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IFAD S L Workshop. Overview of this presentation. What do we mean by policy? How do we analyse it? …and how can we try to address it? It’s an introduction, not the final word. Slide 1. Policy analysis. IFAD S L Workshop. What do we mean by policy?.

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  1. IFAD SL Workshop Overview of this presentation • What do we mean by policy? • How do we analyse it? • …and how can we try to address it? • It’s an introduction, not the final word Slide 1 Policy analysis

  2. IFAD SL Workshop What do we mean by policy? • A formulated set of choices about objectives: • Which ones? • How to achieve them? • Which are most important? • How can we avoid conflicts between objectives? (Campbell, 1996) • What organisations say they will do…but we are more interested with what they actually do…(Pasteur, 2001) • It’s rather like an elephant. You know when you see it but you cannot easily define it. (Cunningham, 1963) Slide 2 Policy analysis

  3. IFAD SL Workshop Who are the stakeholders in policy? • primary, secondary, institutional • direct, indirect • subjects, objects • beneficiaries, victims, instigators • how can they be identified? • who has identified them? Slide 3 Policy analysis

  4. IFAD SL Workshop Policy stakeholder analysis Analysing the roles of stakeholders - The Four “Rs” Slide 4 Policy analysis

  5. IFAD SL Workshop Policy process and actors Social Capital How people influence the policy process Livelihood options Policy context Livelihood strategies Policy statement Vulnerability context Policy measures How policy influences people’s livelihoods What are the components of policy analysis? The interface between policy and people institutions, organisations, people, rules, regulations People-centred analysis Policy-centred analysis Slide 5 (adapted from Pasteur: IDS – 2001) Policy analysis

  6. IFAD SL Workshop Impacts of policies • What results of policy do people “see”? • Rules and regulations • Public/private agencies • People and personalities • Projects and programmes • Lack of policy • How do policies affect their livelihoods? • Assets and people’s access to them • Range & viability of strategies open to people • Vulnerability • Outcomes Slide 6 Policy analysis

  7. IFAD SL Workshop Process issues • Where are there conflicts in policy? • Where? – sectors, regions, levels, interest groups • How to harmonise those conflicts? • Who is in control? • Timing • Language • Ownership • Representation • Accountability • How ? • Who measures it ? Slide 7 Policy analysis

  8. IFAD SL Workshop What capacity have we got to act? • Debt finance • Technical assistance grants • Influencers – CPMs, country coordinators, project managers, consultants Slide 8 Policy analysis

  9. IFAD SL Workshop Opportunities for policy change • Where are there opportunities for change in policy and policy processes? • Political change • Structural change • Individuals who will support change • Dealing with shocks, trends and changes • Leverage points • Comparative advantage of IFAD as a “change agent” Slide 9 Policy analysis

  10. IFAD SL Workshop Characteristic What does that mean? Incremental and complex Shaped by “policy narratives” Pluralist Informed by actor networks Political Influenced by practice Characteristics of Policy-Making Policy is often based on experimentation, chance events, learning from mistakes, and a range of other influences. Different stories evolve to describe events. Some gain more authority and have more influence on policy decisions than others. Many actors and interest groups can influence the policy process. There may be a range of mechanisms by which these different voices are heard. Certain individuals or institutions spread and maintain narratives through chains of persuasion and influence and inform policy. Power relations between citizens/experts/political authorities mean that policy making is not neutral. Personal politics and party politics influence policy decisions Projects, and the practices of front line staff can have a strong influence on policy (Keeley and Scoones, 1999). Slide 10 Policy analysis

  11. IFAD SL Workshop How do we enable policy change? • What are we trying to achieve? – set objectives • What is it that needs to change? – policy, processes, people • What are the wider implications(conflicts, contradictions, risks) of those changes? • What resources do we need to achieve it? • How and when will we know whether it’s being achieved? – indicators of impact Slide 11 Policy analysis

  12. IFAD SL Workshop Informing and influencing people • Who needs to be changed? – policy stakeholders • At what stage do they operate? • What are their roles in the policy process? – rights, responsibilities and relationships • How do they need to change? – knowledge, attitudes, skills, behaviour • What forces or incentives are likely to influence them ? • What opportunities or constraints affect this change? Slide 12 Policy analysis

  13. IFAD SL Workshop The political context Slide 13 Policy analysis

  14. IFAD SL Workshop Warning: a thick jungle! • the split between policy making and policy implementation • management of change • interest groups– who shouts loudest! • ownership of the policy process • the urge to simplify • the narrowing of policy alternatives Slide 14 Policy analysis

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