For years, donors have been saying that for aid to be effective, developing countries should be in the driving seat when choosing priorities.
Whoever forms a government after polling day will soon be choosing priorities in the public sector that are bound to alienate voters and aggravate trade unions.
Could it perhaps be that the inclusivity of UN and world politics is directly counteractive to the imperative of pruning – of making hard, unpalatable decisions, of choosing priorities, and asking the rest to wait?
"The first one is the activation of relations in the political sphere, cleaning up the mess and choosing priorities of cooperation between the two states in the economic sphere," he said.
Managing the base is a matter of choosing priorities – there are a number of specific rooms covering science research, weapon production, and so on, but each can only work on a single project and you'll always have a big list.
However, we cannot do so without choosing priorities, given restrictions of time and resources.
Operating under line budgets reduced the flexibility of hospitals in choosing priorities and allocating resources across them (Kapiriri and Martin 2006).
In an effort to improve the health gain that might be achieved from allocated resources, a sector-wide framework has been developed for planning, choosing priorities, and committing funds in accordance with agreed priorities.
An explicit framework for identifying problems, for choosing priorities and objectives, and for rational assessment of alternatives for intervention can be a tool for decision-makers to justify their choices [ 9].
