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Advocacy and Policy Reform 

 

Political, social and systemic barriers often prevent individuals and communities from creating positive change. Advocacy and policy reform can help bring about meaningful progress on the world’s more complex problems.

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examples of ways to support advocacy and
policy reform
  • Fund efforts to address climate change and protect the environment
  • Support food security and land rights
  • Support efforts to defend human rights
  • Support advocacy efforts focused on U.S. foreign aid

RESOURCES IN ADVOCACY AND POLICY REFORM

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More than 1 billion people are hungry in the world.
Success Story
Grassroots International Partnership Gives Access to Clean Water
Brazil has more than 10 million people without regular access to clean and safe drinking water. Many of these people live in Northeastern Brazil and for years have struggled to survive without support from national public policymakers. With the support of Grassroots International and Polo Sindical, an association of rural unions, the region now has hope for access to clean water through a community-driven project to provide low-cost water cisterns to families. The groups building the cisterns organized and lobbied and now the federal government is helping to finance cistern production. What started as a self-help movement with limited resources has now become a national policy – embodied in the Million Cistern Project that will provide drinking water to 5 million people.
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General Resources for Global Giving
General resources selected by The Seattle Foundation to help you learn more about international issues and global giving.
World poverty seen falling sharply but patchily
The share of the population of developing regions whose people live in extreme poverty is expected to fall to 15 percent by 2015, down from 46 percent in 1990, according to the United Nations. The gains stem largely from robust economic growth in countries such as China and India, the world's two most populous countries.
Getting Smart on Aid
How can we most effectively break cycles of poverty?
Learning the Lessons of the Millennium Development Goals
In September 2011, the UN general assembly will meet to discuss how the pace can be accelerated to meet the 2015 deadline for the millennium development goals, and what should replace the current framework after 2015. The task of ending poverty is far from over; one in four people in developing countries is still living on less than $1.25 dollars a day.
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