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There Are Seven Gaps in the Development and Management of Israeli Socioeconomic Strategy

• Political leadership is not involved.
• The government takes a reactive posture and does not initiate strategic approaches to policy challenges.
• Ministries are not coordinating their policymaking.
• Stakeholders and the public are not engaged enough.
• Research and information are not being used adequately.
• Transitioning strategy to policies and their implementation is difficult.
• Measurement and evaluation of policy interventions are not sufficient.

Internationally, Various Governments Have Responded to Such Gaps Differently

• Establishing a strategy unit that receives the prime minister's attention and has strong professional capabilities and gathering input from independent, nongovernmental institutions will help the strategic perspective and longer-term socioeconomic strategy. The strategy unit would develop a strategy with specific, attainable targets for the new government's term in office. Especially when those terms are short, the unit should continuously take a strategic perspective and develop a longer-term strategy, strategic alternatives, and strategic early warning.
• Legal requirements and engaging the head of government can create and maintain demand for a strategic approach.
• Each ministry should enhance its ability to take a strategic perspective. The prime minister's office should strengthen its ability to coordinate ministries and implement interministerial committees of directors-general and deputy directors-general.
• Analytic tools and research should inform strategies and strategic perspectives.
• Strategy documents should be published and as accessible as possible.
• Connections to the budget will aid implementation.

Israel faces economic and social challenges. The government has not routinely developed and successfully implemented strategic responses to socioeconomic problems that demand longer-term, coordinated policy action. Effective means to respond to such longer-term challenges may require a more systematic government approach to policymaking. Researchers developed detailed recommendations related to institutions, processes, supporting information, outputs, and implementation for the Israeli government to apply a strategic perspective toward socioeconomic issues and develop a formal socioeconomic strategy for Israel should the government desire to do so. They mapped the institutions and processes in the formation of socioeconomic strategy in the state of Israel as they existed at the time of the project in 2011; described the information used to support strategy formation; analyzed the evaluation and monitoring processes in current strategy formation; identified the gaps in current strategy formation institutions, processes, information, and evaluation and monitoring; conducted international case studies of strategy formation; and compared Israeli practices with international practices.

• Chapter One

  Introduction

• Chapter Two

  Strategy and the Strategic Perspective

• Chapter Three

  The Strategic Perspective and Israel's Socioeconomic Challenges

• Chapter Four

  International Comparisons of Socioeconomic Strategy Development and Implementation

• Chapter Five

  Perceived Gaps in Israel

• Chapter Six

  Recommendations for Anticipating and Responding to Socioeconomic Challenges