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Guidelines for local-level integrated water resource management: based on experiences from the SADC IWRM demonstration projects in Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Zambia
Water resource management / Guidelines / Multiple use / Participatory management / Community involvement / Malawi / Mozambique / Namibia / Swaziland / Zambia
HITECH Revisited
Assesses the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, which offers incentives to adopt and meaningfully use electronic health records. Recommendations include revised criteria, incremental approaches, and targeted policies
Ensuring Access to Care in Medicaid Under Health Reform
Outlines discussions about increasing primary care provider participation; specialist and mental health access; safety-net capacity; managed care plans, team-based care, and integrated service delivery; and coordinating Medicaid and exchange coverage
Location and Landscape in Literary Americanisms: H. L. Davis and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Well into the twentieth century, western American literature was still dismissed as regional or was boxed in by the genre expectations of pulp Westerns. This chapter focuses less on the causes of an eastern dismissal of western literature and more on what is unique about western literature, including how it reflects the larger western experience. Sumner looks at the particular Americanisms evident in the letters of the American West, using two short stories to make his argument: H. L. Davis’s Open Winter and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Babylon Revisited
The challenges for sustainable skills development in the UK automotive supply sector: policy and implementation
Original paper can be found at: http://www.gerpisa.univ-evry.fr/rencontre/16.rencontre/GERPISAJune2008/home.htmlThe European Automotive industry is a key strategic player in the European Union with an estimated 10 million workers. The majority of these work in the supply chain (CLEPA 2005). As a major employer, the sector must work to maintain its competitive edge if it is to keep that workforce engaged.Final Accepted Versio
Institutional Learning and Change: An initiative to promote greater impact through agricultural research for poverty alleviation
The ILAC Initiative consists of an evolving community of individuals committed to increasing the contributions of agricultural research to sustainable poverty reduction around the world. ILAC promotes research, methodology development and capacity development to increase understanding of agricultural change processes and increase the effectiveness of interventions to stimulate pro-poor innovation. This paper presents a broad overview of ILAC, including its background, origins and evolution, objectives and activities. It also presents the initiative’s central hypothesis and a set of guiding questions. Theoretical frameworks that show promise for increasing understanding of issues related to capacities to learn, facilitate innovation, and contribute to poverty reduction are introduced.agricultural, research, ILAC, pro-poor, innovation, farmers, Agricultural and Food Policy, Food Security and Poverty, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies,
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