A New Weave of Power, People and Politics: The Action Guide for Advocacy and Citizen Participation - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853396443 ISBN 13: 9781853396441

Publisher: Practical Action Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

· A practical handbook for activists, grassroots, and advocacy groups
· Covers constituency building and the theory behind the practice
· “a significant contribution to the growing international literature on citizen participation and advocacy A New Weave has been needed for a long time.”―John Gaventa, Institute of Development Studies.

This book breaks down the boxes separating human rights, rule of law, development, and governance, and creates an integrated approach to rights-based political empowerment. It combines concrete and practical action 'steps' with a sound theoretical foundation to help users understand the process of advocacy planning and implementation.

Building on the authors' fifty years of combined experiences in advocacy, gender, human rights, education, and social change, this “action guide” gathers insights from across the world―including community development, legal rights education, and campaign advocacy. It includes a special training and capacity-building appendix that provides workshop and planning ideas for different users and needs.

About this title

Book Description:

This book breaks down the boxes separating human rights, rule of law, development, and governance, and creates an integrated approach to rights-based political empowerment. It combines concrete and practical action “steps” with a sound theoretical foundation to help users understand the process of advocacy planning and implementation. This “action guide” gathers insights from across the world―including community development, legal rights education, and campaign advocacy.

About the Author:

Valerie Miller is Senior Advisor & Co-Founder of Just Associates. For more than thirty years she has worked in advocacy, international development, gender, and human rights collaborating with grassroots organizations, NGOs, and international agencies from around the world. Over the past fifteen years, she has been Policy Advocacy Director at Oxfam America, Director of Policy and Exchange Programs at the Institute for Development Research, and advisor to, and associate of, a wide variety of organizations including the Global Women in Politics Program, Women, Law and Development International, and the Highlander Center. She has also served as a board member of Cenzontle (a Nicaraguan NGO focused on women’s economic and political empowerment) and Grassroots International. Her doctorate is in adult education and she has published numerous articles and books on issues of advocacy, development, education, and politics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1853396443
• ISBN 13: 9781853396441
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: VeneKlasen Lisa, Miller Valerie