Effective Advocacy

#What are the core elements of effective advocacy?

·?????? #Empower: Educate citizens about their human rights and how these rights are expressed under local policies, and empower them to protect and enforce about their rights and entitlements through working collaboratively with government and service providers

·?????? #Evidence: citizens have the right to access information about the basic services that their public government deliver

·?????? #Voice: based on the collected information and local experience, citizen have the capacity to express their views and interests, and demand actions from their government who have a duty to provide public services

·?????? #Dialogue: It's intended that citizens facilitate constructive dialogues between communities and government together with public government in order to identity ways to improve public service delivery that impact their daily lives

·?????? #Accountability: It's intended to establish collaboration between right holders and duty bears so that empowered communities can hold government accountable for their decisions and actions around basic service delivery

#What is the connections between the core elements of effective advocacy? Once citizens’ access to #information about their basic service provides the basis for them to #voice the views and opinions on the performance of these service delivery. Their views and opinions will be expressed in #dialogue with those service providers and government officials in order to demand and obtain #accountability from community to improve service deliver performance #Advocacy #Influencing #Lobbying