Abstract
Policies are management instruments that organizations employ to ensure their stakeholders and others understand their guiding principles. This paper examined the importance and impacts of policy coherence, mandate overlaps and policy management towards achieving policy effectiveness. The authors examined some extant development policies in Nigeria for policy coherence and assessed some agencies that implement these policies for mandate overlaps and mandate clarity/exclusiveness. To reduce policy incoherence and mandate overlaps, the paper recommended that policy makers should consult widely to understand all the issues involved and use multi-sector teams to ensure the development of effective policies that are robust in nature. Finally, it canvassed that policies be reviewed or evaluated from time to time to strengthen identified areas of weaknesses and enhance their effectiveness.
Highlights
States and political or administrative units often promulgate guidelines and official guidance as to how matters under their political and administrative purviews are to be managed
This paper will examine some extant policies in Nigeria for policy coherence, assess the mandates of a few of the agencies who are called upon to implement these policies for mandate overlaps and mandate clarity/exclusiveness
Managing public sector can be measured in the following ways: 1. Productivity or performance management: Bussim (2012) opined that performance or productivity management can be defined as a continuous process of improving individuals, team and organisational performance - it has to do with the fundamentals of any organization, since there are policies and guidelines meant to be followed in order to achieve its goals
Summary
States and political or administrative units often promulgate guidelines and official guidance as to how matters under their political and administrative purviews are to be managed. In a country or a state or and administrative unit, one may come across things like a policy on agriculture, another on education and yet another on rural development The purpose of such policies is to guide actions and to provide framework to measure and assess the performance of civil servants who are usually called upon to implement such policies. When public policies and government programmes have gone through the process of development and ratification by the competent authorities in a country, their day to day implementation and monitoring are usually entrusted to ministries and government agencies, each established either through an act of parliament or by an edict depending on the style of democracy that is operative in the country This is to say that each ministry and agency of government has specific mandate which very clearly defines and delineates its areas off authority and competence. The paper will propose some strategies to improve on policy effectiveness
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