Exploring Practices in Policy Implementation

New development crises and actors present both challenges and opportunities to developing countries today. This new situation at local, national as well as international levels has changed the context of national policy making processes. Development is less a consequence of nationally adopted policies and more the outcome of political processes where different actors engage and pursue their own agendas.

As a result the policy responses to crises today are found in the daily practices of a diverse grouping of actors. This research unit strives to understand how politics influences the practices where state and non-state actors interact, create alliances, negotiate and contest each other in the processes of policy implementation.

Lars Engberg-Pedersen, head of the research unit