My approach to public policy advocacy support is to enhance the expertise within your organization. This approach is founded in the belief that your organization and your leadership know your constituency best.

My advocacy support services can fill capacity gaps arising from time constraints or human resource limitations.

Services available include:

• developing an advocacy strategy for a particular intervention or engagement
• drafting submissions to a government entity like a commission or task force
• drafting submissions to Parliamentary committees
• developing and refining your messaging in a consistent way across your organization’s advocacy activities
• developing comprehensive advocacy strategies.

Flat rate packages are available for single event interventions to help you control costs at the front end.

Other fee structures are available for more complex initiatives.

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We can all use a little support now and then.

Is your organization short on staff to produce an important report?

Do you need an urgent re-write of a document to meet a looming deadline?

Whether you need a discussion paper with impact, or a clearly written report, I am here to help.

Just click on the button below to schedule an initial free consultation of 30 minutes.

We live in a world with challenging, ever changing geo-political, economic and environmental pressures. Government policy and priorities must evolve to anticipate and meet the needs of citizens.

Sound, creative policy analysis and development are essential to good governance and the well-being of citizens. Governments and NGOs must constantly identify and evaluate policy options for decision-making. Evidence-based policy and decision-making utilizes sound data and research methods, clarity of thinking and creative problem solving. Human rights due diligence should be a part of strategic planning, policy development and evaluation.

Human rights due diligence - an essential part of policy development

Human rights due diligence is an essential part of legislative, policy and program development. This is because human rights education, promotion and compliance mechanisms support peace, security, good governance and the well being of all citizens.

All governments have legal obligations to ensure human rights are respected and upheld in their decisions.

In addition, governments have responsibilities to promote human rights by non-government actors such as businesses. For example, human rights impacts on Indigenous peoples must be considered in government approval processes for major projects.

The role and impact of businesses on the enjoyment of human rights is an area of emerging standards at the international level. A few examples include:

• ongoing discussion to build on the work of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (adopted by the UN Human Rights Council in 2011); and
• the Women’s Empowerment Principles developed collaboratively by UN Women and the UN Global Compact.

I offer services and expertise in:

• policy and legislative development
• concept papers and policy analysis
• research and analysis to support commissions, task forces, working groups
• design and implementation of advocacy and engagement strategies
• human rights due diligence including gender-based analysis, inter-sectional analysis and the rights of Indigenous peoples.

Human rights issues are a daily part of public dialogue and an essential consideration in public policy development.

Wendy Moss has worked for governments and for NGOs to advance public understanding of human rights and to improve government capacity to meet its duties to protect and enforce the human rights of all.

As a speaker, writer and policy consultant in the area of human rights, her practice portfolio includes:

• domestic and international human rights
• policy and legislative development
• policy analysis
• advocacy strategies
• engagement strategies
• Indigenous peoples rights
• gender-based analysis and approaches to intersectional analysis.