This article argues that globalization impels NGOs to engage further in advocacy work, and that globalization provides important new opportunities as well as significant challenges. In particular, NGOs both north and south will have to form strategic alliances. The article uses Oxfam GB's history of advocacy to examine options open to NGOs and to suggest future directions and possible criteria for effective advocacy.
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