Achieving a Policy Change: Key Strategies and Factors for Success

It's helpful when you are doing advocacy work, to know that you are not alone, particularly as the advocacy effort moves into the longer term! Reading this paper reminded me that the road is long, but also helped me remember to keep the work in its context. I recommend advocates to take the general points from material like this and see how it applies to the kind of issue(s) that we are advocating on. The steps resonated for me - involve yourself in ALL levels of policy work; bring expertise to the table; take advantage of opportunities to build capacity; also know that you need to have a modicum of internal capacity before you can sustainably do advocacy, so think about how to do that as an organization.