This research was initiated to explore the policy Famework of interventions established tornaddress the problems of street children in Addis Ababa. In line with this, the manner in Ivhichrnthese interventions are established and governed; the challenges o/administering them without arncomprehensive policy; jcrctors that may hinder the jormulation 0/ comprehensive policy and arnproposed policy options were aimed to be explored. To achieve these objectives. different type 0/rnda/({ col/ection methods were used. These include; survey questionnaire, key informant interviewrnand document analysis. The survey questionnaire wasjilled by 181 respondents selected throughrnthe use 0/ convenience sampling technique. Out of which 145 0/ them were street children, 20rnofficials/experts wereji'om NCOs and 16 werefi'om ojjicial;/ experts o/the government bureaus.rnKey informant interviews were conducted with selected individuals Fom the three groups. Therndata collected through the above methods was analyzed and presented descriptively. Thern.findings revealed that: the city administration has been facing a number of challenges inrnadministering the interventions on the street children in the absence of comprehensive city widernpolicy. 1hese include: lack 0/ uniform mechanisms of superviSion, duplication of efjorts andrnwastage 0/ resources. Besides, there are major jcrctors and assumptions that hindered thernjurmulation oj'city wide policy. Factors such as lack oj'awareness among the rnajor stakeholderrnon the magnitude and scope of the problem: lack o/commitment and shortage o/resource in thernone hand, and strong believes on the broader international, national and sectoral policies asrnenough and adequate to address the problem on the other, are/ound to be the major impedimentrn.fur policyjiJrmulatiol1. Finally, the proposed policy option, which is initiated, based on the rightrn"ased and hulistic approach and the child Fiendly city initiative, has found a massive supportrnFom the re.lpondems. Hence, the proposed policy option has been presented as a mechanism tornaddress the aforementioned challenges in administering the interventions. Besides, additionalrnways of improving the existing situation have been indicated. These include; awareness creationrnon the prohlem, improving the resource base of the city administration and creation of uniformrntransparency and accountability mechanisms.