Module 14: Advocating for the endorsement of the policy options identified through the case study

Objectives

This module aims to give participants practical experience in lobbying for one or several policy options and gaining support from policy-makers for the endorsement and implementation of these recommendations.

 

Key questions

  1. What methods can be used while presenting the recommendations to line ministries and national policy-makers?
  2. How to effectively lobby for the endorsement of recommendations and further their implementation?

Takeaway message

Once the ABND report has been finalized and endorsed at the technical level, the political endorsement of the report needs to be conducted. This implies presenting the report to key policymakers in the country, gaining their support, organizing a visible event for the launch of the report, relying on civil society, workers’ and employers’ organizations, and other pressure groups to ensure that at least some of the recommendations can be translated into concrete policy options.

Master module 14: “Role play” to advocate for the endorsement of the policy options identified through the case study

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Didactical Material:

Instruction sheet - Role play to advocate for the endorsement of policy options

Synopsis of the launching event for the report "ABND in Thailand"

Case studies

Sample Solutions

Videos

Asia: Group activity - Advocating to a mock government

Launching event for the report

 

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ABND Coordinators will add their comments/contributions here
23.12.2014 - Victoria Giroud-Castiella
Philippines: (1) Endorsement took place as part of Step 1: Matrix and Step 2: Costing, and not as a separate third step. (2) Step 3 in Philippines was finalizing the report and launching the national SPF (defined in previous workshops) at the higher levels of government like the HDPR cabinet cluster.
12.02.2015 - Loveleen De
General: Drafting the report takes enormous amount of time. Proper planning is needed for this task. Also because it is at the drafting phase that the UN person leading the process will realize that the information is incomplete or incoherent and requires further confirmation by the source.
25.05.2015 - Céline Peyron Bista
Mongolia: Social protection policies and programmes evolve quickly. In the case of Mongolia, the change of government late December led to a number of law amendments at the final stage of the ABND process. The drafting team decided to include those changes in the report with an informative purpose, making a mention that these late amendments were not considered by the national dialogue because they occurred after the definition and cost of a social protection was already agreed. Same observations apply for the costing part. In Mongolia, the government drastically revised its economic and fiscal projections after the workshop aimed to present the ¿final results¿ of the RAP. The revised macro-economic projections impacted quite significantly the cost of the social protection floor as percentage of GDP (increased inflation, reduced GDP growth, significant cut in State¿s revenues). Although such circumstances are quite unpredictable, one needs to be ready to adjust rapidly which in the case of Mongolia required significant investment in part of the team. Therefore, here the lesson learnt is to plan properly human resources all along the ABND process. One full time international consultant or preferably national staff, especially to lobby for the endorsement of the report, is necessary.
25.05.2015 - Céline Peyron Bista
General: As referred in the introduction part, the support of the ILO country director is crucial. He/she will be the person to meet with the Minister(s) to get him or her to push the report among other ministries and at higher level. Such engagement of the government will be reflected in the ranking level of the opening. A consultant or a national staff, even an out-posted Specialist, cannot obtain such level of leverage. Ideally, the message at higher level in the country should be conveyed by the UN RC. It has been the case in Mongolia, also because the UN working group and ILO ensured that the UN RC was always informed of the ABND progress.
25.05.2015 - Céline Peyron Bista
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