Presentation by Chris Roche, Director, Institute for Human Security and Social Change La Trobe University

1. Coalitions, collective action and
How Change Happens
UPNG 16 August 2018
Chris Roche
Institute for Human Security and Social Change,
La Trobe University

2. Two Cases of Collective Action
• The Sin Tax in the
Philippines –
passed in 2012
•Shujaaz in Kenya

3. The Health
Argument & Allies
• Doctors
• Medical Students
• WHO

4. The Wealth Argument
& Allies
• Doctors
• Medical Students
• WHO
• Health Ministries
• Dept of Finance
• MPs

5. The Equity Argument
& Allies
• Doctors
• Medical Students
• WHO
• Health Ministries
• MPs
• NGOs/Social
Movements

6. Awareness Raising,
Advocacy by
experienced activists
was key

7. The Competition Argument & Allies of Convenience
• British American Tobacco vs Philipp Morris
• San Miguel & the beer lobby
• Investors
Classic ‘Baptist and Bootlegger’ coalition members

8. http://www.dlprog.org/publications/achieving-reforms-in-oligarchical-democracies-the-
role-of-leadership-and-coalitions-in-the-philippines.php
For more see here….

9. Some General Findings from
The Developmental Leadership Program
Coalitions are more likely to promote transformational
change, when they:
• are formed in response to local events and critical
junctures;
• are locally driven and owned;
• share a common purpose, interests and sometimes
values (or are able to navigate between conflicting values);
• have adaptive and distributed leadership that is regularly
renegotiated.
The creation of safe spaces in which coalition members and
others can be engaged in processes of reframing attitudes and
beliefs, often by sharing personal stories, is often important.
http://publications.dlprog.org/Brief_PW.pdf

10. Some General Findings from
The Developmental Leadership Program