Priming Public Policy Analysis, Synthesis, Design, Execution & Policy ‘Clinic’ in Ethiopia - RL Vol XII No 378 MMXVIII

Priming Public Policy Analysis,

Synthesis, Design, Execution & Policy ‘Clinic’ in Ethiopia

Office of the Prime Minister, Legal and Policy Directorate General

Public Lecture - RL Vol XII No 378 MMXVIII

Yetnayet Ayele, PhD, AAU

Costantinos Berhutesfa Costantinos, PhD

Professor of Public Policy & Sustainable Institutional Reforms

https://addisababa.academia.edu/CostyCostantinos

Abstract

        This theme of the research looks into factors that can affect policy execution in Ethiopia with emphasis on the role of civic engagement for policy execution. With increased emphasis to the role of good governance for development, the trend is towards participatory policy-making and the public choice. However, civic engagements in the policy process are not common in many developing countries; much has to be done to strengthen it. The study concluded that policy execution problems are common for both the developed and the developing countries, but the problem is severe in developing countries due to several constraints. There is no single factor that influences execution, and there is no single theory that explains execution problems.

          The context with in which policy is formulated and implemented highly matters. Those developing countries who allowed citizens to participate in the policy process are showing encouraging results. The institutions, the participants, the resources available to the participants, the weight of state power in the society, the capacity of the state to do its will all, the content of the policy, and the configuration of issues vary significantly. He stated that in most of the developing countries, regimes legitimacy is questionable. Power is concentrated in government and societies are powerless. The state capacity to make and implement polices is very low, participant in the policy process are fewer than the developed countries, the policy process in not inclusive and some sectors of the society are hardly participate at all; the channels for participation are less well established and less clearly prescribed; information for policy making is much scarcer; foreign models are much more common. This implies that the policy environment in Ethiopia is not conducive for citizens and stakeholders to participate freely in matters affecting them.

        The Policy Clinic can assist the public sector in evaluating its performance and identifying the factors which contribute to its service delivery outcomes as the Ethiopian Government’s major challenge is to become more effective.. The Policy Clinic is uniquely oriented towards providing its users with the ability to draw causal connections between the choice of policy priorities, the resourcing of those policy objectives, the programmes designed to implement them, the services actually delivered and their ultimate impact on communities.

            Key words: public policy, policy analysis, policy formulation, policy execution, citizen participation, policy clinic

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