TOP Websites

Advocacy tool kit.
http://www.psr.org/dwtoolkit.pdf
Site from Knowledge to Action. How to become a safe drinking water advocate. A safe drinking water advocacy kit, from the Physicians For Social Responsibility (USA).

Advocacy - what is it all about?
http://www.wateraid.org.uk/site/in_depth/why_advocacy/155.asp?keyword=advocacy%20toolkit (PDF only)
A guide to advocacy work in the water and sanitation sector. The most recent valuable resource for anyone working in the water and sanitation sector who wants to undertake advocacy work. The Sourcebook aims to explain the different advocacy tools, provide practical examples of advocacy work, provide information on key policy actors and processes and how to influence them at international levels and to provide information on agencies, networks and institutions engaged in advocacy work in the freshwater sector. See also Resources section.

You may also want to have a look at WaterAid's Corporate Advocacy Strategy, also on the website, under the section, 'How we work.' This is an example of how and why an organisation has included advocacy in its own approaches to WSS.

Communication for Development News.
http://www.comminit.com/commfordevnews.html
Contains summaries of news articles pertaining to using communication for development purposes. The Drumbeat contains selected programmes, data, materials, people, and media sources from communication, development and change organisations.

The Communication Initiative (?global forces...local choices...critical voices...telling stories?).
http://www.comminit.com/
An excellent searchable database on all components of communication for development. Partners involved: The Rockefeller Foundation, BBC World Service Trust, The CHANGE Project, CIDA, The European Union, Exchange, FAO, Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs, The Panos Institute, Soul City, The Synergy Project, UNAIDS, UNICEF, USAID, WHO.

The Drumbeat.
http://www.comminit.com/drum_beat.html
Contains selected programmes, data, materials, people, and media sources from communication, development and change organisations.

Making Waves.
http://www.wateraid.org.uk/site/in_depth/174.asp?keyword=making%20waves
Civil society advocacy on international water policy documents the seminar organised by WaterAid in December 2000, on behalf of the UK Water Network, in response to the need for a greater understanding of freshwater policy making institutions, and to strengthen the NGO voice in the policy debate. The aim of the seminar was to provide information on key institutions that shape freshwater policy globally, regionally and nationally, and to share experiences and knowledge of ways to influence them.

Resources on Participatory Approaches and Communication for Water and Sanitation Programming: annotated references.
http://db.irc.nl/index.php/home/content/view/full/1823
By D. de Jong, S. Luciani and V. Mendonca, Advocacy and Communication Strategies Working Group, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council/IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and UNICEF, 1997. Provides annotated publications, training materials, courses and workshops and a selection of Web sites relevant to the area of communication and participatory approaches. The second part contains annotated materials divided in categories related to the planning and implementation of advocacy and communication for improved water and environmental sanitation programmes.

World Water Day.
http://www.worldwaterday.org/advocacy/index.html
A practical Water for Development advocacy guide for World Water Day 2002. There is also one available on the theme of Water and Health Advocacy for World Water Day 2001. This site maintained by IRC also contains content guides, photos and events and an archive of WWD since 1994.