This resource manual and its companion, Advocacy Strategies and Approaches: A Resource Manual, have been developed for potential trainers of community-based organisations (CBOs) in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region, as well as for advocates of mountain people. The Training Manual provides a guide for conducting training on advocacy applicable to a variety of mountain development issues and themes. The Resource Manual provides more in-depth material on the subjects contained in the training manual. The books are intended to provide clarity on the concept of advocacy and to help equip CBOs and their networks with tools, strategies, and techniques to help them as they assist mountain people articulate their needs and perspectives to governments, policy makers, and development organisations. Both manuals are intended to appeal to development practitioners and others interested in promoting people-centred and sustainable mountain development.


From the Foreword:


"Participation of civil society organisations in development processes is recognised to be a critical factor for the promotion of sustainable mountain development. There is also evidence that mountain people tend to be marginalised from mainstream policy-making processes in most countries of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas. One of the participatory ways to change this situation is to enhance the capacity of community-based organisations (CBOs) to bring the specific opinions and needs of mountain people to the attention of policy makers and development organisations. With this in view, ICIMOD started a ‘Regional Programme for Capacity Building of Community-based Organisations in Advocacy Strategies in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas’ in 2003 supported by the Interchurch Organisation for Development Cooperation (ICCO), The Netherlands."


Sections include:

• Front Matter
• Day 1 Registration, Opening and Introduction
• Day 2 Advocacy and Good Governance
• Day 3 Policy Issues,Vision, and Goal; Audiences, Allies, and Opponents
• Day 4 Strategies, Roles, Budgeting, and Monitoring
• Day 5 Advocacy Tools, Techniques, and Country-level Strategies
• One day Workshop on Advocacy Concepts and Tools
• Back Cover

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is an independent regional knowledge, learning and enabling centre serving the eight regional member countries of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan – and the global mountain community.


The work of Interchurch Organisation for Development Cooperation (ICCO) consists of financing activities which stimulate and enable people to organise dignified housing and living conditions in their own way.