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Research to Advocacy:
bridging the gap
Pro-poor Advocacy
Pro-poor advocacy shapes political decisions and actions that respond to the interests of people who directly face poverty and disadvantage.
Key drivers of advocacy
- Learning based advocacy (CMS, research, lesson learning workshops)
- Broad network across the country- Research: based on real experience and evidence- Media- Alliances
- pNGOs, GoB, Donors, Private Sector
What are our strongest drivers?
Research
• A research goldmine:– 36 projects; 32 partners; country-wide presence
from rural to urban contexts; innovative and proven interventions
• Research officers and assistants exploring challenges faced by the extreme poor:– Gender, khasland, health, Adivasis, old age,
disability, climate change adaptation, slum evictions, …
Potential Advocacy ChallengesBased on shiree beneficiary experience
• Exclusion from or poor access to services
• Inability to cope with external shocks
• Health and Nutrition vulnerability
• Poor or adverse engagement with economic processes
• Gender specific vulnerabilities and threats
Potential Advocacy ChallengesBased on shiree beneficiary experience
• These categories are all potentially responsive to policy initiatives
• They all fall within the scope of development programme design (GoB or donor funded)
• They all show potential for private sector initiativesHence they are all valid subjects for shiree
advocacy activity
Research to Advocacy
• How can the research programme add value to this advocacy agenda? – leading to greater relevance and impact examples?
• 2 similar pieces of research , yielding similar findings, will not have the same advocacy impact?
At different stages of the research cycle – looking at it from an advocacy perspective
• Identification of research themes• Validation of research selected• Planning of research processes• Peer review and validation of results• Presentation of results• Follow up
Research to Advocacy
Some questions to consider
• How to choose research topics? • How to publicise research underway?• Who to choose to undertake research?• What terms of reference?• Who to do the research with? • How big? What scope?• Who validates the research? • How, where and when are results presented?
Ideas to strengthen advocacy within shiree
• Strengthened link between researchers and key advocacy issues identified– Limiting advocacy challenges to current research
topics– Examples of good practice:• Khas land• Slum Eviction
Ideas to strengthen advocacy within shiree
• Focused advocacy workshops– Would focus on one advocacy challenge• Social protection• Gender equality• Health• Disaster risk reduction
– Bring experts of identified theme to present their knowledge on the issue – advocate to us
– Endorse advocacy outputs (i.e. policy briefs)
Ideas to strengthen advocacy within shiree
• New website!– Shiree has launched a new website with a page
dedicated to advocacy challenges– Would you use this as a forum to discuss or give
feedback on shiree’s advocacy outputs?
pNGO key advocacy challenges
• Are there any challenges shiree is not addressing in its advocacy campaign?
• In your experience, which five challenges are most apparent or relevant?
• What is your organization doing for advocacy?
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