Advocacy

After identifying reform priorities, a challenging next step for reformers in developing countries can be conducting an effective advocacy campaign. While many CIPE partners are exercising newfound freedoms to debate, critique, and propose policy alternatives, the idea of participatory decision-making still may be misunderstood or out-of-practice. Yet, it is through such coordinated advocacy efforts that the private sector can become a real advocate for change. Organizations with a successful advocacy plan can not only propose policy alternatives and watch their successful adoption, they also set a path for future reformers.

As CIPE partners work to agree on and solidify their legislative recommendations and priorities, CIPE is able to provide support and information through toolkits and guidebooks, analysis and proposal examples, and lessons learned from CIPE partners around the world.

Key Resources

• CIPE Guide to Governance Reform: Strategic Planning for Emerging Markets (English, Russian)
• National Business Agenda Guidebook: The Voice Of Business (English, Arabic, French, Russian, Romanian, Spanish, Urdu)
• How to Advocate Effectively (Advocacy Guidebook) (English, Arabic, Armenian, Bahasa Indonesian, French, Russian)
  
• Legislative Advisory Services Toolkit (English, French)

Links

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• CIPE Development Blog
• CIPE Development Institute lectures on advocacy

Learn More

• Case Studies on Legal and Regulatory Reform from Russia and the Dominican Republic
  from CIPE's Strategies for Policy Reform: Experiences from Around the World

From CIPE Partners

• A Practical Guide to Advocacy Campaigns: The Romanian Experience
  in partnership with the Advocacy Academy
  

For more information, please e-mail: forum@cipe.org