"The more you keep quiet, the more you allow such incidents to continue," says Edmund Yakani Berizilious, executive director of Cepo, a local NGO whose mandate includes advocacy for humanitarian access.
Her nearly 30-year career includes advocacy, organizing and leadership work for social justice organizations such as Lambda Legal, ACORN, Amnesty International and SEIU.
The work includes advocacy and rescue of the most vulnerable -- children from the streets, from corrupt orphanages and from abusive, enslaved situations.
The Globe and Mail points out that while Invisible Children acknowledges that less than one-third of its budget goes to on-the-ground programs, the group argues that its mission includes advocacy and raising awareness.
It includes advocacy skills and practical instruction in e.g. first aid, moving and handling.
The mandate of many community-based organizations often includes advocacy, which frequently takes shape through networks or coalitions of organizations.
This includes advocacy for health information systems disaggregated by gender and by other important factors that shape vulnerability and resilience to ill-health (poverty, age, literacy, disability).
Breast nurses, whose role includes advocacy of their patient's interests, might have been expected to influence their surgical colleagues and hence accelerate the decline of this procedure.
- As with any significant health system transformation, increased acceptance of multiplicity requires more than just rigorous data and evaluation, and includes advocacy, political support, and leadership to overcome entrenched interests.
It also includes advocacy and communication and education on child nutrition, marketing and labeling of baby food products and rights and obligations of health care institutions involved in improving child nutrition.
UNICEF support includes advocacy and support to national policy development, technical aid in designing transfer and other social protection programmes, strengthening linkages between social protection programmes and services, capacity building, implementation assistance in some geographic areas, and monitoring, research and evaluation support.
