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What are five key ingredients of a good problem definition for policy analysis?

What are five key ingredients of a good problem definition for policy analysis?. Ties to performance management:. Problem definition must start with the organization or program mission and objectives Indicators from past can be used as part of problem definition

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What are five key ingredients of a good problem definition for policy analysis?

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  1. What are five key ingredients of a good problem definition for policy analysis?

  2. Ties to performance management: • Problem definition must start with the organization or program mission and objectives • Indicators from past can be used as part of problem definition • Can compare indicators to benchmarks, over time, by client groups, as part of problem definition • Logic model or theory of changecan provide input for problem definition within analysis

  3. Kingdon on how issues are defined as problems: • Indicators, Events, and Feedback • What makes this an actionable situation now? • Values: • Are outcomes consistent with our values? • Comparisons: • How do “we” compare to similar jurisdictions or sets of clients? • Categories: • What type of issue is it?

  4. Problems with problems: • Problems are: interdependent, socially constructed, and dynamic • You have to worry about boundaries of definition • Multiple stakeholders will differ in their perspective on the problem definition • You have to choose which models the best define problem • Example: • Rand How Can Faith-Based Organizations Help Address the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Central America? • Hayes and Rogers student memo

  5. Problem definition: • Is specific to the client’s context and tools • Is a narrative of the issue • Identifies boundaries of project to make tractable • Provides a Model for understanding causal links and assessing gains in issue • Provides evidenceof the causes, severity, scope, and changes over time • Can develop through participatory process to create buy in for action

  6. Where do we get information for the Problem definition?: • Start with the client and any administrative records, testimony, reports on issue • Outcome measures • Changes over time • History of efforts • Newspapers, web pages, blogs • Advocy orgs. and think tanks: “Gray literature” • Models • Outcomes in other places • Potential alternatives • Academic literature • Causal theories and Models • Evidence of scale, scope, change over time • Evidence of causation

  7. What are the key elements of the problem definition in the Acheen Street case?

  8. Pictures from George Town 2011 Penang Heritage Trust: http://www.pht.org.my/council Acheen Street Mosque: http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/malaysia/georgetown/acheen.php

  9. You must define a problem that you can analyze and client can act on, and acknowledge other stakeholders’ view of the problem.

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