A COMMON DEVELOPMENT
FRAMEWORK:THE POLICY PROCESS
Policy effectiveness is enhanced to the extent that there is a concerted and coordinated sequence of stages that start with an assessment of the policy opportunities—this is often thought of as diagnosis, or as problem definition. Another way to consider this task is that it concerns the quest for policy reform opportunities. The second stage is concerned with design of a policy solution—entailing how to change the"rules" and their associated implementing mechanisms by: