Title: The whole-of-government approach to public policy integration from the Ethiopian experience: policy analysis with a comparative focus on selected public policies

Authors: Tewelde Gebresslase Haile; S.P. Singh

Addresses: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee-247667, India ' Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee-247667, India

Abstract: This paper analyses the extent of public policy integration with a comparative focus on purposefully selected social protection, agriculture, education and health policies of Ethiopia. To determine the extent of institutional integrations, the medium-term programs are part of this policy analysis. It uses the whole-of-government approach (WGA) to analyse the joint impact of these public policies on promoting social protection interventions to address poverty, social vulnerability and inequality. The study observes clear policy gaps in identifying joint and achievable social protection-oriented goals in both national and sector-based development programs. Public policies are supposed to connect means and ends in an integrated manner. But the means public sectors and their development partners required to achieve the stated ends were not well-identified under these policies. These old public policies are expected to disseminate the latest evidence and timely reform to meet the public's ever-growing demand on the cross-cutting issues of livelihood security, healthcare, education, and social protection interventions.

Keywords: public policy; social protection; agriculture; health; education; whole-of-government approach; WGA.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPSPM.2024.138764

International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management, 2024 Vol.13 No.4, pp.471 - 490

Received: 10 Jan 2020
Accepted: 11 Oct 2020
Published online: 31 May 2024 *

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