Lobbying & Advocacy

Advocacy: The process or act of raising awareness or providing information in favor of an idea, cause or policy.  One can educate other people and make them aware about the actual situation to make them convinced about some policy/ issue.

Lobbying: Any attempt to influence specific legislation generally conducted in either or each of the following ways:

• Directly contacting, or urging the public to contact, policy makers for the purpose of proposing, supporting, or opposing certain legislation, or
• By advocating the adoption or rejection of targeted legislation.