Mapping Political Contexts

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• Mapping Political Contexts

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Mapping the Policy Context

• RAPID Framework
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Force field analysis
• Policy Process Mapping
• Influence mapping
• Outcome Mapping

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The Policy Cycle
(Young and Quinn, 2002)
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Stakeholder Analysis

• Why
• To understand who gains or lose from a policy or
  project.
• To help Build Consensus.
• Steps
• Identify Stakeholders
• Analysis Workshop
• Develop Strategies

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Forcefield Analysis

• Steps
• Identify a specific Change
• Identify forces for and againsty change
• Prioritise the forces
• Develop Strategies to overcome opposing and
  reinforce supporting forces

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Policy Process Workshops

• Looking at internal policy processes what works
  in DFID.
• Small, informal workshop with 7 staff.
• Participatory pair-wise ranking of factors
  influencing the success of 8 policy processes.
• Worked quite well.
• In DFID - agendas and processes rather than
  documents are key

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Policy Process Mapping

• General Context issues domestic and
  international.
• Specific Policy Issues (i.e. the policy cycle)
• Who are the Stakeholders? (Stakeholder analysis)
• Arena government, parliament, civil society,
  judiciary, private sector.
• Level local, national, international
• What is their Interest and Influence?
• Process matrix political matrix
• Political and administrative feasibility
  assessment
• Sources M. Grindle / J. Court

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Policy Process Mapping
National Local ( International)
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Policy Process Mapping for SMEs

• Participants work on a set of actors related to
  policy processes
• Steps
• Identify key actors that influence SME policy
• Create Matrix Organizations and Key Steps of the
  Policy Process
• Describe Organizations formal position in the
  policy process
• Describe Organizations informal influence on the
  policy process
• Give a number rating (1low 5high) for the
  influence each organization has on different
  parts of the policy process.

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Policy Process Mapping
Group 1 Government Group 2 Political Society
and Bureaucracy Group 3 Civil Society, Private
Sector and International
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• Group Work 1
• Mapping the political process
• Within your area(s) identify the key actors
  that influence SME policy formulation and/or
  implementation
• Outline their formal and informal roles in
  formulation and/or implementation and write a
  description on an index card
• Also identify, and write on the car where SME
  research is undertaken
• Give a number rating (1low 5high) for the
  influence each organization has on different
  parts of the policy process.