ABSTRACT
This chapter defines social and political advocacy, with special attention to education advocacy. It introduces the strategy elements of education advocacy. The chapter discusses the organizational environments of civil society organizations (CSOs) and illustrates how advocacy strategies influence an organization's environment. It analyzes six practices that support education advocacy. The advocacy approach specifically targeted to the modification of public and private actors' decisions or practices on behalf of groups that receive a low-quality education builds upon the more general definition of education advocacy. The chapter provides guidance on how to incorporate education advocacy effectively into an organizations' programs and on how to generate the funds needed to do so. The challenges for large-scale change in education are so daunting that CSOs cannot affect change on their own, such as reframing education as a human right.
