Knowledge attitudes and perceptions of the drivers of policy makers and social protection in Zimbabwe

This is dataset for a qualitative study that was collected to investigate the drivers of policy change and their implication for social protection policy changes in Zimbabwe.The kaleidoscope model for policy change methodology was adopted to explore how the government identified social protection policies and selected policy instruments and what influenced the policy choice. Several objectives were taken into task namely : 1) investigating the drivers of policy change,2) establishing how policy actors’ levels of knowledge, attitudes and perceptions affected the policy process over a period of time and 3) establishing how policymakers' perceptions of threats and coping appraisals of beneficiaries influenced policy instruments selection.