Why to Engage with Policymakers?
- Learn their challenges
- Put forward your perspectives
- Occupy their Mindspace
When to Engage with Policymakers?
All the time
How to Engage with Policymakers?
Indirect
- Op Eds, Podcasts, Reports
Direct
- Email, answer policy consultations, meetings
Suggestions
- Write, write, write!
- Answer policy consultations
- When emailing, do not present your solutions immediately
- Make it feel that it is their solution
- Present the problem and peek into your approach to solving it
- Write, write, write!
- Take up as many speaking engagements as you can
- Be informed and back your opinions with data
- Wait for the opportune moment
- Policies and politics are two very different things