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The Role of Small NGOs in Public Policymaking Process - A Case Study for Policymaking Process in the National Mental Healthcare Systems for North Korean Defectors -

Kim, Chang-O 1 Young Hwan Lee 2

1강북구보건소
2성공회대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study is conducted to identify the role of small non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the policy stream of national mental healthcare systems for North Korean (NK) defectors. To reach this goal, a case regarding national mental healthcare policy for NK defectors set first on February 2006 was analyzed by Kingdon’s policy framework and the activities of small NGOs who played important roles at that time were specially described in detail. As a result, the mental healthcare policymaking for NK defectors could be accounted for joining three separate streams which worked as a part of the agenda-setting and alternative-specification process: problems, policies, and politics. In this policymaking process, small NGOs which were founded from voluntary activities played an active role in reframing problems, helping set the agenda by strategic forum, joining policy community by coalition, and specifying innovative alternatives, so we concluded that they acted as a policy entrepreneur.

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