Each of these topics helps illustrate a different strategy utilized, including engaging policy issues early, providing additional evaluations, engaging additional support, putting complimentary issues on a parallel track, utilizing flexibility in statutes, and ensuring frequent and direct stakeholder communication.
For CSOs to effectively engage in policy development, their skills must encompass navigating the political terrain, engaging policy makers, and networking, which call for high levels of internal organization and independence [ 16, 39].
"Iran adopted an open, engaging policy," Zarif said.
The approach is flexible and iterative, seeking to explicate underlying interventional theories and operational contexts, and often engaging policy or practice decision makers in the process.
This call for change indicates a general agreement on the need for the reorientation of architectural design education toward an engaging policy that considers the social responsibility of architects.
In order to improve utilisation of OR in policy making, recently, TORG has emphasised engaging policy makers through organising dissemination meetings and a workshop for writing policy briefs.
In response to the MDG4 most countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa region have instituted mechanisms and policies aimed at addressing weaknesses in their health systems and engaging policy makers to look at inequalities in outcomes.
This is critical to their ability to access the policy environment and conduct meaningful research, especially in policy analyses that require engaging with policy elites (Shiffman 2007), and when investigating sensitive issues of 'high politics' (Box 1).
We therefore, conclude with the very important policy recommendation that proposals for engaging insurance intermediaries for administering government funded health insurance schemes should be abandoned and instead business process outsourcing agencies should be engaged in their place directly.
Although engaging Iran produced no results, he said, "The engagement policy served to expose the Iranian government to the rest of the world, in terms of its policies, for what it is".
