Example Of Advocacy Paper

Advocacy is a public support for a suggestion for a particular reason or cause of action. It is a process of pleading or arguing in support of a cause, idea, or policy. It is a process of following a cause or proposal. Advocacy seeks to ensure that people, communities, particularly those who are most vulnerable have their voices heard on issues that are vital to them. In other words it defends such people and protects their privileges. “Advocacy means taking action to bring about the change one is seeking. Therefore, advocacy must necessarily take place in a particular context, and be aimed at a particular target.”(Watson, C. 2003). Advocacy is the deliberate process of influencing those who make policy decisions. (Advocacy Tool and Guidelines, …show more content…
Advocacy focuses on the needs, wishes and rights, including protection of confidentiality, of that person. (ADACAS, 2015). When we talk about advocacy, we are talking about a procedure that encompasses the increase of public understanding about an issue, formation or change in policies. Advocacy has been recognized as one of the three major strategies for achieving health promotion goals, the others being enablement and mediation (WHO 1986). Here are two or more examples of such issues that have been addressed by this procedure. For example: A group can advocate for the prohibition of tobacco sales to teens and smoking in public areas. Such advocacy has worked in many parts of the world, like Australia and even in developing countries such as Lagos State in Nigeria, where there is a penalty for smoking in social areas (Dania, M. G., Ozoh, O. B., & Bandele, E. O. 2015). In a situation where government policies exist but are not implemented, some groups use this procedure to suggest or stir up the government to change …show more content…
When we talk about social change we often talk about moving forward, making advancement and improvement. Changes come from two sources. One source is random or unique factors such as climate, weather, or presences of specific groups of people. Another source is systematic factors. For example successful development has the same general requirement, such as a stable and flexible government, enough free and available resources, and diverse social organization of society. So, on the whole social change is usually a combination of systematic factors along with some random or unique factors. (Shackman, G., Liu, Y. L., & Wang, G. X.