"The ICG aims to exert influence on agenda setting, policy making and policy
implementation in post-/conflict areas. It does so not only by providing policy
makers with information in the form of detailed analyses and early warning
alerts and by publishing widely through traditional and electronic media. Importantly
the organisation also lobbies more directly for certain agendas and policies.
According to its website, it ‘conducts some 5000 advocacy meetings with
policymakers and other decision-makers’ per year.8 In the eyes of peers and
experts the ICG’s advocacy efforts seem to pay off: the think-tank report ranks
the ICG eighth for best advocacy campaign.9 The ICG attributes its influence on
policy makers to ‘key roles being played by senior staff highly experienced in
government and by an active Board of Trustees’,
10 whose composition of former
high-level statespersons and other influential personalities resembles a ‘who’s
who of influential power brokers’ in international politics, as a 2005 Time Asia
article described it."
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264088578_Studying_the_International_Crisis_Group