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.

本数据集旨在对政策变革的驱动因素及其对津巴布韦社会保障政策变革的影响进行定性研究。研究采纳了政策变革的万花筒模型方法论，以探究政府如何识别社会保障政策、选择政策工具以及何种因素影响了政策的选择。研究目标包括：1）探究政策变革的驱动因素；2）确立政策参与者知识水平、态度和认知如何影响政策过程；3）确立政策制定者对威胁的认知以及受益者应对评估如何影响政策工具的选择。