NGOs, too, have an indispensable part to play in monitoring and lobbying.

Most of the projects and programmes implemented had been successful as a result of focused lobbying.

Lobbying advocacy National Network of Women Ministers and Parliamentarians and the Association of Traditional Chiefs of the Niger.

Their lobbying efforts worked well, first to deregulate, and then to have taxpayers pay for the cleanup. Their hope is that it will work once again to keep them free to do as they please, regardless of the risks for taxpayers and the economy.

It is also hoped that some lobbying could influence the legislation in defense of woman entrepreneur in the informal sector.

Another strategy trained women for participation in national politics and political parties by helping them develop advocacy and lobbying skills.

They are also lobbying to ensure that legislators recognize the importance of drafting of laws that guarantee and promote gender equality.

The September summit would then become a lobbying bazaar as countries seek to promote their national ambitions or to protect their national interests.

I expected to hear about lobbying efforts and nutrition, but mostly I learned about supply chains. The discussion focused mainly on how food can be procured, prepared, and delivered within the constraints of pricing, availability, and each school district s facilities (which determine what kind of food they can prepare and serve).

The revolving door between Congress and lobbying firms appears to have been central to how the financial sector became deregulated, which effectively allowed excessive risk taking in the run up to the crisis. In another paper, Igan and Mishra, working with Thierry Tressel, found that firms taking more risks before 2008 were also engaged in more lobbying.

The Special Secretariat on Policies for Women and the Women's Caucus of the National Congress are lobbying for approval of these new pieces of legislation.

In Kenya, UNIFEM assisted HIV AIDS and women's networks in lobbying for a gender sensitive HIV AIDS control and prevention bill, which was submitted to Parliament.

Go to ClimateCrisis.org or CarbonCalculator.com and buy carbon credits. You could join other leaders in mandating, lobbying for mandated cap and trade in U.S. greenhouse gas reductions.

And I thought, I'm buggered if I'm going to spend the rest of my life lobbying for these crummy governments to do what needs to be done.

Global Youth Action is trying to impact policy and lobbying organizations and authorities to include youth decision and policy making processes that will inevitably shape their lives.

SAGE, Plan Guinée, APAC Guinée, etc) have been reinforced, and they are now actively participating in lobbying, awareness raising and promotion on behalf of education for girls.

Civil society also played an important role in lobbying on behalf of women of African descent to ensure that they were at the centre of any development approach.

There isn't anybody in Washington lobbying to make it happen or in those municipalities, to build out their cities with these wireless networks because there's zero ongoing communications cost.

Politicians in both Hawaii and Guam have been lobbying hard to become the chosen destination for the carrier owing to the significant impact it would have on the local economy.

As a result, the big transnational institutions are lobbying hard for a pan European approach to banking supervision and regulation (and implicitly for fiscal bailouts should that supervision and regulation fail).

Ms. Herfkens then proceeded to suggest proactive ways to take action, such as lobbying the Governments of developed countries to fulfill their promise of devoting 0.7 of their GNP to development aid.

The aim is to reach the vast majority of the Dutch population through radio and television commercials, the who does what' (www.wiedoetwat.nl) website, public relations, campaigns, debates, media lobbying and free cards'.

One might think that banks would counter balance the mutual fund industry s lobbying efforts, because the likely effect of forcing money market funds to pay for more of their systemic costs would be to expand funds flowing directly to banks. But inflows through money market funds are not so bad for banks, which get the cash without having to set aside reserves or pay for deposit insurance.

The offer of this type of service grew significantly in the country as a result of demands by the women's and feminist movements, lobbying by health professionals, and commitment by the Executive Power.

Act No. 1600 was a very important law, and its successful introduction had been the result of intensive lobbying by civil society and effective coordination by non governmental organizations (NGOs) with the Women's Bureau.

Simultaneous progress on both substance and process is needed. Parliaments and multilateral institutions must do a better job at facilitating cooperative policy implementation, which will require a willingness to reform outmoded institutions, including political lobbying.

More importantly, the lobbying of the quasi governmental mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would not have been so successful without the idea of the ownership society. How could anyone oppose turning every American into an owner?

I have no first hand knowledge of the legislative process in the United States. But, as an outsider, I am amazed at the apparent intensity of lobbying, and at the amounts of money that firms and their associations spend.

The Israeli Sexual Assault Victim's Help Centers Union is a parent organization to all help centers operating in Israel, working as a social change agent on a national level, lobbying legislation amendments, and issuing annual reports on sexual assaults.

George W. Bush has been picking up the phone to call Senators, lobbying them to support Mr Kavanaugh, who worked in the White House for Mr Bush and through him met his wife Ashley, who was Mr Bush's personal secretary.

But causality might also run in the opposite direction. Countries that are more developed, and have political systems that are more accountable to voters and less vulnerable to corporate lobbying, may lead to better corporate governance and investor protection rules.

In Costa Rica, the rice industry took the traditional route of lobbying for protection. Though there was no market failure to remedy, the government obliged, introducing high import tariffs and subsidies for powerful local growers as a result, productivity declined.

But this is exactly what is happening. Not only do companies refuse to disclose to their shareholders how much they spend on political campaigns they also are lobbying hard to prevent any rule that would require them to do so.

Aims and Purpose CIDSE is an international coalition of Catholic development organisations based in Europe and North America, working with organisations and partners in all continents on issues of advocacy lobbying and campaigning, development programmes, development education and peace building.

The Special Secretariat on Policies for Women and the Women's Caucus of the National Congress have worked jointly to defend and promote women's rights by organizing seminars, public audiences and debates, and lobbying for the approval of non discriminatory legislation.

The region s business leaders have been unable to prevent deteriorating foreign relations from harming their interests. By contrast, military lobbying now deeply influences foreign and defense policies witness China s double digit increase in defense spending and rising US arms sales in the region.

Second, CO2 is dangerously changing the world s climate, even if many Big Oil interests would have us believe otherwise. (So, too, did the tobacco companies spend vast sums on political lobbying and bogus science to deny the links between smoking and lung cancer.)

Indeed, America s trade deficit in manufactures is roughly equal to its current account deficit (the amount by which domestic investment exceeds domestic saving). So those concerned with job losses in US manufacturing should join the chorus lobbying for a much smaller fiscal deficit.

A big increase in lobbying expenditures helps to persuade legislators to switch their votes. And whether any of the lobbyists working on a bill also worked for a legislator in the past sways the stance on that bill in favor of deregulation.

The results of the various awareness, information and lobbying activities of these NGOs were evidenced for the first time in the great number of female candidates who joined the election campaigns of June 2002, and their encouraging standings on the electoral lists.

And behind this powerful disagreement between how to close that gap, there's the worst kind of cynical party politics, the worst kind of insider baseball, lobbying, all of that stuff, but there's also this powerfully interesting, respectful disagreement between two fundamentally different economic philosophies.

All of these serious human rights questions expose the fact that Russia's legal institutions remains half formed. For example, the Duma has taken far too long to enact a law on lobbying, which in most developed democracies clearly defines what constitutes acceptable and unacceptable behavior.

In addition to analyzing information about lobbying expenditures, the authors map out the network connections of lobbyists (known collectively as K Street, because so many have their Washington offices there) and legislators. For example, lobbyists were often previously employed by legislators on their staffs.

The lobbying and civil society activities should also be encouraged and organized in developing countries so that their respective Governments are held accountable and their budgets transparent, ultimately preventing corruption and assuring that money is being spent on primary education and community development initiatives.

After intensive lobbying, public campaigning and top level political negotiations in the winter and spring (which resulted in revised proposals that had reflected, in particular, Serb concerns), late in May representatives of the Republika Srpska refused to agree to the proposed model police reform.