Essential guide for all those involved in international meetings – including NGOs, companies, industry associations professional groups, trade unions, government missions, and UN and other intergovernmental staff – who are trying to influence the agendas of international agencies and meetings.

Full of detailed advice on the preparation and presentation of ideas, the consultation and negotiating process, and practical and logistical matters.
This is a unique guide on how to lobby at intergovernmental meetings, whether as a stakeholder or a government official. Many of the approaches taken are also relevant to national lobbying.

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

If you have not lobbied or just want to have a better understanding of how the intergovernmental governance process works then this book will give you an insight and tools to make your work easier.

The book is based on 10 years of lobbying at the international level and has stories to illustrate how and how not to do things.

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