• Who makes OVC public policy?

• How should OVC public policies be made?

  • Step 1: Situational Analysis
  • Step 2: Identifying possible options
  • Step 3: Setting Your OVC Policy Framework
  • Step 4: Narrowing Down your Policy Options
  • Step 5: Final Check
  • Step 6: Planning Implementation

Step 5: Final Check

Before you finalize your National OVC Policy, make three final checks:

• Make sure that the policies you have chosen are consistent with the Policy Framework you defined in Step 2 above. Are the interventions you have chosen consistent with the goal, objectives, principles and values that you established?

• Make sure that there is an internal logic within your proposed strategy. Are the policies you are recommending appropriate for the OVC groups you have chosen to prioritize and within the capacity of the government to finance and implement?

• Finally, make sure that you can answer “yes” to the following checklist for good policy initiatives.

• Feasibility: Is it affordable? Will it make a difference?

• Communicability: Can it be explained to the public? To parliamentarians?

• Supportability: Will it have a champion?