About Us
We are the Advocacy Team. A service for people and organisations working for a just world. Through our public affairs, consultancy, policy/ research support and training offer, we help our clients to execute creative and impactful campaigns. Equity is at the heart of our work; a verb that guides every element of our mission – from the causes we fight for, to the way we do business.
We are experts in resource mobilisation, policy analysis, political advocacy and campaigning. We inject innovative and creative solutions to advocacy challenges, use our network of political relationships, and over a decade of experience winning advocacy campaigns, to help organisations to achieve their goals.
We are proud of our multilingual, international team and of our experience supporting development projects working with organisations in the UK and across multiple regions including in South East Asia, East and Southern Africa and the Middle East.
OUR CLIENTS
We are proud to have worked with a number of leading organisations working across the global advocacy space in supporting their mission for global justice.
"I greatly appreciated the Advocacy Team's emphasis on equity and inclusion, ensuring that our policy outputs reflected diverse perspectives and voices. Their work was efficient and of a high standard. I look forward to working with them on similar projects in future."
BOND
KIT DOREY,
Uk Policy & Advocacy Mnager at Peace Direct
"I greatly appreciated the Advocacy Team's emphasis on equity and inclusion, ensuring that our policy outputs reflected diverse perspectives and voices. Their work was efficient and of a high standard. I look forward to working with them on similar projects in future."
BOND
KIT DOREY,
Uk Policy & Advocacy Mnager at Peace Direct
SERVICES
Public Affairs
We provide a full suite of public affairs services. We help organisations to plan strategies and to build support among MPs and Peers to influence legislation. We also write parliamentary strategies and engagement plans and manage relationships with key political stakeholders. In 2021, The Advocacy Team gave oral evidence to the Select Committee for International Development and we can support organisations to submit written evidence to parliamentary inquiries and to prepare for oral evidence sessions.
Policy Research
High quality, well evidenced policy research is essential to successful campaigning. We have supported our clients to write policy briefings, research reports and we have written policy submissions on behalf of large coalitions of organisations to influence key political forums, including a submission from BOND to influence the UK’s Strategic Defence and Security Review and in 2021 we authored the Communique from civil society organisations around the world to the G7.
Training
We support organisations to roll-out both in-person and virtual advocacy training for staff, volunteers and coalition partners. We work closely with each client to develop a bespoke programme to meet their training needs. We can also provide facilitation for client workshops and staff retreats. In 2022, the Advocacy Team will roll out a training programme where people working in international development can invest in developing their policy, advocacy and research skills.
Events
We have extensive experience in developing and organising bespoke events for clients. We managed major launch events at key political moments, including the launch project Resolution at COP 25 at the invitation of the Chilean Presidency and a pre-launch reception on the Terrace of the House of Commons for the All Party Parliamentary Group of Global Deforestation.
Resource Mobilisation
We have many years of experience leading successful resource mobilisation campaigns, helping to raise billions in financing for some leading multilateral agencies especially in global health and education. We have supported organisations to run national resource mobilisation campaigns targeting the UK Government and coordinated multi-country campaigns for civil society organisations. In 2021/2022 the Advocacy Team is serving as the Project Managers, supporting the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and Innovations in their resource mobilisation campaign which is aiming to raise $3.5bn to support investment in research and development to develop vaccines to end epidemics for good.
News and stories
The Advocacy Team marks International Women’s Day 2024 by exploring Self-Advocacy
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There was no better way to mark #InternationalWomensDay2024 than to learn more about the personal journeys of self-advocacy in the #InternationalDevelopment sector through the experiences of our incredibly inspiring guest speakers. Read more about what our speakers had to say.
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Understanding the UK’s Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) Budget Training Course
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Want to learn where to find these numbers and understand what this data means? Join The Advocacy Team on the 14th May for our in person ODA Training Course.
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Report: Financing Reparations and Loss and Damage – What are the Options?
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The Advocacy Team and Development Reimagined unpacks the data around funding loss and damage through reparatory justice.
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The Advocacy Team Soft-launch Report at the World Bank Annual Meetings 2023: Financing Reparations and Loss and Damage – What are the Options?
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The Advocacy Team and Development Reimagined soft-launches their recent report on funding loss and damage through reparatory justice at the World Bank Annual Meetings in Morocco.
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What does the Provisional Aid Statistics for 2023 show us?
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In 2022, the UK experienced an unprecedented change in its aid spending, as it counted a third of its ODA budget on in-donor refugee costs. Following two years of aid cuts when the UK reduced its ODA to GNI ratio from 0.7% to 0.5%, the increased spending on in-donor refugee costs deepened cuts further. Our Senior Associate, Nasim Salad, tells us more.
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Aid for Asylum?
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The UK government’s new controversial Rwanda migration policy poses many questions, least of all those from an ethics and moral standpoint. But one of the questions people in the aid sector will be asking is; “how much of this policy, if any, will be financed by official development assistance (ODA)?”. Our Senior Associate, Nasim Salad, tells us more
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Press Release: UN Human Rights Chief Advocates for Reparations
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PRESS RELEASE The Advocacy Team commends the recent statement by the UN Rights Chief, Volker Türk urging states to take action on slavery reparations, emphasising the imperative to address historical injustices. This call is a response to ongoing systemic inequalities stemming from the legacy of slavery.
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The Advocacy Team Presents the ODA Training Course – Watch here
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Sign up now for our ODA training course via 'Our Trainings'
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French legislative elections: Path towards democratic progress or risk of ungovernability?
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At first glance, France and the United Kingdom seem to be following opposite trajectories. Following the legislative elections on July 4th, the United Kingdom regained a certain political stability with a clear victory for the left after eight chaotic years since the vote in favour of Brexit. At the same time, France is in turn marked by the breakthrough of a populist and xenophobic party. The Advocacy Team’s Junior Associate, Mathilde Benguigui takes a closer look at the events in France, what might unfold in the days and weeks ahead and what this all means for international co-operation and development.
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What have the UK Provisional Aid Statistics shown us?
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In 2022, the UK experienced an unprecedented change in its aid spending, as it counted a third of its ODA budget on in-donor refugee costs. Following two years of aid cuts when the UK reduced its ODA to GNI ratio from 0.7% to 0.5%, the increased spending on in-donor refugee costs deepened cuts further. Nasim and Nicolo delve in the data.
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Press Release: UN Human Rights Chief Advocates for Reparations
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PRESS RELEASE The Advocacy Team commends the recent statement by the UN Rights Chief, Volker Türk urging states to take action on slavery reparations, emphasising the imperative to address historical injustices. This call is a response to ongoing systemic inequalities stemming from the legacy of slavery. Read Lorriann's statement on the UN chief's remarks.
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Report Soft-launch at the World Bank Annual Meetings 2023: Financing Reparations and Loss and Damage – What are the Options?
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The Advocacy Team and Development Reimagined soft-launches their recent report on funding loss and damage through reparatory justice at the World Bank Annual Meetings in Morocco.
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The Equity Index: Will the Foreign Secretary tackle inequity in the sector?
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Will the Foreign Secretary tackle inequity in the sector? Areeshya Thevamanohar, Anh Le Kim Nguyen, Lorriann Robinson, Alex Martins target this important question.
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