Clearly, the particular tactic chosen will depend on the issue at stake, its gravity and urgency. For most routine kind of work, a newsletter is the most appropriate instrument. It is also an important medium for networking, and for keeping members informed about the activities of the organisation, what happens in other parts of the world, and to share experiences. The Entebbe Workshop made a strong recommendation for the disabled peoples assembled to start their own newsletter. This was addressed largely to the issue of networking rather than lobbying, but of course, it is relevant to lobbying and advocacy as well.
All levels are important, depending on the issues at stake.
An initiative can start from a local level and move upwards. Alternatively, it could start at the international level and move down to the regional, national and local levels. The workshop also recommended that the disability movement should lobby and advocate for its representation at national and other levels of legislatures. Such information could also be fed into the proposed newsletter. We have to actively engage the state in debate on economic policy and national development.