These were part and parcel of the operational research approach which required capacity building in the provision of new services (e.g. diagnostic tests at community facilities in CS3, and VCT within different sites and modalities in CS1) or new players in service provision (e.g. grocery store owners in CS2).
The intervention in this project will draw on the experience of the past 10 years in building the Cochrane Collaboration through infrastructure provision, training, support and methodological development and will involve local researchers to ensure the intervention is regionally appropriate and designed to increase capacity within SE Asia.
We use the WHO (2007) definition of governance which is " ensuring strategic policy frameworks exist and are combined with effective oversight, coalition-building, the provision of appropriate regulations and incentives, attention to system-design, and accountability"[ 20].
The World Health Organization (2007, p. 3) defines health system governance as a national function entailing that 'ensuring strategic frameworks exist and are combined with effective oversight, coalition-building, the provision of appropriate regulations and incentives, attention to system design and accountability'.
For the past 22 years, the BMA has been the leading body for health policy development and capacity building for the provision of quality health care services in ethnic areas of Burma/Myanmar.
Those rules, however, have evolved over the chamber's history, and pressure is building to abolish the provision that now essentially gives individual members veto power.
In addition to management support, recognition of the extent of culture change is required, as is capacity building through training, the provision of resources, and dedicated staff to drive change, consult, collaborate and evaluate.
Building envelopes designed and installed in accordance with model building code provisions are the minimum acceptable solution permitted by law.
The National Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Policy aims at providing direction to decision makers and program managers to effectively implement Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights SRHRR) services, providing guidelines for capacity building for provision of quality SRHR services, and informing and guiding stakeholders and partners on SRHR issues.
Perhaps most importantly, however, the necessity of building in provisions and scope for adaptations to the study in advance of intervention implementation, on an ex ante basis, should be borne in mind both by planners and scientists.
