New Generation Nuclear: From Policy To Implementation?, November 17-18 Chatham House, 10 St James's Square, London John Hutton, secretary of state for business, and Dennis Spurgeon, assistant secretary for nuclear energy at the US Department of Energy, deliver keynote speeches at a conference looking at the expansion and future of nuclear energy worldwide.
A panel discussion provided insights into the translation from research and policy to implementation by practitioners.
The United Nations, in finalising its Sustainable Development Goals, a blueprint for the investment of trillions of development dollars over the next 15 years, wants more than cash from the corporate sector; it wants their involvement at every stage of development from policy creation to implementation.
We look specifically at the different ECD policies and institutional arrangements in four countries in East Africa: Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and draw out some cross-country lessons for moving from policy development to implementation.
Through an open governance system, we ensure the participation of all citizens in the whole process involving energy, from policy planning to implementation.
These riders could come in different forms and scopes, from abortion policy to the implementation of health care reform.
Moreover, new challenges emerge as Oxfam moves from assessing policy to assessing implementation, which Oxfam itself stresses is "complex as it involves thousands of suppliers in dozens of countries where much of the commercial activity remains hidden or undisclosed".
A flexible adaptive management and equity conscious approach is recommended from the policy design to implementation, by anticipating and mitigating potential risks of REDD+ interventions in order to promote equitable outcomes at the local level.
The intention is to look not only at the mechanisms by which the CLAHRCs moved from policy idea to programme implementation, but to analyse how the participants at each level framed their understanding of the policy and programme, and to determine the degree of congruence within and amongst the levels in their understandings of the programme.
Complete documentation of and/or research on any one policy, from development to implementation to impact, was only apparent if such details were included in an individual peer-reviewed article.
This framework was valuable for this analysis because it brought relevant insights from policy implementation literature to bear on understanding local-level health systems governance issues, including seeing these issues in relation to higher level national and organizational arrangements.
