shift: • Structural dimensions of poverty including policy aspects

  7. Identify key actors and institutions (policy map) Government has limited information on environmental risks and pollution Government agencies spend resources on building dams, clean water for poor communities a low priority Business leaders oppose environmental regulations Communities not aware of damage done by sewage companies Poor knowledge about disease transmission No safe water sources in community Fuel is expensive No environmental policies that regulate private companies Water points distant/inaccessible Private sewage companies dispose in rivers Households don’t boil water Children and other household members drink contaminated water High prevalence of diarrhea among children under five Identifying policy issues High infant and child mortality in Macondo

  8. Political analysis, advocacy & the programme shift in conflict settings • Violent conflict arises from struggles over power/politics • Peacebuilding involves identifying & supporting non-violent mechanisms & processes to resolve conflict • CARE’s niche in peacebuilding involves engaging poor/marginalised sections of the population in peace and security efforts • Linking local/community level to national level Can any of the above be addressed without political analysis and/or advocacy?!

  9. Identify key actors and institutions (policy map) Government has limited information on views, fears and priorities of community X Government post-conflict policy or practice ignores or works against the interests/rights/needs of community X linked to root causes of conflict / drivers of violence Traditional powerholders ??? International (eg. UN) or regional institutions align with Government and adopt Y policy ???? ???? ??? No process or mechanism for involving community X in peace & security policy at local or national level Humanitarian consquences??? Victor / subjugation attitude towards defeated factions in population ????Economic consequences Security forces behave in violent/predatory ways ????Rights violations Physical security impacts???? Identifying policy issues Conflict impacts / consequences for community X

  10. Key Questions & Challenges • How to integrate and address political/policy issues in situational analysis at project & higher levels? …And how to translate this into project design, monitoring & evaluation? • What role for advocacy by CARE, local partners and beneficiaries in peacebuilding or other programmes addressing conflict?

  11. Ways forward? • Identify best practices for a future CARE Peacebuilding Programming Framework on: • Identifying political/policy factors in situational analysis for peacebuilding programmes • Document case studies of good practices in advocacy strategies in conflict • CCP policy analysis & recommendations on • Conflict sensitivity of donors/government/private sector in post-conflict economic reconstruction • Participation of marginalised communities in the ‘new deal’ for conflict countries

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