Part 3: How to formulate enabling environment reforms

*All documents have AMBER headings

This part of the toolkit guides Employers' Organizations in their efforts to transform the findings of their EESE assessment into clear and coherent advocacy proposals that describe how the enabling environment for sustainable enterprises can be improved. It contains three sections.

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Section 3.1: Formulating an advocacy effort

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Section 3.2: Implementing & managing an advocacy process

These above sections describe a series of practical steps the Employers' Organizations can take to turn the findings of the EESE assessment into an agenda for reform or advocacy strategy.

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Section 3.3: Advocacy Tools for formulating enabling environment reforms

This section contains a collection of practical tools that Employers' Organizations can use when formulating reform proposals and pursuing an advocacy strategy.

The Advocacy Tools are split into three groups:

• Group A: Tools to assist policy development
• Group B: Tools to assist outreach and communication strategies
• Group C: Tools to measure impact

 See Box 3 for a list of the Assessment Tools contained in this section.

 

Box 3: Advocacy Tools
Group A: Tools to assist policy development	Advocacy Tool 1: Assessing the EOs advocacy capacity Advocacy Tool 2: Costing proposals Advocacy Tool 3: Providing Alternatives Advocacy Tool 4: Managing policy conflicts Advocacy Tool 5: Developing policy position papers
Group B: Tools to assist outreach and communication strategies	Advocacy Tool 6: Communication strategies Advocacy Tool 7: Coalition Building
Group C: Tools to measure impact	Advocacy Tool 8: Implementing and tracking progress