One of the frustrations of life for those who seek change, is the slow pace of reform. Policy reform in arts and culture is no exception. Governments offer promises, but they seem to take forever to arrive, and are often watered down when they do. Why is this so? We have no shortage of policies, Acts, discussion papers and other worthy documents telling us how things could change, but there is ...

PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION GUIDANCE | Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care 1 This Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care (EONC) Program Implementation Guidance outlines key steps, identifies available resources, and shares lessons learned to help country programs, donors, and governments to develop highquality and relevant EONC interventions. This guidance presents experience, evidence and lessons le...

PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION GUIDANCE | Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care 1 This Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care (EONC) Program Implementation Guidance outlines key steps, identifies available resources, and shares lessons learned to help country programs, donors, and governments to develop highquality and relevant EONC interventions. This guidance presents experience, evidence and lessons le...

This article examines how horizontal integration between the various departments of a local authority in the United Kingdom (UK) occurs. Following that the aim of this article is to extract the “success factors” in government intervention that support horizontal and vertical integration based on the strategies pursued in the UK in order to render favourable results if applied elsewhere. The res...

In most health care systems in most countries, providers are not adequately held accountable - by governments, purchasers, provider professional associations or civil society - for the quality of care. One approach to improve provider accountability that is being debated and implemented in a subset of developed countries and a smaller group of developing countries is provider-specific comparati...

We document the inßuence of local unemployment, political orientation and socio-economic background on individual citizen’s government support. From the point of view of the responsibility hypothesis, the inßuence of the local unemployment on the respondent’s government approval likelihood is somewhat confusing. During the right government the high local unemployment does not decrease responden...

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The ideas and findings in this report should not be construed as an official DoD position. It is published in the interest of scientific and technical information exchange. Use of any trademarks in this report is not intended in any way to infringe on the rights of the trademark holder. Internal use. Permission to reproduce this document and to prepare derivative works from this document for in...

The ideas and findings in this report should not be construed as an official DoD position. It is published in the interest of scientific and technical information exchange. Use of any trademarks in this report is not intended in any way to infringe on the rights of the trademark holder. Internal use. Permission to reproduce this document and to prepare derivative works from this document for in...