Objective: To analyze successful national smokefree policy implementation in Colombia, a middle income country. Materials and methods: Key informants at the national and local levels were interviewed and news sources and government ministry resolutions were reviewed. Results: Colombia's Ministry of Health coordinated local implementation practices, which were strongest in larger cities with...

The 3rd African Population Conference, held in Dakar, Senegal, December 7-12, 1992, adopted the draft Dakar/Ngor Declaration on Population, Family and Sustainable Development in preparation for the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development. The meeting was attended by 50 member states and many observers from various United Nations Organizations and nongovernmental organi...

leadership and management competencies required of successful executives of nongovernmental social welfare organizations. This paper summarizes the discrete competencies, summarizes the unique components of leadership, distinguishes leadership from management; and, identifies the sources of power and authority executives may draw upon for these purposes. The paper goes on to identify the specif...

In September 1993, ten countries sent delegations representing their governments, nongovernmental organizations, the private sector and academic communities to discuss implementing a new development paradigm with representatives from development assistance agencies. At the request of the project's sponsors the governments of Japan and the Netherlands and the United Nations Development Programme...

Objectives. The goal of this research is to examine the role of modernization (i.e., structural conduciveness) in the form of income, telephone price and structure, education, and political structures, and global contact in the form of world cities, trade, investment, activities of international nongovernmental organizations, and short-term exchanges of population in driving the worldwide diffu...

BACKGROUND Collaborative partnerships are an essential means to concomitantly improve both education outcomes and health outcomes among K-12 students. METHODS We describe examples of contemporaneous, interactive, and evolving partnerships that have been implemented, respectively, by a national governmental health organization, national nongovernmental education and health organizations, a sta...

Sixteen years earlier -in 1978 -WFPHA had developed a position paper representing the views of the international nongovernmental community that was presented at the International Conference on Primary Health Care held in Alma-Ata, of the former Kazakh SSR. That paper expressed the enthusiastic support of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) for the goal of ‘Health for All’ by the Year 2000 thro...

As the power and influence of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in international debates on social and moral matters increases, questions concerning their legitimacy and accountability become all the more challenging. Some starting points are given for a defensible account of the legitimacy and accountability of internationally operating NGOs. Special attention is given to the use of new inf...