advocate
The charity provides advice, help, and advocacy for older people.
a consumer information and advocacy organization
They have an excellent reputation for advocacy on behalf of rivers and freshwater resources.
We joined a club that promotes cycling for fun and fitness through advocacy and education.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Backing, supporting & defending
adopt
affirmation
ally yourself to/with someone
argumentation
back someone up
bail out
bet
buoy
champion
commitment
flag-waving
pander to someone/something
prop something up
provide
provide for someone
rec
root
solidly
sustenance
underpin

advocacy | Business English

advocacy
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈædvəkəsi/us
public support of an idea, plan, or way of doing something:
an advocacy group/organizationHe got a reminder from the business advocacy group that he should be looking at taxes.
LAW
the work of defending people in court:
The Prison Law Office provides free legal advocacy to inmates.

Examples of advocacy

advocacy
To begin, venues are directly tied to policy solutions, and advocacy groups do have preferences in this regard.
My point is not that the profession should refrain from robust advocacy of public policies that would clearly enhance the health and wellbeing of populations.
There, local advocacy groups have controlled far more than one might imagine, given the popular impression of omnipotent real estate developers.
However, the prevalence of venue shopping does not necessarily mean that advocacy groups proceed through each of the cognitive stages described above.
That his written statements about the bridge produce an image at once ' ' complex ' ' and ' ' ambiguous ' ' - more ' ' antipathy ' ' than ' ' advocacy ' ' - has often seemed irrelevant.
When discussing possible collaborative strategies, participants suggested exchanging experiences on local reconciliation, and attuning human rights advocacy.
This is precisely the kind of advocacy history in search of a usable past for which excuses can be made, if necessary.
With respect to protective order applications, some consider "advocacy work" to amount to little more than helping victims navigate through bureaucratic mazes.
However, the success of the opposition's advocacy efforts varied.
While by no means incompatible in principle, as any politician will state, the demands of advocacy and of comprehension can be contrasting.
If and when these understandings become embedded within a particular venue, advocacy groups are likely to bypass further opportunities for venue change.
It shows that nursing homes were the primary focus of citizen advocacy in long-term care.
She writes with conviction of her support for and advocacy of the hospice approach to the care of the terminally ill and their families.
Second, advocacy groups choose venues not only to advance substantive policy goals but also to serve organizational needs, or reinforce organizational identities.
Narrowing historical analysis to policy advocacy undermines its utility for option appraisal.
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Collocations withadvocacy

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advocacy effort
In 2004, after decades of contamination in the village and advocacy efforts for health services, the government built a clinic on the other side of the village.
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