Discuss the importance of policy formulation.

Policy Formulation is most valued for its end product, namely, which is Public Polices. With the
meticulous process that is Policy Formulation, we are given policies which are supposedly to benefit the Filipino
people. Public Policies are basically the guidelines by which the government runs a country and articulates its
particular stand on the issues of society and government. These policies enable the public to critique the
government regarding its performance and shortcomings. When a policy is produced, the public is informed what
the government intends to do about issues affecting the citizens. The process of Policy Formulation precedes this,
logically so, before any policy is finalized it is first doused in rhetoric and scrutiny by the policy makers that aim
to foresee any errors that the policy may contain. The Policy Formulation process is the supposed safeguard
against hasty and erroneous policies

Distinguish the political stream from the policy stream in policy formulation.
In Policy formulation, there two approaches to problem delimination. These are namely, political stream
and policy stream.
Policy stream is understood to be a practical approach to problem delimination, it seeks to provide an
accurate and precise formulation of public problems so that they can be effectively and efficiently solved. It does
not totally discredit subjective approaches, but maintain that exact problem formulation should only be for the
purpose of producing a solution for public issues and not as a way to understand why public issues are
indentified and defined as the way they are. Now, when we talk about political stream, its main focus is more
scientific than practical, it aims to describe andexpalin different definitions or frames of public issues. It intends
to find out how concrete public issues are identified, conceptualized and defined by different actors, why certain
societal conditions become defined as public problems (and others do not) and what are the reasons and
consequences of different definitions or frames of public issues.


Give your own examples.
Under the Policy Stream Approach, a notable example would be the Republic Act No. 10354 or the
"Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012
For the Political Stream Approach, the prime example would be the Constitutional Principle that the state
shall prohibit the existence of political dynasties, as stated in Art. II, Section 26 of the Philippine Constitution.