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- 1. DOING POLICY ANALYSIS POLITICAL APPROACH TO POLICY ANALYSIS Analysis of policy: Retrospective and descriptive Looks back at why and how a policy made its way onto the agenda, its content and whether or not and why it has achieved its goals Analysis for policy: prospective Carried out to inform the formulation of a policy or anticipate how a policy might fair if introduced (how other actors might respond to the proposed change)
- 2. HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY INFLUENCE POLICY OUTCOMES/ANALYSIS FOR POLICY 1. Engage in framing problems 2. understand how agendas are set 3. learn to recognize political opportunities 4. Understand how to manipulate political processes and encourage wider acceptance of your definition and proposed solution 5. understand the position, interests and power of other interested parties (including the media) based on the distribution of costs and benefits of the proposed policy 6. adapt your solutions to make them more politically feasible
- 3. STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS Stakeholders: those having an interest in an issue or policy those who might be affected by a policy Those who may play a role in relation to making or implementing the policy What to analyze? 1) Identifying the policy actors 2) Assessing their political resources 3) understanding their position and interests with respect to the issues
- 4. 1. Producer groups 2 . Consumer group 3. Economic groups 4. Ideological groups 5. Health Develop groups 6. Government: MOH, MOF, MOP, Prov and dist gov, MOE, MOA, MO Commerce Stakeholder s “Policy actors” Political resources “roles in the pol structure & relative power” Positions & interests on current policy “commitments” Importance of issue STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS WHO ARE THE STAKEHOLDERS?
- 5. POLITICAL RESOURCES Tangible intangible Money Information Organization access to leaders People Access to media Votes Expertise Equipment Legitimacy Offices Skills
- 6. Strategies to affect the stakeholders Supportive actors -Funds, personnel and facilities -- information to increase expertise -- access to decision makers and the media --public relations which highlights supportive actors’ expertise, legitimacy, victim status or heroic nature
- 7. Limit the resources of the opponents Challenge their legitimacy, expertise or motives Characterizing them as self-interested and self-serving Refusing to cooperate or share information with them Reduce their access to decision makers Mobilizing additional supporters Engaging national celebrities (branding the public health intervention)
- 8. DATA FOR POLICY ANALYSIS: EVIDENCE FOR POLICY ANALYSIS Accuracy; comprehensiveness; and relevance of the collected inf • Literature search (pubmed/MEDLINE and doc review • Key informant Interviews with policy makers and senior managers • Statistical data sources to understand the magnitude of the problem • Contextual variables: situational, structural. Cultural, exogenous/professionals • Actors: power, interest, position and commitment • Content: policy aims • Process • Gathering information from people (surveys, interviews)