in English - Handicap International

It is important to remember when planning a mobilization that involves
people with disabilities that the march should not cover too large a distance,
that the march route should be accessible, and that preparations
should made in case of any emergency situations.
2) Searching for the most effective strategies
Given this menu of advocacy strategies, we need to select the most timely
and suitable for each action being planned and carried out.
To determine the most effective approach, the core group promoting the
action or campaign needs to have developed a capacity for political
analysis, creativity, and on occasion political savvy.
The following table designed by WOLA outlines different strategies, their
usefulness, the ways they should be employed, and some other practical
advice:
Advocacy Strategies:
Strategy Usefulness How to do it Practical advice
Lobbying For communicating the proposal.
• For knowing the positions of key
actors and the decision-maker.
• For fine-tuning the power map.
• For improving arguments.
• For motivating allies and persuading
the decision-maker and
other undecided people.
Identify and prioritize actors to
be lobbied.
• Propose objectives and goals
for each person.
• Analyze the positions, interests,
and motivations of people
in relation to the proposal.
• Develop arguments to use
with each person.
• Clarify conclusions and agreements
reached.
• Evaluate the meeting.
• Follow up.
Prepare sufficiently for the meeting.
• Concretize agendas for meetings ahead of
time.
• Limit your messages or arguments to just a
few central points.
• Select your spokespeople carefully and
agree on who says what.
• Concretize agreements reached in writing.
• Identify other people and ways to influence
the person visited.
• Follow up people visited.
• Be clear about what is negotiable and what
is not.
• Be clear about the decision-making power or
influence of the actors being lobbied.
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