| Sumario: | Policymaking in India is mostly top‐down and lacks an inclusive approach, often leading to failure. The country's agricultural sector policy is no exception. In this paper, we studied the Odisha Millets Mission (OMM), which is credited for its multi‐stakeholder involvement (government, academia, and civil society) and end‐to‐end design (from production to consumption of millets). We discussed the existing theories, approaches, and frameworks, which we found to be limited in providing desirable elements of effective public policy justifying the need for a new framework. Toward this, we have proposed the GAME (policy Goals, policy Actors, policy Measures, and policy Ends) framework and identified such desirable elements by taking evidence from the OMM. We first looked into the potential of millet as a sustainable food system and its suitability for the state of Odisha, which has drifted away from millet because of the changing food and policy preferences. We employed exploratory qualitative methods: in‐depth interviews with key informants, non‐participant observations, and focused group discussions with millet farmers, and analyzed secondary information to understand lived experiences of the stakeholders in rolling out the OMM. Through an inductive approach and thematic analysis, we identified 24 good elements of effective public policy that collectively contributed to the OMM's success and organized these elements under the proposed GAME framework. The study contributes to emerging trends of multistakeholder policy design by offering a comprehensive framework with a reasonable number of desirable elements. This can significantly aid in analyzing public policy in different domains to assess its effectiveness.
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