{"id":116161,"date":"2021-05-10T13:38:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T10:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/?page_id=116161"},"modified":"2025-01-14T16:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:42:53","slug":"advocacy-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/en\/work\/advocacy-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class=\"block-hero full-width id-block\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mita_teemme_Vaikuttamistoiminta-1.jpg');\">\n\n\t<div class=\"bg-mobile\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mita_teemme_Vaikuttamistoiminta-1-1024x410.jpg');\"><\/div>\n\n\t\n\t<div class=\"curtain\"><\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner-blocks entry-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"is-style-brush\" ><span class=\"bg\">\nAdvocacy\n<\/span><\/h2><h2 class=\"is-style-brush mobile\" ><span class=\"bg\">Advocacy<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"subpage-navigation id-block full-width\">\n    <div class=\"container-lg\">\n        <div class=\"row\">\n            <div class=\"col\">\n                <ul class=\"pages\">\n                                        <li class=\"page ancestor\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/en\/work\/\">What we do<\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n                    \n                                        <li class=\"page current\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/en\/work\/advocacy-work\/\">Advocacy<\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n                                        <li class=\"page\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/en\/work\/gender\/\">Gender<\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n                                        <li class=\"page\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/en\/work\/humanitarian-assistance\/\">Humanitarian Assistance<\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n                                        <li class=\"page\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/en\/work\/education\/\">Right to Education<\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n                                        <li class=\"page\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/en\/work\/right-livelihood\/\">Right to Livelihood<\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n                                        <li class=\"page\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/en\/work\/right-to-peace\/\">Right to Peace<\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n                                        <li class=\"page\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/en\/work\/sustainable-development-goals\/\">Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n                                    <\/ul>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"lead\">The purpose of our advocacy is to support the rights of the most vulnerable people to quality education, livelihood and peace. Our objective is to promote sustainable development and equality by achieving changes in policies, attitudes and laws.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unjust structures exist&nbsp;locally, in national legislation and regional and international cooperation bodies.&nbsp;We believe that local communities should have the opportunity to influence their situation, and together with our partners, we&nbsp;strive to influence decision-makers&nbsp;on all levels.&nbsp;Our work includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>strengthening local civil\u00a0society\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>influencing in political decision-making\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>bringing local voices into international decision-making processes\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Realising&nbsp;sustainable change requires considering&nbsp;the roles of&nbsp;rights-holders and&nbsp;duty-bearers&nbsp;and directing our action towards them&nbsp;by&nbsp;empowering&nbsp;people to exercise and claim their rights and supporting&nbsp;authorities and decision-makers to meet their obligations.&nbsp;Our&nbsp;role is to facilitate dialogue&nbsp;and&nbsp;strengthen accountability between&nbsp;rights-holders and duty-bearers, and&nbsp;our projects&nbsp;contribute to sustainable change&nbsp;through awareness-raising, capacity-building\u202fand advocacy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FCA&nbsp;has&nbsp;observer status&nbsp;at&nbsp;ECOSOC (UN&nbsp;Economic and Social Council), which allows us to&nbsp;strengthen&nbsp;our&nbsp;international advocacy work and that&nbsp;of our partners.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We promote human rights&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;FCA promotes the realisation of human rights by supporting local women\u2019s organisations, marginalised communities, religious and traditional leaders, and other parties that work for human rights.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We support fragile&nbsp;states&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We work in unstable countries where the will or ability to take care of the basic needs of citizens simply does not exist. We support the decision-makers of these countries so that they can make responsible decisions.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes, large enterprises&nbsp;can&nbsp;also&nbsp;significantly impact&nbsp;the lives of people in developing countries, which is why we&nbsp;build bridges between corporate decision-makers and local communities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We convey information&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Local decisions are&nbsp;often&nbsp;made at an international level, so&nbsp;we&nbsp;seek&nbsp;to make local voices heard by international actors,&nbsp;such as&nbsp;EU and UN bodies.&nbsp;Global&nbsp;advocacy\u202finvolves relaying information between a variety of actors.&nbsp;We are also&nbsp;actively involved in&nbsp;Finland\u2019s political dialogue, particularly&nbsp;when&nbsp;Finland\u2019s&nbsp;decisions&nbsp;affect human rights in our operating areas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of our advocacy is to support the rights of the most vulnerable people to quality education, livelihood and peace. 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