Lessons for Programmes and Policy Makers
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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Empowering communities to influence local decision making Evidence-based lessons for policy makers and practitioners
... What lessons can be drawn from real attempts to empower communities? This question is a fundamentally simple but nonetheless elusive one to ...to policy makers and practitioners alike, community ...
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Trade And Industrial Policy Analysis With Specific Reference To Automotive Industry Programmes: Lessons For Developing Countries
... important lessons for South Africa and other developing ...recent policy reforms on the development and performance of their respective automotive ...government policy in shaping the industries over ...
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Lessons from major rail infrastructure programmes
... Summary Lessons from major rail infrastructure programmes 11 Governance arrangements will need to adapt during programme ...other programmes (paragraphs ...
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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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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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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
... would policy makers today in streamlining the educational systems in their countries? One hint, and very important at that, is that in adapting either of these two educational systems, policy ...
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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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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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A simple model of trading and pricing risky assets under ambiguity: any lessons for policy-makers?
... that policy makers have explicitly and implicitly dealt with financial turmoil and impaired market functioning in the most direct way, ...that policy-makers directly intervene in the collapsed ...
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Trading Justice for Security? UN Anti-terrorism, Due Process Rights and the Role of the Judiciary: Lessons for policy makers
... this policy paper is to highlight the role of the judiciary in reconciling counter-terrorism strategies with human rights ...of policy-makers risks deepening the human rights crisis caused by the ...
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Lessons from a five-year research programme on FGM/C and their relevance for policy and programmes in Kenya
... The focus on data for girls aged 0–14 years was important because patterns of FGM/C prevalence among the youngest age group reflect the most recent changes to the practise. Key findings identified Mandera (47%), Wajir ...
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Lessons from Agricultural Policies and Programmes in Nigeria
... 3.1.Farm Settlement Scheme (FSS) This was initiated by some regional governments in Nigeria and was a critical element of Western Nigeria Policy of Agricultural and Natural Resources of 1959. The main objective of ...
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Programmes to Protect the Hungry: Lessons from India
... There have been four phases, broadly speaking, in the history of the PDS in India (Swaminathan, 2000). The first phase was from its origins to 1960, a period when the system was expanded to other cities. During the first ...
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From UNDERSTANDING THE DEBATE OVER GOVERNMENT-OWNED BROADBAND NETWORKS: Context, Lessons Learned, and a Way Forward for Policy Makers
... & Policy Institute The Advanced Communications Law & Policy Institute (ACLP) at New York Law School is an interdis- ciplinary public policy program that focuses on identifying and analyzing ...
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