A simmering crisis in the Nigerian agriculture today involves labour and the crisis manifests itself in the degree of labour availability, labour demand and labour productivity. One of the major products of this crisis is the increased participation of children in paid, non-familiar agricultural jobs. Agriculture ranks as one of the three most dangerous work activities, along with mining and co...

BACKGROUND National community health worker (CHW) programmes are returning to favour as an integral part of primary health care systems, often on the back of pre-existing community based initiatives. There are significant challenges to the integration and support of such programmes, and they require coordination and stewardship at all levels of the health system. This paper explores the leaders...

The complex multi-criteria optimisation problems arising in Kidney Exchange Programmes have received considerable attention both practice and the scientific literature. Whereas theoretical advancements are well reviewed synthesised, this is not case for practice. We present a synthesis of models methods applied European Programmes, which based on detailed descriptions we created purpose. Most a...

The study intends to identify, analyse and evaluate essential outcomes from national programmes supporting the development of work organisation and to derive recommendations for future initiatives. In particular, it covers the following issues: • to identify and describe existing national programmes in EU Member States, • to evaluate the impact of those programmes on the development and spreadi...

The concept of a National Forest Programme (NFP) is not new. It was first popularised in the 1980s when the Food and Agriculture Organisation, along with the World Bank, United Nations Development Programme and World Resources Institute, launched the Tropical Forests Action Programme (TFAP). There were five action programmes within the TFAP: forestry in land use; forest-based industrial develop...

This report outlines findings and recommendations of a national pharmacovigilance workshop held in August 2012 in South Africa (SA). A survey of current pharmacovigilance activities, conducted in preparation for the meeting, identified multiple programmes collecting drug safety data in SA, with limited co-ordination at national level. The meeting resolved that existing pharmacovigilance program...

To ensure successful compliance with information security (InfoSec) policy and standards, organisations must harmonise their InfoSec training programmes with the national culture of the local workforce. A successful InfoSec policy must demonstrate the value of security, not just the requirement for security. We conducted a quantitative study of 177 professionals across 35 national cultures to i...

To determine if the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) affected financing of routine immunization programmes, we compared sources and uses of funds for routine immunization programmes and PEI activities in Bangladesh, C te d'Ivoire, and Morocco for the years 1993-98. We also examined funding trends for these years in these countries and assessed the effect of the initiative on the availa...