Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
advocacy
French translation:
campagnes de sensibilisation
English term
Lebanon
Business and IT/tech, 15+ years
Native in: French (Variants: Canadian, Standard-France) 
, English (Variants: UK, US) 
Works in: English to French, French to English, English to Arabic
advocacy
"Office of Violence Prevention
The Office of Violence Prevention partners with community stakeholders to investigate and understand the causes and consequences of gun violence.
The office is committed to preventing gun violence from occurring—through primary prevention programs, policy interventions, and advocacy."
| 4 +4 | campagnes de sensibilisation |
FX Fraipont (X)
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| 3 +5 | sensibilisation/plaidoyer |
DOROTA BRZOSKWINIA
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| 3 +3 | défense de causes/de la cause |
Ana Vozone
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| 3 +1 | Mobilisation |
Mohammed EL HALLOUBI
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Dec 8, 2016 19:14: FX Fraipont (X) Created KOG entry
Non-PRO (2): GILLES MEUNIER, Premium✍️
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Proposed translations
campagnes de sensibilisation
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Annie Rigler
5 mins
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merci!
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sporran
1 hr
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merci!
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Chakib Roula
3 hrs
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Premium✍️
: Votre proposition traduit plutôt "awareness" et l'extrait est trop général pour suggérer des 'campagnes' en soi.
4 hrs
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Françoise Vogel
: ou action de sensibilisation, par exemple
8 hrs
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Will do!
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: European/Portugal)
Works in: English to Portuguese, French to Portuguese, German to Portuguese, and 1 more.
défense de causes/de la cause
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Note added at 6 mins (2016-12-03 12:31:22 GMT)
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https://www.google.pt/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=nqdCWNKkLfOJ8QeB55n4Bg#q...
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Francois Boye
1 hr
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Thank you, François!
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Premium✍️
: Oui dans le sens strict du terme.
4 hrs
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Thank you, MultiPro!
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Daryo
5 hrs
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Thank you, Daryo!
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Translator/Terminologist/Teacher
Native in: Arabic (Variants: Standard-Arabian (MSA), Moroccan)
Works in: English to Arabic, Arabic to English, Arabic to French, and 3 more.
Mobilisation
La mobilisation de toutes les bonnes volontés.
Poland
Excellence you can afford
Native in: Polish , Portuguese
Works in: Polish to Portuguese, Polish to French, French to English, and 10 more.
sensibilisation/plaidoyer
(http://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/plaidoyer/6131...
Barack Obama, le 5 janvier 2016, en larmes lors d\'un plaidoyer pour la régulation des armes à feu aux États-Unis
Augmenter la sensibilisation au problème des armes à feu : données et analyses des tendances
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GILLES MEUNIER
: plaidoyer va bien ici
27 mins
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merci!
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Chakib Roula
2 hrs
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merci!
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Hedwig Spitzer (X)
: plaidoyer
2 hrs
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merci!
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ArianeMarchand
: Plaidoyer, oui. C'est souvent utilisé pour parler de certaines formes de lobbyisme.
3 hrs
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Premium✍️
: plaidoyer
4 hrs
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Discussion
Normally, 'advocacy' means standing up in support of some group of people (usually); whereas 'awareness raising' usually means drawing certain people's (or the public at large's) attention to an issue. So as such, the latter is of course often just one component of the former.
The problem here is that, from the context given to us, it is hard to see who (or what) is being 'advocated'. Could it be 'advocacy' for the victims of violence? Asker seems for some reason to think not — perhaps because of wider context not available to us? Could it be 'advocacy' in the sense of 'advocating' tougher gun control, for example? But the title of this 'Office' seems to be wider than just the gun control issue...
I confess to being somewhat stumped as to exactry what was going through the writer's mind when they chose this word!
http://www.actioncontrelafaim.org/en/content/advocacy-and-aw...
http://www.who.int/globalchange/health_policy/who_workplan/a...
http://www.linguee.com/english-french/search?query=advocacy ...