What is Policy Advocacy
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This document discusses how chambers of commerce can effectively advocate for policy changes through establishing a policy advocacy committee, embedding advocacy in their vision statement, engaging members and boards to set advocacy agendas, discussing advocacy progress at board meetings, and educating themselves and members on policy issues. Doing so can help chambers become serious players in policymaking, raise their profile among policymakers and businesses, and increase membership by achieving successes.
What is Policy Advocacy
- 1. Chambers effectiveness in policy advocacy
- 5. Public Policies Include: ï‚— Laws and other legislative acts ï‚— Regulations ï‚— Court decisions ï‚— Executive decrees and orders ï‚— Political party platforms ï‚— Institutional policies 5
- 7. Lets! ï‚— Becomes a serious player in the policymaking arena; ï‚— Raises profile and reputation among policymakers and business community; ï‚— Increases membership base, as success brings more supporters 7
- 8. How to go about? ï‚— Policy Advocacy Committee ï‚— Embed advocacy in your vision statement ï‚— Engage members and board to prepare an advocacy agenda ï‚— At each board meeting discuss progress in advocacy agenda ï‚— Educate yourself and your members on policy issues
- 9. ï‚—What else? ï‚—Who will act first?