POLICY ANALYSIS AND ADVISING: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM ETHIOPIA

Mulugeta Abebe Wolde
Prairie View A & M University

ABSTRACT

This study takes stock of critical public policy research and analysis of organizations in Ethiopia from interviews and other sources. This study also sheds light on the significance of the professionalization of policy analysis and its contributions to closing the gap between knowledge and policymaking. Moreover, this study offers insights into improved policymaking and highlights lessons for better institutionalization of policy analysis and research. Finally, this study alludes to the inauspicious environment in which non-government and university-based policy research organizations operate and touches on the negligible impact the latter have on policymaking.

Keywords: Ethiopia, Public policy, organization, professionalization, policymaking.