Advocacy strategy

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• Advocacy strategy
• Presentation by
• PARIS21 Secretariat

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Aim..creating a Virtuous Cycle
Better
Statistics
Increased
demand
Increased, better spent resources
Better
coordination
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What is advocacy?

• Advocacy persuading key people who can make a
  difference to support your cause
• Dissemination providing and promoting access to
  statistical information.
• This can be powerful advocacy (better statistics
  leading to more demand, etc)
• Lobbying those who can make a difference
• Communicating with stakeholders umbrella concept
  that incorporates all of these

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How can advocacy help?

• Addressing each part of the vicious/ virtuous
  cycle, by advocating for
• Production of better statistics
• More and better use of existing statistics
• More and better focused funding for statistics
• Better coordination between donors
• Better coordination between different parts of
  the NSS

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Steps in developing an advocacy strategy

• Advocacy aims what are you advocating for?
• Advocacy to whom who can make a difference to
  achieving advocacy aims?
• Advocacy messages what will motivate them to do
  that?
• Advocacy materials and approaches what will
  work best?
• Advocacy strategy and action plan regional and
  country level

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Advocacy aims

• Take from NSDS strategies, objectives and goals,
  e.g.
• Organisational and institutional change
• E.g. Develop Statistics Act strengthen sectoral
  statistics units coordination, harmonisation
  across NSS NSO leadership role
• Improved awareness and use of statistics
• Produce good quality, timely statistics
• Develop skills and capacity of staff
• More and better coordinated resources from
  government and donors

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So what can NSS deliver itself and what does it
need to advocate for?

• Organisational and institutional change
• E.g. Develop Statistics Act strengthened
  Statistics Units coordination, harmonisation
  across NSS NSO leadership role
• Improved awareness and use of statistics
• Produce good quality, timely statistics across
  NSS
• Develop skills and capacity of staff across NSS
• More and better coordinated resources from
  government and donors

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Advocacy aims
Advocacy aims What are you advocating for? (to be able to implement the NSDS)

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Advocacy to whom and key messages

• Who to advocate to?
• Who can make a difference in achieving that
  advocacy aim?

• Key messages
• What key messages will work best in motivating
  them to help you achieve the advocacy aim?

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Some examples of key messages

• Better use of better statistics leads to
• better policies
• better aid effectiveness
• better development outcomes (e.g. health,
  education, poverty reduction, etc)
• Good statistics improve transparency and
  accountability of Government decisions to
  electorate
• Investment in statistics will pay for itself many
  times over by improving resource allocation

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More examples of key messages

• Statistics are needed for upstream policy
  development as well as for downstream
  processes such as monitoring and evaluation
• There are two-way benefits to NSO and line
  ministries from the NSS SP and a better
  coordinated NSS
• Donors must resist funding statistical activities
  that solely meet their own special interests

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What types of advocacy materials and approaches
will work best?

• Advocacy materials
• What types of advocacy materials will work best
  with each advocacy target?

• Advocacy approaches
• What types of approaches (direct and indirect)
  will work best with them?

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Action Plan to deliver advocacy

• Advocacy activity

• Priority/ timescale