Integrating natural resources management in the secondary school curriculum in Kenya has received a lot of talk without adequate practical activities. The Farmers of the Future Programme under the World Agroforestry Centre, formally the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF), initiated a practical approach to integration of natural resources management in the secondary school...

The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Oral Health Programme has worked hard over the past five years to increase the awareness of oral health worldwide as an important component of general health and quality of life. Meanwhile, oral disease is still a major public health problem in high income countries and the burden of oral disease is growing in many low- and middle income countries. In ...

The UNDP country offices work with governments and partners to carry out a Country Programme (CP) to tackle poverty and its causes. A Country Programme Action Plan (CPAP), covering the duration of the programme cycle (typically 5 years) is developed and signed with the Government and it forms the basis of the cooperation between UNDP and the host Government. UNDP uses a Result Based Management ...

A research programme that aims to improve the state of the art in shoulder joint replacement surgery has been initiated at the Delft University of Technology. Development of improved endoprostheses for the upper extremities (DIPEX), as this effort is called, is a clinically driven multidisciplinary programme consisting of many contributory aspects. A part of this research programme focuses on t...

OBJECTIVE To explore the barriers and facilitators experienced by those implementing a government-funded, community-based childhood weight management programme. DESIGN Qualitative using semistructured interviews. SETTING Two geographical regions in the south and west of Ireland. PARTICIPANTS 29 national-level and local-level stakeholders responsible for implementing the programme, includi...

Les programmes d’entraînement aux habiletés parentales (PEHP) peuvent prévenir les problèmes associés à une faible préparation l’école. Un défi majeur concerne toutefois l’engagement des participants au programme, près de la moitié ne complétant pas. Or, parents a incidence sur bénéfices qu’en retirent et enfants. La présente étude porte prédicteurs toutes composantes comportementales participa...

In Denmark, the first Action Plan for the Aquatic Environment (I) was introduced in 1987. The target was a 50% reduction in nitrogen emissions to the aquatic environment by 1993. Measures were directed towards the individual farmer and included the establishment of slurry tanks with 9 month storage capacity and obligations to grow winter crops on 65% of the area. In the early 1990s, it was obvi...

ABET 2000 requires new approaches to quality control and continuous improvement in engineering programs. It is instructive to analyze this control in terms familiar to the engineering community and to consider the implications for classroom and program level practices. A common approach to program assessment is to monitor student and graduate success statistically. This is analogous to using st...

Background Nigeria accounts for a significant proportion of global maternal mortality figures with little progress made in curbing poor health indices. In a bid to reverse this trend, the Government of Nigeria initiated a conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme to encourage pregnant women utilize services at designated health facilities. This study aims to understand experiences of women who ...