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Reforming policy

Reforming policy

Adapting policies
Improving policy
Implementing structural policy change
Realigning policies
Changing policy

Description

Reforming policy involves systematically reviewing, revising, and updating existing laws, regulations, and institutional frameworks to address identified shortcomings or emerging challenges. The essential action is to implement targeted changes that improve effectiveness, equity, and responsiveness, thereby remedying outdated, inefficient, or unjust policies. This strategy aims to resolve specific problems by ensuring that governance structures and rules better serve current societal needs and promote sustainable, inclusive development.

Broader

Developing policy

Narrower

Maintaining national monetary and fiscal discipline

Ensuring national economic policies support sustainable development

Reforming health policy

Reforming foreign aid policy

Reforming domestic trade policy

Integrating national energy efficiency policy

Improving policy coherence for foreign aid

Improving food aid policies and programmes

Humanizing refugee policy

Enhancing favourable trading environment

Developing sustainable policy for public procurement

Developing health policy for climate change

Developing appropriate educational policies

Realigning politics around ecology

Improving access to environmentally sound technology

Calling for drug law reform

Strengthening public finance policies

Strengthening institutional capacity for economic policy-making

Reviewing sustainability of policies of international agencies and finance institutions

Reinforcing strategic planning capacity

Integrating international policy

Improving worker cooperation with multinational enterprises

Improving socio-cultural factors which support population policies

Improving social planning for human settlements

Improving policies to promote investment in urban water management

Improving national waste management and control policies

Improving national policies

Improving money lending policy

Improving long-term environmental policies, technology and risk assessment

Improving governmental resource conservation policies

Improving fiscal policies

Improving economic policy-making

Improving credit policies

Improving coordination of policy on hazardous waste

Improving available knowledge for articulation of appropriate policies

Improving adequacy of development policies

Improving acceptability of conserver society policies

Elaborating national employment policies

Creating educational policy

Admitting policy errors

Adapting environmental policies to changes in production and trade

Facilitates

Reforming institutions

Mitigating social consequences of structural adjustment programmes

Facilitated by

Using policy analysis

Studying public policy

Monitoring development policies

Problem

Social hardships of economic reform

Inappropriate policies

Inadequate social reform

Bureaucratic resistance to self-review

Value

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #16: Peace and Justice Strong Institutions

Sustainable Development Goal #17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal

Metadata

Database

Global strategies

Type

(C) Cross-sectoral strategies

Subject

Development » Reform
Policy-making » Policy

Content quality

Yet to rate

Language

English

1A4N

J0420

DOCID

12004200

D7NID

194453

Editing link

Official link

https://encyclopedia.uia.org/strategy/reforming-policy

Last update

Dec 3, 2024