How to Lobby at Intergovernmental Meetings

This is a guide on how to participate and be heard at intergovernmental meetings. Based on 10 years of lobbying at the international level, this book provides advice on the preparation and presentation of ideas, the consultation and negotiating process, and practical and logistical matters.

The book is meant for all those involved in international meetings - including non-government organisations (NGOs), companies, industry associations, professional groups, trade unions, government missions, and United Nations and other intergovernmental staff - who are trying to influence the agendas of international agencies and meetings.

It aims to take the reader through preparing ideas, consulting with others, helping to understand how governments prepare and how tounderstand the terms used in these meetings. "Organizations spend considerable resources taking staff to international meetings, often without understanding how these meetings work. This book is intended to help make those resources better spent, as those attending can now better understand what they are going to attend."

Table of Contents

• Why Attend?
• Evolving Stakeholder Involvement
• Preparation and How to be Effective
• Scenario Building and SWOT Analyses
• Attendance and Participation
• Negotiations – Some Tips
• Structuring Papers and Statements
• Brackets, Terms, Jargon and Acronyms
• The Media
• Getting There
• Maps, Addresses, Resources
• UN Conferences and Commissions
• Index

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