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Policy Transfer Among Regional-Level Organizations: Insights from Source Water Protection in Ontario.
R C de Loë1,2, D Murray3, S Michaels4
1School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. rdeloe@uwaterloo.ca.
Environmental Management
|April 21, 2016
Summary
Regional organizations in Ontario used policy transfer to develop drinking water protection policies. Online tools aided this process, but planners preferred direct peer-to-peer communication over internet-based mechanisms.
Area of Science:
- Environmental Policy
- Public Administration
- Water Resource Management
Background:
- Local and regional organizations frequently need to develop policies rapidly and concurrently due to evolving mandates or threats.
- Nineteen regional organizations in Ontario were tasked with developing source water protection policies under strict timelines and requirements.
- These organizations employed an explicit policy transfer approach, utilizing knowledge from other contexts to inform their policy development.
Purpose of the Study:
- To assess the effectiveness of three online mechanisms designed to facilitate policy transfer for source water protection in Ontario.
- To understand how policy planners utilized these tools and their overall experience with online policy transfer.
Main Methods:
- A survey was administered to policy planners from the 19 regional organizations who had used the online policy transfer tools.
- An analysis of three policies developed and transferred among the regional organizations was conducted to confirm policy transfer.
- Qualitative insights were gathered from survey responses regarding the use and preference of policy transfer mechanisms.
Main Results:
- Policy planners confirmed using policy transfer to develop regional source protection policies, a finding supported by textual analysis of the policies.
- The online policy transfer tools were found to facilitate systematic policy transfer among the organizations.
- Despite the utility of online tools, policy planners expressed a preference for informal, direct exchanges with peers over internet-based mechanisms.
Conclusions:
- Online policy transfer mechanisms can effectively support systematic policy development in regional contexts.
- However, traditional, informal communication channels remain highly valued by policy practitioners for knowledge exchange.
- Future development of policy transfer tools should consider integrating or complementing informal communication preferences.
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