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Table 5.4 Skeleton Diagnostic Tool:Analysing Influences on Policy Implementation cont.Questions (list is not comprehensive)Effect on ImplementationNegative Positive NeutralPolicy Characteristics cont.Where did the impetus for the policy come from?Who decided to pursue the policy, how, and why?What is the nature of the policy benefi ts, and to whom do they accrue (disaggregated bysex, age and ethnicity)?What is the nature of the costs of the policy reform, and who bears them(disaggregated by sex, age and ethnicity)?What is the degree and complexity of the changes brought about by the new policy?How administratively intense or technically complex is the new policy?— recognising that some confrontation is unavoidableand that it might even prove productive inmoving the empowerment agenda forward. Obviously,what for works for Legal Empowerment ofthe Poor in country ‘X’ may be irrelevant in country‘Y’ with a very different social structure, economicenvironment and universe of stakeholder groups.The procedures in determining a suitable LegalEmpowerment of the Poor strategy might look alikein these two locations, but the substance of theoutcome would be sharply different. And in allcases, the process is messy and imprecise, yieldingonly what would appear to be the best fitting policiesgiven the imperfect information available topolicymakers at the time and the current politicalrealities.impediments to Legal Empowerment of the Poorimplementation. That is the subject of Section 3.Without looking beyond the generic influence onimplementation to any specific cases, we can seethat the legal empowerment movement has takenon a stiff but not infeasible implementation challenge.We have placed much stress on the needfor imaginative and adaptable policymaking, butto help imagination along it is imperative to havea number of rough roadmaps that will help totake policymakers around some of the pitfalls and314