Global advocacy

response to Covid-19
Global advocacy on EES
● Restorative Economy vision - addressing extremes of poverty and inequality and living
within environmental limits.

● Delivering the EES Objective on advocacy, influencing and movement building.

● Global Advocacy Team with 3 sub-teams:

○ UK Campaigns
○ Global Campaigns
○ Policy & Research
Adapting existing EES advocacy
● Continuing advocacy on waste, such as launching The Burning Question, where
appropriate drawing out the linkages

● Adapting our climate advocacy to focus more on green and just recovery with a
focus later on COP26 in November 2021

● Using material from the forthcoming Abundant Africa report to speak into the
crisis on the continent
Covid-19 reactive advocacy
● Immediate advocacy
○ Access to vaccines, debt relief and emergency funding, strong role for faith
communities in the response
○ Just and sustainable recovery messages

● Longer term advocacy

○ Norms & values shift - a world ‘rebooted’
○ Just and sustainable recovery - the kind of ‘reboot’ we want, drawing on EES vision
Norms & values shift
● The World Rebooted

● Noting shifts in norms & values:

○ Connectedness
○ Valuing life over productivity
○ Imagining change at scale

● Inviting churches into conversation

● UK focus - regional versions

possible
What kind of ‘reboot’?
● Reboot Campaign launched 27 May, calling on
UK Govt to rebuild in ways that:

○ prioritise the poorest

○ tackle the climate emergency
○ build a better world for everyone

● Restoring Societies policy paper sets out asks in

more detail
Global movement response
● China, Brazil, Uganda, Nigeria

● Movement building: Catalytic relationships with strategic individuals or groups to enable them
to mobilise large numbers of ordinary people to bring about change

● Existing grassroots infrastructure we had built enabled swift response to Covid-19

One ally in China
mobilised resources
from the China
Foundation to
support a TF
partners in Nepal
with handwashing
tanks
Face shields from
Mobilised resources from
ordinary people to support
Masaka regional Referral
Hospital in rural Uganda.
Nigeria’s Jos
Green Centre
responds to
COVID
Supporting groups in the Amazon
with food, hygiene, women are
producing face masks…..
Interested in following up?
● Using The World Rebooted or developing your own version?

● Advocating on Reboot campaign issues, like a fair and just recovery?

● Learning more about our movement building approach?

Get in touch!
sarah.edwards@tearfund.org
hannington.muyenje@tearfund.org