Sector wide approaches: practical approach to planning and management, which is about coherence of policies and strategies, decision-making, resource allocation and interventions within a sector.
The new course explains differences and linkages between the two issues, while presenting concrete strategies to strengthen the impact and coherence of policies and programmes by considering them together.
In strengthening the health sector, national health systems stewards need to ensure alignment and coherence of policies, priorities amongst different stakeholders; manage and coordinate partnerships and expectations; and implement and foster ownership of health systems interventions at national and subnational levels.
Several potential factors responsible for the decline in dispersion in Europe are the harmonization of tax rates, convergence of income and labor costs, liberalization of trade and factor markets, and increased coherence of monetary policy.
To advance the policy relevance of ecosystem service trade-off analysis, we analyse the coherence of Finnish policies affecting forest bioenergy and carbon sequestration, two contrasting means to use forests for climate change mitigation.
Safety climate assessments, in addition, afford a valuable means of assessing the coherence of organisational policies and practices related to safety which, as the nature of the work system changes, are also likely to evolve.
These include evidence of: saliency of decent work as an issue worthy of pursuit; congruence between the Agenda and the organizational objectives of others (e.g. fit between decent work and social determinants of health and health as a human right); and, policy coherence through shaping of policy discourses and practices.
But the idea that the director of fair access and his office can be traded off against loan repayment policies, or is somehow up for negotiation by the coalition, is deeply concerning for the future coherence of higher education policy and to those who care about fair access.
