Bringing legislators and communities face to face – how one Congolese organisation has changed how laws are written
Well Grounded is publishing a series of blog posts that tells the stories of people and organisations who have spoken out, who have found new ways to solve old problems and who have stuck at it in impossible circumstances in the pursuit of social and environmental justice. Be inspired! Civil society organisations can influence legislation in all sorts of ways: lobbying, campaigning, researching, making proposals and so forth. One effective approach is to work directly with the people who develop laws and to support them in developing the very text that becomes legislation. An organisation that has done this really successfully [...]