Summary

In this Study Session, you have learned that:

• Advocacy is speaking up and drawing policy makers and the community’s attention to an important urban WASH issue.
• Advocacy involves working with other people and stakeholders to improve the status of urban WASH services of the community.
• Planning an effective advocacy initiative demands an enhanced understanding of the local context, specifically on who the critical stakeholders are and their influence and importance.
• Without a clear, articulated issue and well-defined goals and objectives, the remaining steps of an advocacy campaign will lose focus.
• A network is a collaborative body formed around an issue or a general set of values that involve participants from many organisations.
• A network is important to facilitate advocacy initiatives and take up the local governance agendas relevant to WASH issues.