Organizations spend considerable resources taking staff to international meetings, often without understanding how these meetings work. This book is a unique guide on how to participate and be heard at intergovernmental meetings, whether as a stakeholder or a governmental official. It contains a wealth of essential reference material including tips for navigating the intergovernmental hot spots of New York and Geneva, lists of UN commissions, conferences and permanent missions, contact details of key international organizations, NGOs and stakeholder groups and useful web addresses.

If you have never lobbied or just want to have a better understanding of how the intergovernmental governance process works, this book is the essential resource to make your work much easier.

Table of Contents:

Why Attend?; Evolving Stakeholder Involvement; Preparation and How to be Effective; Scenario Building and SWOT Analyses; Attendance and Participation; Negotiations--Some Tips; Structuring Papers and Statements; Brackets, Terms, Jargon and Acronyms; The Media; Getting There; Maps, Addresses, Resources; UN Conferences and Commissions; Index.