ABSTRACT
This conclusion provides some closing thoughts on key ideas discussed in this book. The book highlights the many challenges that policymakers face—anticipating and defining problems; discovering, assessing, and selecting solutions; implementing their chosen solution, and evaluating performance— It also offers suggestions on how the challenges may be overcome. The Policymakers and scholars have recognized the importance of policy capacity for some decades now. The book outlines the framework for policy capacity-comprising political, operational, and analytical skills at individual, organizational, and systemic levels-presented here is intended to allow policy organizations to assess their readiness for managing the policy process. It then sets out several strategies that can be pursued for addressing the challenges of integrated and effective policy-making. It also offers practical tools to policymakers for assessing their own policy capacity and devising ways to build it. Finally, political skills and resources are vital because policies need to attract both legitimacy and resources from their authorizing institutions and constituencies to be effective.
