Administrative Lobbying Effectiveness: Women and Environmental Issues in U.S. Foreign Assistance

In: Policy studies journal: an international journal of public policy, Band 11, Heft 4, S. 648-656

Abstract

Compared are the administrative lobbying efforts of women's & environmental groups to influence the US Agency for International Development (AID) to conform with Congressional mandates. In 1973, Congress mandated that AID involve women in its development programs, & AID responded with the establishment of a small, resource-poor monitoring office whose leader nurtured a wider constituency for the issue. In contrast, AID ignored its responsibilities under the National Environmental Policy Act; however, once established environmental groups initiated a suit against AID, its General Council joined the environmental monitoring office & other executive branch advocacy units to increase environmentally sound programming. The progress of these two issues is compared, focusing on interest groups, internal AID structure, & the issues themselves. 26 References. HA.