PLA 43: Advocacy and Citizen Participation
This edition of Participatory Learning and Action uses case studies to explore questions about advocacy and citizen participation.
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February 2002
Guest Editors: Cindy Clark, Beth Harrison, Valerie Miller, Jethro Pettit, Lisa VeneKlasen
Approaches to advocacy and citizen participation are becoming increasingly important for civil society groups, as more attention is paid both to popular participation in decision-making at all levels and to holding those in power accountable.
This issue explores the following questions through case studies from South Asia, Central America, East Africa, Southeast Asia and North America.
- How does participatory advocacy differ from other mainstream concepts, and how is it linked to strategies and processes of social change? What key elements of citizen education, training, and organising are involved?
- What are the strategic entry points for participatory advocacy at local, national, and global levels, and what are the dangers?
- How do we handle issues of representation and accountability in advocacy movements?
- How do we measure success and failure?
Also included are training tips from a recent book on advocacy, 'A New Weave of Power, People, and Politics: The Action Guide for Advocacy and Citizen Participation', plus general articles on participatory approaches and a comprehensive resources section.
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Contents
Overview - making change happen: advocacy and citizen participation
Cindy Clark, Beth Harrison, Valerie Miller, Jethro Pettit and Lisa VeneKlasen
What is people-centred advocaccy?
John Samuel
The advocacy debate: changing policy, changing people
Lisa Veneklasen with Valerie Miller
Samajik Samikhya : a social audit process in a panchayat in Orissa
ActionAid India, Bolangir Team
Causes, consequences, and solutions
Lisa Veneklasen with Valerie Miller
Engaging people in right to food and work litigation
Arundhuti Roy Choudhury
Struggle of civil society organisations in Pakistan for pro-people legislation
Irfan Mufti
People's Assemblies on Devolution of Power: a case study on popular political participation in Pakistan
Irashida Dohad
Participation for whom?
Partricia Ardon
Jumping on the train: the pastoralist experience in Kenya's PRSP
Daoud Tari Abkula
Assessing entry points: questions of engagement
Lisa Veneklasen with Valerie Miller
Grassroots women's advocacy programme
Nani Zulminarni
Power and empowerment
Lisa Veneklasen with Valerie Miller
The struggle at Yellow Creek
Valerie Miller
From city streets to congressional corridors: insights from the US anti-war movement
David Cohen
Monitoring and evaluating advocacy
Jennifer Chapman
General Section
Determining priorities in rural communities in Jamaica
Jane Dodman
From dependence to self-reliance through restoring human values: an experience with farmers' organisations
Rajiv S. Saxena and S.K. Pradhan
Participatory communal conflict resolution (PCCR)- a tale of two Nigerian local communities
Chimaraoke O. Izugbara
