Chapter 2 - Monitoring, Advocacy and NGOs in general

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This Chapter looks generally at Monitoring, Advocacy and the NGO. It looks at what NGOs are and what they do (and, by implication, what they are not and what they do not do). It clarifies the nature of Monitoring and Advocacy, the particular strengths these two strategies can bring to anti-corruption work and looks at ways that they can complement each other. Chapters 5, 6, and 7 look at the same three subjects, but take a "how-to" approach, suggesting how they could optimize their work in (respectively) NGO Management, Monitoring and Advocacy.

Chapter Contents

NGOs - what they are and what they do

Three Sectors of the state

Figure 1: Three Sectors to the State

Specific characteristics of NGOs

Characteristics of NGOs that fight corruption

The Limitations of NGOs as a tool to fight corruption

Possible Corruption in NGOs themselves

 

Monitoring – what it is and what it does

Introduction

NGO Monitoring

The Targets of Monitoring

Key Activities in Monitoring

Testing the Rhetoric and Finding where the Real Problem is

Monitoring Investigates the Functioning of Systems       

Monitoring Checks Compliance with International Standards

Monitoring is a Tool that Needs Access to Information

Stakeholders

Monitoring is a Tool that is Valuable in Itself, but is made more

Effective when joined with Public Information and Advocacy.

 

Advocacy – what it is and what it does

Introduction

NGO Advocacy

The Issue for an Advocacy Campaign

Key approaches in Advocacy

Advocacy requires Appropriate Targets

Advocacy requires Coalitions

Learning to use the Political Environment

Most Good Advocacy involves the Media

Gathering and Disseminating Relevant Information

Organised Actions

Advocacy needs Competent NGOs and is built on Good Monitoring

 

Annex 2/1: Schematic of Civil Society Organisations and the State

Author(s): Richard Holloway