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Enhancing Capacity for Strategic Management of Policy Implementation in Developing Countries

This paper examines the experience of the Implementing Policy Change Project (IPC), a capacity-building effort, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), that has assisted developing country managers to use the concepts and tools of strategic management to implement policy reforms more effectively. IPC has worked with governments, the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations in more than two dozen countries worldwide on various aspects of policy management. The paper reviews several of IPC's technical cooperation interventions, draws lessons for successful capacity-building and for the transfer of strategic management approaches and tools to public sector agencies, and highlights critical issues for capacity-building.