The phrase "a foundation for policy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the underlying principles or basis that inform or guide policy decisions.
Example: "The research provides a solid foundation for policy development in the area of environmental protection."
Alternatives: "a basis for policy" or "a framework for policy".
By identifying specific targets and measuring how close each country comes to them, the EPI provides a foundation for policy analysis and a context for evaluating performance.
The method of sustainability assessment is applied to the Croatian co-generation sector contributing to the evaluation of different strategies and definition of a foundation for policy related to the sustainable future cogeneration sector development.
Where such attempts have been made, the manner of common land management has figured prominently, with 'tragedy of the commons' concepts used to explain land degradation and to provide a foundation for policy response.
Once again citing religion as a foundation for policy, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman said today that he and Vice President Al Gore would be good stewards of nature, while Gov. George W. Bush would spoil it.
The 90-day review of the trade deficit, described as a comprehensive examination of the products and countries responsible for the gap, looks more like an economics classroom exercise than a foundation for policy.
By using science as a foundation for policy, rather than its keystone, we might reduce the incentives to exploit or fall prey to the "excess of objectivity". Just as importantly, we might find ourselves making better decisions through more productive politics.
Later, integration of the sustainable development principle into European Treaties established a framework for governance and a foundation for tourism policy, and the Lisbon Treaty in 2007 established a European policy that explicitly related to tourism, albeit a complementary competence in character.
However, in this paper we provide a systematic critique of the technology neutrality concept as a foundation for designing policy support schemes in the RES-E technology field.
The study provides new observations for debates to high-tech policy-makers and can benefit scholars and business managers seeking to understand the environment in China, and serve as a foundation for further policy and management research.
But even the best intelligence can turn out to be mistaken, and the likelihood that this was the case in Iraq shows why pre-emptive war, the Bush administration's strategy since 9/11, is so ill conceived as a foundation for security policy.
A major achievement of the emerging environmental movement in the United States, the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) established a foundation for environmental policy in the United States.
