Collectively, the programme involved implementing disaster mitigation and preparedness activities within the education sector in seven countries of the two sub-regions: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
We spoke to many leaders who highlighted examples of having to 'work around' funders' conditions and obtaining funding from varied sources so that collectively, the programme's resource needs could be adequately covered.
If we work together and harness the commitment of organisations such as my own, we can collectively develop programmes and policies that will allow every country to deliver on the commitments that they made just one year ago.
Collectively, these programmes have been described as 'a public policy disaster' (Duster 2003) and as a Dickensian axiom of 'How Not To Do It' (Markel 1992).
Since the inception of TEPHINET in 1997, the global network of FETPs (excluding the US EIS programme) collectively graduated 3678 epidemiologists, which is approximately 73% of all those who enrol.
That concern has led some countries, and the European Union collectively, to put programmes for grain fortification on hold.Dr Bailey and Dr Ayling stress that folic-acid pills are good during pregnancy, and that aspiring mothers should not give them up.
The UNDAF is a powerful example of how the UN agencies can come together to collectively align their programmes with priorities of the government," he said.
Finally, as long as NIPT is still significantly more expensive than cFTS, costs are an important barrier to introducing NIPT as a first test in publicly (or collectively) funded screening programmes for fetal aneuploidy.
Because of the reduced need for costly invasive testing, adding NIPT as a second test may be cost-neutral or even cost-saving, bringing this approach within easy reach of publicly (or collectively) funded screening programmes for fetal aneuploidy.
The NSA's collection operation – collectively referred to as the "Upstream" programme – relies on co-operation with four US telecoms providers.
