The Office of Inspector General, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, was established by Congress in 1976 to identify and eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse in Department of Health and Human Services programs and to promote efficiency and economy in departmental operations.
This article is about promotion of a cause or point of view. For legal representation, see Advocate. Advocacy is an activity by an individual or group which aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions.
1 Self-advocacy: taking action to represent and advance your own interests; 2  Peer advocacy: taking action to represent the rights and interests of someone other than yourself; 3  Systems advocacy: taking action to influence social, political, and economic systems to bring about change for groups of people; and.his Kit reviews Informal and Formal Advocacy Strategies. For the purposes of this Tool kit, Informal Advocacy Strategies are strategies that do not involve bringing in an outside decision maker. Formal Advocacy Strategies, on the other hand, typically involve an outside decision-maker.