{"id":1644,"date":"2014-05-12T16:08:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T20:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/?page_id=1644"},"modified":"2025-05-05T16:08:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:08:52","slug":"policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The RAFT (Respect, Accountability, Fairness, and Transparency) applies not just to individual behavior. It applies to organizational behavior as well. Policies blindly followed, rules that appear capricious or mean, or the simple lack of time and attention afforded to people can all wreck the RAFT for organizations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Policy<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Policy is the organizational documentation that influences, directs, and constrains conduct.<\/p>\n<p>An over-emphasis at the policy-level on the\u00a0<i>quantity<\/i>,\u00a0<i>quality<\/i>\u00a0or\u00a0<i>timing<\/i>\u00a0of resource deliveries can obscure, distort, and undervalue an intervention\u2019s actual impacts, limiting the ability of field-based staff to make better decisions and arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>Over-specification of the\u00a0<i>identities<\/i>\u00a0of recipients through policies or operational arrangements limit the ability of field staff to carry out interventions that do not reinforce inter-group divisions.<\/p>\n<p>An over-simplification of conflict in\u00a0<i>funding and fund-raising\u00a0<\/i>can cheapen suffering and criminality. Maintaining clarity about authentic innocent suffering and genuine war crimes and interpreting these to the broader world is a responsibility of donors and agencies that intervene in conflict areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"box\">Previous Page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/three-spheres-of-behavior-conduct\/\" title=\"Conduct\">Conduct<\/a><br \/>\nNext Page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/three-spheres-of-behavior-publicity\/\" title=\"Publicity\">Publicity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RAFT (Respect, Accountability, Fairness, and Transparency) applies not just to individual behavior. It applies to organizational behavior as well. Policies blindly followed, rules that appear capricious or mean, or the simple lack of time and attention afforded to people can all wreck the RAFT for organizations. Policy Policy is the organizational documentation that influences, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":10833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1644","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1644\/revisions\/2248"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}