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Designing effective water policy: capacity and effectiveness of reforms in developing countries

Policy & Society, 2019
Designing effective water policy in developing countries is challenging for many reasons, including limited capacity to formulate and implement policy. This paper examines major water policy reforms in two exemplary cases, Malaysia and the Metro Manila ...
Olivia Jensen
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Policy capacities and effective policy design: a review [PDF]

Policy Sciences, 2021
Effectiveness has been understood at three levels of analysis in the scholarly study of policy design. The first is at the systemic level indicating what entails effective formulation environments or spaces making them conducive to successful design. The second reflects more program level concerns, surrounding how policy tool portfolios or mixes can be
Ishani Mukherjee, M. Kerem Coban, Azad Singh Bali   +2 more
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Scoping review protocol to understand the conceptualisation, implementation and practices of health promotion within the context of primary healthcare in Africa

BMJ Open, 2021
Introduction The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of health promotion in empowering and sustaining communities, as well as the need to build resilient health systems and work collectively with other sectors to protect and promote ...
Pamela Obegu, Constantine Asahngwa, Veronica Shiroya, Ronald Gobina, Fleur Pembe Agbaw-Ebai, Mark Keboa, Denis Foretia   +6 more
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Task-specific policy capacities: A comparative analysis of cash transfer programs in Latin America and the Caribbean during the pandemic

International Review of Public Policy, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic required simultaneous, effective policy responses from numerous policy sectors. How have policy capacities enabled these responses? This paper analyzes social policy responses in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Guillermo M. Cejudo, Cynthia L. Michel, Pablo de los Cobos   +2 more
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A Causal Explanation of Capacity of Iranian Higher Education Policies Based on the Synergy of Policy Research Institutions [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi rahbarī va mudīriyyat-i āmūzishī, 2018
In recent years, Iran's higher education policies have lacked features such as defensible theoretical tradition, creative adaptation to global and international environmental developments, predictive capacity of actors' behavior, cohesion, integration ...
jafar amiri farahabadi, mahmood abolghasemi, mohammad ghahramani   +2 more
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The Impact of Local Government Capacity on Public Service Delivery: Lessons Learned from Decentralized Indonesia

Economies, 2022
The issue of poor local government capacity has been considered one of the problems impeding the implementation of decentralization, especially in developing countries.
Arif Setiawan, Prijono Tjiptoherijanto, Benedictus Raksaka Mahi, Khoirunurrofik Khoirunurrofik   +3 more
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Review of published evidence on knowledge translation capacity, practice and support among researchers and research institutions in low- and middle-income countries

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2020
Background Knowledge translation (KT) is a dynamic and iterative process that includes synthesis, dissemination, exchange and ethically sound application of knowledge to yield beneficial outcomes for society.
Violet Ibukayo Murunga, Rose Ndakala Oronje, Imelda Bates, Nadia Tagoe, Justin Pulford   +4 more
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Policymaking in a low-trust state: legitimacy, state capacity, and responses to COVID-19 in Hong Kong

Policy & Society, 2020
With indiscriminate geographic and socio-economic reach, COVID-19 has visited destruction of life and livelihoods on a largely unprepared world and can arguably be declared the new millennium’s most trying test of state capacity.
Kris Hartley, Darryl S. L. Jarvis
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Policy growth, implementation capacities, and the effect on policy performance

Governance, 2023
Abstract Democratic governments have constantly added new policies to existing policy stocks to confront societal, economic, and environmental challenges. This development has the potential to overburden public administrations in charge of policy implementation.
Fernández‐i‐Marín, Xavier, Hinterleitner, Markus, Knill, Christoph, Steinebach, Yves   +3 more
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Strengthening capacity to apply health research evidence in policy making: experience from four countries [PDF]

, 2016
Increasing the use of evidence in policy making means strengthening capacity on both the supply and demand sides of evidence production. However, little experience of strengthening the capacity of policy makers in low- and middle- income countries has ...
K Aulakh, B, Whitworth, J, Jadeja, Nidhee, Barge, S, Hawkes, Sarah, Ghaffar, Abdul, Anwar, Iqbal, Jimenez, Michelle, Odubanjo, M Oladoyin, Jadeja, N, Ghaffar, A, Anwar, I, Jimenez, M, Hawkes, S, Shukla, A, Shukla, Abhay, Odubanjo, MO, K Aulakh, Bhupinder, Buse, K, Buse, Kent, Barge, Sandhya, Whitworth, Jimmy   +21 more
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