Lessons for policy makers and practitioners
Empowering communities to influence local decision making Evidence-based lessons for policy makers and practitioners
... L ‘Like to’ rests on the idea that people’s felt sense of being part of something encourages them to engage. The argument is that if you feel a part of something then you are more willing to engage. If you feel excluded ...
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Lessons for Policy Makers in Non-High Speed Rail Countries: A Review
... High speed intercity passenger rail is an inherently strong railway application. It operates over 250 km/hour. For perspective, high-speed represents the ultimate development of preexisting standard gauge infrastructure. ...
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High-Speed Rail: lessons for policy makers from experiences abroad
... Abstract In April 2009 the US government unveiled its blueprint for a national network of high-speed passenger rail (HSR) lines aimed at reducing traffic congestion, cutting national dependence on foreign oil and ...
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Engaging environmental policy-makers with systematic reviews: challenges, solutions and lessons learned
... the policy-mak- ing cycle and for improving the use of evidence in environmental ...engaging policy-makers with SRs and, using experiences of producing SRs with Government Departments and Agencies ...
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Increasing the scale and adoption of population health interventions: experiences and perspectives of policy makers, practitioners, and researchers
... Limitations and further research Though this is the first study to comprehensively examine how scaling up decision-making processes occur in the real world across a range of projects and settings, it did not examine the ...
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Getting lost in translation? An analysis of the international engagement of practitioners and policy-makers with the educational effectiveness research base
... The EER field has evolved over three decades in a relatively incremental way, usually compartmentalising findings into the separate areas of SER, TER and SSIR. This demarcation has made the generation of over-arching ...
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Transfer of Skills from Spanish to English: A Study of Young Learners REPORT FOR PRACTITIONERS, PARENTS, AND POLICY MAKERS
... 1 Project Objectives and Design While many studies have demonstrated some correlation between first-language reading skills and second-language reading ability, in many cases the argument can be made that factors not ...
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Establishing a community of practice of researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and communities to sustainably manage environmental health risks in Ecuador
... We would like to especially acknowledge the contributions of Veronica Moreno and Rosamelia Andrade, project coordinators over the course of the project; Marcello Veiga, Fabio Cabarcas and other international team and ...
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Negotiating with groups that use terrorism: Lessons for policy-makers
... Although talks frequently falter along the way, the opening of negotiations engenders a range of effects, from improved capacity for intelligence and the probing of political agendas, to the splintering of organizations ...
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Unmanned aircraft systems for emergency management: a guide for policy makers and practitioners
... Even as policies begin to emerge, there is a policy gap at the local and state levels of government that must be bridged for an emergency management UAS program, as the policy will var[r] ...
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Spectrum Refarming in Sri Lanka: Lessons for Policy Makers and Regulators
... spectrum policy. Spectrum Policy Spectrum in Sri Lanka has generally been bundled with operating licenses and allocated on a first-come first-served ...this policy took place in 2003, when a closed ...
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Early childhood education and care:key lessons from research for policy makers
... government policy oversight, and where most ECEC provision is located in the private and voluntary sector (Sosinsky et al, 2007; OECD, ...ECEC policy development and implementation in ...
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Pharmaceuticalisation and ethical review in South Asia : issues of scope and authority for practitioners and policy makers.
... Drawing on a large scale study of biomedical experimentation across South Asia, and specifically on interviews with 24 ethical review committee [ERC] members across India, Sri Lanka an[r] ...
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Pharmaceuticalisation and ethical review in South Asia: Issues of scope and authority for practitioners and policy makers
... Here we draw principally on extended interviews with a small sub-set of Ethical Review Committee [ERC] members from India [14], Sri Lanka [6] and Nepal [6]. In many respects, the sample is unrep- resentative of the wider ...
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Community based interventions for obesity prevention: lessons learned by Australian policy makers
... The importance of opportunities to incorporate les- sons learned as a program progresses has also become clear. A set of ‘ best practice principles ’ developed by the Collaboration of Community-based Obesity Prevention ...
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Character, knowledge and skills in ancient Greek education: Lessons for today’s policy makers
... amassing wealth individuals tend to become arrogant, power hungry and quite de- structive of social cohesion. To tame these instincts and exploit them for the benefit of their city-state, they were very inventive. As we ...
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Practical lessons for bringing policy-makers on board in sexual and reproductive health research
... of policy-makers, however they also suggest that local barriers between researchers and policy-making spheres and individuals can represent major hindrances to the realization of translation ...and ...
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Some lessons for policy makers who deal with the mixed blessing of capital inflows
... such policy advice, of course, is James Tobin, who has for many years advocated imposing a transactions tax to shift investors’ focus to longer-term and, presumable, more stable outlets for their ...
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Determinants of Clinician Knowledge on Aging and HIV/AIDS: A Survey of Practitioners and Policy Makers in Kampala District, Uganda
... Questions related to co-morbidities in HIV/AIDS (non-AIDS related cancers and systemic diseases) and chronic antiretroviral treatment toxicities (metabolic disorders) accounted for signi[r] ...
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Attracting and retraining talent: lessons for Scottish policy makers from the experiences of scottish expatriates in Dublin
... growing policy interest in using in-migration to firstly compensate for Scotland’s falling fertility levels, ageing population structure and resultant growth in skill shortages, and secondly attract to Scotland an ...
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