Policy-Implementation Frame:A Revisit

In Public Policy literature, implementation is discussed as flowing from Policy. In this paper, it is proposed that there is an emerging trend of evidences indicating an inverse relationship— Implementation leading to Policymaking, and Implementation manifesting as Policymaking. Implementation to policymaking happens when a local intervention grows from micro implementation to macro policymaking. The intervention starts with the Ideation of a new initiative, and its transition through the processes of snowballing and crystallization. Implementation as policymaking happens when an intended policy manifests as Emergent Policy (Pe) through the adaptation-mutation process, which can be characterized as Emergent Policy-Adaptation-Mutation (PeAM) Cycle. These conclusions are based on the findings in the literature and on learnings from the experience of projects such as Grameen Bank, Joint Forest Management, Rogi Kalyan Samiti and CNG. This paper seeks to provide a different perspective to direct the attention of policymakers to these possibilities.