ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the discussions around the issue and the resulting activities that were undertaken. It describes the evolution of Tearfund’s campaigning and advocacy work in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the tensions and dilemmas that surrounded the decision to start this work. As Tearfund sought to professionalise and enter the mainstream, the question arose of whether it should start doing campaigning and advocacy work. Instead Tearfund decided to venture into policy and advocacy on its own, starting in a slow and measured way. In parallel with all these internal discussions, a young, female Tearfund consultant, acting independently, was instrumental in the formation of a large developing world debt cancellation campaign called ‘Jubilee 2000’. Tearfund’s campaigning and advocacy work started soon after the Operating Principles had been launched and in the context of major discussions about what it meant to do ‘Christian development’.
