Dr. Nahlen endorsed programs like those in Ethiopia, in which 30,000 village health workers are taught to use rapid test kits.
The Joint Learning Initiative on Children and H.I.V./AIDS, which brought together dozens of international experts to review hundreds of studies, this year strongly endorsed programs that give the poorest families modest financial support, including cash transfer programs like Malawi's.
But in a speech on growing income inequality earlier this year, he endorsed programs to provide job retraining for displaced workers and new laws to improve the portability of health and pension benefits between employers.
Arguably the greatest challenge faced by countries is the lack of Government endorsed programs that instil a dedicated effort to consistent monitoring of forests at national scale [17].
"Any program that doesn't have that kind of evaluation attached to it or industry recognition would be of concern to me," says Emily DeRocco, president of the Manufacturing Institute, the education and research arm of the National Association of Manufacturers that endorses certificate programs in fields like welding, computerized machining and metalwork.
Lawmakers also have political incentives to endorse the programs many have voted for previously.
"Ask them, 'If I get this certificate, will it make the difference?' " Many trade groups endorse particular programs.
Fellow delegates sat impassively in red velvet armchairs, arranged in a semicircle, as Mr. He, and then a dozen others like him in dark suits and chaste ties, spoke up to endorse political programs formulated in secret by their leaders.
But VA and DoD are not permitted to "endorse" specific programs, so this became a frustrating, dysfunctional catch-22.
The Democrats' mode of alliance is to appeal to the entire class of employees by endorsing state programs of mass economic, social and cultural support.
