Specifically, the ADEA Working Group on ECD commissioned case studies of ECD policies in Ghana, Mauritius, and Namibia in 2000 2001 to identify lessons learned for other countries in Africa.
For example, two case studies commissioned by THET, examine the ways in which health partnerships provide a value for money approach to health workforce development [ 9].
For "Out of Ground Zero," the architectural historian Joan Ockman has commissioned a superlative series of instructive case studies of cities that have suffered greater loss of life and property than New York did last year.
In case studies of four commissioning organisations, we interviewed 52 people including clinical and managerial commissioners, observed 14 commissioning meetings and collected documentation e.g. meeting minutes and reports.
In examining the process of commissioning in this case study, we also employ a second theoretical frame drawing from a corporate governance perspective to examine the conditions for effective commissioning governance.
We systematically compared two national case studies (England, Germany) of current commissioning practice.
The CMAM evaluation in Nepal is part of a global evaluation commissioned by UNICEF, which covers five country case studies and a synthesis report.
The CMAM evaluation in Pakistan is part of a global evaluation commissioned by UNICEF, which covers five country case studies and a synthesis report.
A recent report on case studies of African countries commissioned by the High Level Forum on the Millennium Development Goals found, for example, that Kenya had some 5000 ghost workers on its payroll [ 14].
But case studies cannot assess the actual impact on commissioning and are not statistically generalisable.
Wider policy differences between the two NHS systems were reflected in differing contracting frameworks, involving regional commissioning in Wales and commissioning by either a PCT, or co-operating pair of PCTs in our English case studies, and also in different oversight arrangements by higher tiers of the service.
