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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Policy planning"”.
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School-based drug education in Northeast Scotland: policy, planning and practice.
… methods to gain a deeper insight into the policy, planning and practice of school-based drug education than had previously been achieved in Scotland. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with staff in nine Grampian secondary schools together with a case study of one school. The case …
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Machine learning and data analytics for multilayer data in policy planning
… multiple data types in education for effective policy planning by linking data analysis at multiple macro levels (district and school levels) and extend it demonstrate a proof of concept of connecting to micro levels. Achieving this task required the following steps: 1. Use an unsupervised …
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Human Resource Development and Africa's Economic Growth: Perspectives for Policy Planning in Kenya
… priorities and education in Kenya. Areas of policy concern are discussed, ranging from demand, supply, relevance, and efficiency of human capital formation through schooling. Unemployment and underdevelopment puts Kenya at crossroads in terms of the economic and educational policies pursued …
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The potential for trickle up : how local actors' experiments influence national forest policy planning
… forests in Vietnam encouraged central government policy makers to consider new ways to manage forest resources. A major forest policy shift -- moving away from state-led management -- began in earnest in pilot provinces in 1998, with the handing over of forest land and management responsibility to …
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Budget and policy planning in devolved Kenya: a case study of citizen participation in Nairobi county
… effective citizen participation in public policy; the partnership between local government and civil society does not automatically translate into effective partnerships because of poor civic capacity, unequal power dynamics, and unclear and insufficient guidelines with regards to …
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Small, Micro and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMMEs) in the uMhlathuze Local Municipality: tourism policy, planning and execution
… and Micro Enterprises) with regard to tourism policy planning and execution. In other words, the study wants to discover the role played by policy and practice in the planning of small, medium and micro enterprises in the uMhlathuze Local Municipality. Many of the tourism policies and …
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Working toward the public interest: integrating public and policy
The issue of public involvement in public policy planning is of fundamental importance for professional planners, public policy, and ultimately a problem of democratic governance. However, despite the attention given to this issue in literature and in practice, there is little agreement on the …
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Decision-Making, Liquidity and Risk Under Multiple-Cropping Conditions in Taiwan (Farming Systems)
… new crops. This has been accomplished by solid policy planning in conjunction with responsive and ambitious farmers.
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The anthropometric nutritional status of children 0-18 years old in the Western Cape Province of South Africa : a systematic review
… evidence for health-care decision-making and policy planning aimed at improving the nutritional status of children in the province.
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Selection of multicriteria decision making methodologies in scenario based planning
… methodologies to the area of scenario based policy planning. We examine how the tools of MCDM can be used to develop a Decision Support System (DSS) that would allow management or policy planners to resolve conflicting goals and interests. Ideally, the resolution would be obtained by the …
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A Systematic Evaluation of Climate Services and Decision Support Tools for Climate Change Adaptation
… with a view to aid in decision making and policy planning for adaptation due to climate variability and change. This study investigated different publicly available climate services and decision support tools based on previously proposed evaluation framework. This evaluation framework …
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Participatory Mapping of Health Indicators and Services as a Tool for Anticipatory Co Planning: Finding the local vioce in the rural context
A key factor to the Scottish Governments' Public policy and public service reconfiguration is collaborative working between service providers and service users in a framework of co-production. Despite this rhetoric of co-production of health services having been used for some time in health policy, …
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Continuity/discontinuity Between Home and School Patterns of Communication
… the Virgin Islands school system with data for policy planning and curriculum development. One basic research question (How do attitudes of parents, students, and teachers toward dialect affect the students' continuity/discontinuity of communication between home and school?) is presented, and …
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An explorative study of the experiences and needs of foster carers of HIV psoitive children in the Western Cape, South Africa
… to further study in this field and could inform policy, planning and intervention.
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Neoliberal social policy in the United States before Reagan
… Carter administration in promoting neoliberal policy in the United States. Policy-planning groups, with extensive connections to the U.S. government and transnational corporations, such as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, played crucial roles in pushing neoliberal …
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Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning For Success
… through the success of their students. Through policy, planning, and creating an environment that embraces a culturally relevant pedagogy, there is an opportunity to prepare a future generation of students to be ready for the challenges and ever-changing demands in college and careers.</p>
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The design of effective policies for the promotion of sustainable construction materials
This research explores the associated effects of policy tools employed to promote sustainable building materials. By comparing the original motivations and intended effects of these policies and their actual outcome, and subsequently understanding the reasons behind any disparities between them, we …
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Assessing the woody biomass supply chain in the Pacific Northwest and Great Lakes regions: Investigating policy as drivers of change
… it is essential to know the relationship between policy impacts on business innovation and investment decisions. This study looks at significant changes woody biomass business owners have implemented over the course of their operations, and how state and federal policies have affected those …
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Implementation of medium term expenditure framework in Namibia
… should be clearly taken as an integral part of policy planning from the beginning. The methodology of research was structured oral interviews, library research, government documents (reports), and mass media. It was found that there is a need for MTEF structures such as budget committees within …
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Practitioner Research in Schools: Revealing the Efficacy Agency Cycle
… teachers and other stakeholders into educational policy planning procedures. Veteran K-12 teachers’ responses to survey and interview questions were coded, analyzed, and organized into themes to generate an educational theory. Grounded Theory Methodologies (GTM), Culturally Responsive …
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