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Outcomes-focussed Policymaking in Scotland

“This toolkit is designed to support Scottish policy making to be more joined up and coherent, across policy areas both within Scotland and internationally. The problems Scottish policy making aims to tackle are increasingly complex and exist across geographic and thematic boundaries. Our policy response needs to recognise and reflect this.

 

This tool is aimed at all those developing and implementing policy in the Scottish Government and its associated public bodies. It is designed to support holistic policy making that reflects the complex reality of our interconnected world. It will help you think about developing policy that takes into account links and interdependencies to other policy areas, locally and globally. It will help you and your team to think through a policy area and how it is informed by, and contributes to, Scotland’s National Performance Framework (NPF) and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)…

 

This tool can be used at any stage of policy making but is particularly effective in the early stages of policy development: reviewing existing policy and defining the problem as well as early policy formulation and outcomes setting.” (p.2)