Policy & Legislative Drafting

Policy and Legislative Drafting Programme

The Policy and Legislative Drafting programme is responsible for the actual formulation and drafting of bills. Using information and data from the research and analysis programme, the drafting programme will process and produce bills for tabling and further discussion.

Drafting is carried out in legislation, amendments to legislation, gazette notices, rules, by-laws and memoranda and presenting them to the appropriate bodies. Moreover, the programme develops partnerships with other organisations involved in policy formulation and the legislative process, and:

• Identifies specific peer organisations and stakeholders on any given issues
• Organises fora to discuss policy and legislative issues
• Collaborates in areas of common interest with the stakeholders
• Reviews current and proposed legislation

The Policy Cycle

The Policy Cycle has the following components:

Agenda Setting – Generating public interest in a problem

Problem Recognition – Includes selecting a problem that will be treated in the political system

Documentation – Includes scientific analysis of the problem

Policy Design – Development of a political solution

Consultation – Testing the Acceptance of the policy by different interest groups

Decision Making – Choosing a solution

Implementation – Provision of resources

Output – That which the project actually produces

Impact – Specific impact of the project on the community

Outcome – Degree to which the impact on the community solves the problem

Evaluation – Evaluation of a policy during the different stages of the policy cycle

Improvement – Improving a policy that has been evaluated

Policy Termination – Ending a policy that does not work or is unnecessary