The first health impact assessment (HIA) performed on a high level local government policy in New Zealand was undertaken on the Greater Christchurch Urban Development Strategy in 2005. This report describes its development and implementation and the results from the process evaluation including some recommendations made in the assessment. We concluded that HIA is a useful tool for local governm...

today, a way of gaining constant and dynamic development is reforming of the ownerships structure, from governmental ownership to privatization ownership. so this policy in many countries, especially in developing countries, as a strategic policy has been used. compilation and performing principle 44, s policies of iran islamic republic law constitution which parliament has confirmed. one of th...

Improved interoperability between public and private organizations is of key significance to make digital government newest triumphant. Digital Government interoperability, information sharing protocol and security are measured the key issue for achieving a refined stage of digital government. Flawless interoperability is essential to share the information between diverse and merely dispersed o...

[1] Biofuelwatch, London Mining Network and Corporate Watch press release for immediate use 19th February 2015 Campaigners warn Government against granting up to £1 billion of tax payers' money for Drax carbon capture scheme White Rose Coal Power plant with Carbon Capture and Storage dubbed " White Elephant " as similar US scheme collapses The US Government has pulled the plug on a flagship car...

China today faces the rigorous aging problem. In the traditional sense, the government has the duty to take over all the public affairs including the social elderly care. However, the expanding demand of social elderly care and the limited social resources extremely restrict the process of social elderly care affairs, and in addition, the social elderly care in so-called governmental institutio...

This paper was commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Denmark as a background document for a conference hosted by the Danish government on 25 and 26 November 2010 on ‘Risk and Results Management in Development Cooperation: Towards a Common Approach’. It is based on a series of interviews with humanitarian actors, including donors, international NGOs and UN agencies...

The construction of e-government entails the construction of an information system connecting the government with its society. The infrastructure and content of the applications determine the success of an e-government's implementation. Limitations of Internet access and people's awareness are the main problems in most developing countries, including Indonesia. Thus, the implementers of Indones...

Public entrepreneurship is a management approach developed by the reinventing government movement. Reinvention is a response to more than two decades of conservative attacks on the efficacy of government. The Proposition 13 property tax revolt in California in the early 1970s started a relentless public and media fueled campaign for government to do more with less. The administrations of Ronald...

Accessibility of government Web sites is an important factor for inclusion of disabled persons to be able to fully utilize a variety of government services and information. In this paper, we examine the levels of disability accessibility for a variety of e-government sites in the European Union (EU), Asia and Africa. The study was conducted in 2008, and the results showed that the vast majority...

Pharmaceutical policy in Canada is set at both the federal and provincial levels of government. The federal government is responsible for intellectual property rights of manufacturers (patents) and the initial approval and labelling of prescription drugs and for ensuring overall market competitiveness. The provincial government has responsibility and jurisdiction over the funding of all health ...