The phrase "apply reform" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the implementation or enactment of changes or improvements in a system, policy, or practice.
Example: "The government plans to apply reform in the education sector to enhance student outcomes."
Alternatives: "implement reform" or "enact reform".
"There was not enough internal or external pressure like there is now to move forward and apply reform".
However, the health sector has some special challenges that make it important to apply reform efforts with care, as attested in the final two points addressing popular approaches to health sector reform.
In those countries in which high salaries apply, reform of salary scales has been among the recent HRH policy innovations, suggesting a trend that other countries, and at least Zimbabwe among our case study countries, may have little choice but to follow.
Athens correspondent Helena Smith reports: Prolonging the country's fiscal adjustment program, would officials say, give the breathing space Athens requires to apply reforms.
To apply reformed AS-PCR, which combined phosphorothioate-modified primers with exo+ polymerase, in single nucleotide polymorphism discrimination of mitochondrial DNA 10400 locus.
The motivation in Latin America to apply reforms was common to almost every country: each country's search for an enhanced competitiveness in international markets, associated with the need for a better transportation network.
Applying reforms only to new cases means there are fewer to deal with; but mothers in similar circumstances then receive different amounts of maintenance, depending on when they got divorced.
We are obliged to apply this reform.
The same rules apply whether reform is needed by one school or by all the schools in the district.
Under the 2010 law, the trading commission is supposed to apply swaps reforms outside the United States only if those activities have "a direct and significant connection with activities in, or effect on, commerce of the United States".
The directive explicitly states that supervisors can apply the reforms in different ways according to the institution's size, "internal organization and the nature, scope and complexity of their activities".
