Category: Public policy

Public policy over all is the course intend to make students or
scholars understand how policies are made in Namibia and how are they
implemented. It go in-depth to have the understanding of public policy making
process in Namibia, the characteristics of public policy,  the challenges of public policy as well
as  why public policy is important. To
have a deep understanding of public policy we learnt about the source, types
and categories of public policy. In Namibia there are a lot of factors that can
influence public policy, political factor be one of them, this year 2024 we
will be having our national election around November; whereby we will elect our
country president for the next 5 years.
As a student we learnt about the participants in the policy making
process, who are the officials policy makers; and how are the political
parties, medias , businesses and individual citizens influence in policy making
process. Policy analysis is an important aspect of public policy in a way that
it define the activities of creating knowledge of the policy making process.
Even though there are types of analysis there are also limitation to policy
analysis.
When it comes to policy making process, there are problem
identification stage which help to define the problems, the agenda setting
process and the policy formulation. These processes help to divide the policy
making process into small different parts to make students understand the
policy making process easily.