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| Title: | Training in Policy Analysis Methods: The Ethiopian Experience |
| Author: | Assefa, Alemayehu |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Periodical: | African Administrative Studies |
| Issue: | 49 |
| Pages: | 35-43 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
| Subjects: | government policy Education and Oral Traditions Politics and Government |
| Abstract: | The policymaking history of Ethiopia shows that public policies were predominantly made by individual rulers, both under Emperor Haile Selassie and the military regime of the Dergue. On the whole senior civil servants were charged with policy implementation rather than analysis or formulating recommendations. Under the recently established federal system, public policymaking has started to take a more participative form. However, the new policymaking system has inherited structural and cultural constraints to effective policy formulation and analysis. There are no policy analysis units in higher government structures and ministries and regional governments. There is confusion over the respective roles of politicians and civil servants. Decisionmakers in Ethiopia have not systematically assessed their information needs and do not place great value on information. Information mamagement is not handled satisfactorily and there is a lack of institutional memory. While public policy formulation and analysis is taught to a limited extent at Addis Ababa University and the Ethiopian Management Institute, the impact of training in influencing quality policies remains to be assessed. Recommendations for increasing the capacity of Ethiopian officials and civil servants in policy analysis conclude the article. The author is head of the Public and Development Administration Department of the Ethiopian Management Institute. Bibliogr. |