Policy Dialogue: A Guide to Education Project Design
Creators: name: Jacob, W. James
name: Alvarado, Felix
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: education
policy dialogue
decision making
policy mapping

description: This document has been developed as a practice-based primer on providing support to policy dialogue. It acknowledges the different approaches to policy analysis, and seeks to identify some guidelines for effective policy dialogue support based on international best practices and lessons learned from the EQUIP2 project experience. Policy dialogue seeks specific outcomes, but it is a highly context-sensitive practice. Rather than following a static list of steps, effective support for policy dialogue should seek to apply experience-based guidelines to decision-making to promote better solutions in specific situations. Guideline #1: In preparing for policy dialogue, it is important to recognize that specific interests are not the same as social needs. Guideline #2: Keep your eye on the prize: Help stakeholders focus on the outcome. Guideline #3: Policy processes are different from policy outcomes, and both are important. Guideline #4: Acknowledge that dialogue and negotiation are related but distinct. Guideline #5: Your advantage is technical. Guideline #6: Share information. Guideline #7: Build capacity. Guideline #8: Change takes time: be patient... and flexible. Guideline #9: In dialogue, seek the critical mass.
description: This paper was made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under Cooperative Agreement No. GDG-A-00-03-00008-00. The contents are the responsibility of FHI 360 through the Educational Quality Improvement Program 2 (EQUIP2) and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.
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