Public Policy

 Policy is a plan of action that serves as a basis for taking decisions to achieve a particular purpose. It is principle for conduct as well as a course of action to be adopted by an individual, a group, a public or private organization or a government as a guide and standard to realize a specific purpose within a given environment. Hence, the term ‘policy ‘may apply to governmental, private sector organizations, groups and individual. Policy is principle set of actions and inactions to achieve rational outcome. Public Policy means a course of actions of inaction taken by governmental agencies to resolve a particular issue or set of issues. Public Policies are those principles that guide the decision of government to resolve policy problems and issue. Definitions given by some scholars: Faston: Public policy is authoritative allocation of values for the whole society. Oye: Whatever government chooses to do or not to do. Anderson: A purposive course of action followed by a