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Advocacy

(1) The process of actively supporting the cause of, speaking or writing in favour of, or defending or interceding on behalf of a person (case advocacy) or group (class advocacy). Advocacy may include providing information and tools for self-empowerment in patients’ health and social care, and helping them obtain needed services.
(2) Action to assure the best possible services for or intervention in the service system on behalf of an individual or group.
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She stated that the objective of the training was to increase skills of participants in building and nurturing a sustainable organization, strengthen financial management capacity and enhance resource mobilization skills of the members of the Oyo and Kaduna advocacy working groups.
Students receiving advocacy education were shown how to identify their legislator and how to review pending legislation.
Burns (2015) discovered that school librarians have "difficulty articulating advocacy as a process designed to develop a stakeholder relationship with the intent of gaining support" (p.
In applying the TPB to understand the influences on whether school counselors advocate for LGB students or not, we examined: (a) attitudes toward LGB persons, (b) advocacy self-efficacy, (c) motivation to comply, and (d) LGB advocacy intention (see Figure 1).
Atif Ikram Sheikh, President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry thanked CIPE for collaborating with ICCI in organizing an important training program on public policy advocacy. He said such training programs should be organized in all major chambers of commerce and business associations of the country to educate businessmen on how to make effective advocacy efforts for achieving desired results.
The rulemaking agency must give every appropriate consideration to comments provided by Advocacy and must respond (in a formally prescribed manner) to those comments.
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The greatest impact of self-advocacy for adults with developmental disabilities on supports is noted in particular for advocacy advisors.
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DDC Advocacy, a major player in technology-based, fully integrated public affairs and grassroots communications, will offer its services across Omnicom's companies.
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