How to do advocacy in the third sector
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2025 4:26 am
The practice of advocacy in the third sector is still something that raises many doubts among professionals working in the area of Institutional and Government Relations (RIG). This is because there are some peculiarities when it comes to structuring these activities.
In order to demystify the subject, the Inteligov Community held a special event . To talk about RIG in the third sector, Raphael Caldas, founder and CEO of Inteligov, welcomed Marcello Fragano Baird, master and doctor in political science, professor of International Relations at ESPM and Public Administration at FGV, and advocacy coordinator at ACT Promoção da Saúde.
Check out the main highlights of the meeting in the article we prepared!
Starting a career in advocacy
At the beginning of the conversation, the professor talks about norway mobile database how his interest in political science arose and highlighted the work he did as an advisor at the Municipal Secretariat of International Relations of the City of São Paulo.
According to him, although the Municipal Secretariat of International Relations functioned more as a “half-way Secretariat”, or as a support that connected the Secretariats of Culture and Structure with related Secretariats in other cities around the world with which they had partnerships, it was very good to actively participate in public initiatives.
“That’s when I started to develop an interest in the public sector and public policies. It was great to be part of building projects that could have a positive impact on people’s lives,” explains Baird.
After his three-year stint at the city hall, Baird began his master's degree in political science after discovering that he wanted to research lobbying and political influence. “ The Brazilian contribution to political science is very rich in terms of understanding the Legislative Branch, voting, and coalition presidentialism, but it ends up being restricted to these aspects, failing to address in detail the interest groups that influence the functioning of public policies , ” he explains.
In order to demystify the subject, the Inteligov Community held a special event . To talk about RIG in the third sector, Raphael Caldas, founder and CEO of Inteligov, welcomed Marcello Fragano Baird, master and doctor in political science, professor of International Relations at ESPM and Public Administration at FGV, and advocacy coordinator at ACT Promoção da Saúde.
Check out the main highlights of the meeting in the article we prepared!
Starting a career in advocacy
At the beginning of the conversation, the professor talks about norway mobile database how his interest in political science arose and highlighted the work he did as an advisor at the Municipal Secretariat of International Relations of the City of São Paulo.
According to him, although the Municipal Secretariat of International Relations functioned more as a “half-way Secretariat”, or as a support that connected the Secretariats of Culture and Structure with related Secretariats in other cities around the world with which they had partnerships, it was very good to actively participate in public initiatives.
“That’s when I started to develop an interest in the public sector and public policies. It was great to be part of building projects that could have a positive impact on people’s lives,” explains Baird.
After his three-year stint at the city hall, Baird began his master's degree in political science after discovering that he wanted to research lobbying and political influence. “ The Brazilian contribution to political science is very rich in terms of understanding the Legislative Branch, voting, and coalition presidentialism, but it ends up being restricted to these aspects, failing to address in detail the interest groups that influence the functioning of public policies , ” he explains.