After 1945 the focus of creating new functional agencies shifted from scientific cooperation toward economic development.
However, this attempt to distinguish and segregate a technical-managerial approach to the functional agencies, as if a category of low politics could be kept separate from high politics, proved problematic in the later development of the functional agencies.
In the first place, a program would be progressively transferred to functional agencies, a process called "task expansion".
Functional agencies operate only within the territories of the states that choose to join them and do not therefore threaten state sovereignty.
New functional issues such as combating HIV/AIDS and promoting wider access to information technologies arose but were predicted to most likely combine the traditional role of the functional agencies with NGO and corporate partnerships.
At the turn of the 21st century, the combined growth of global civil society and the transnational business sector appeared to progressively narrow the range of services historically and uniquely associated with the functional agencies.
As the period of liberal multilateralism, 1945 to 1975, began to break down, the New Deal lineage left the functional agencies vulnerable to critics of both the right and the left.
In this new system, home-visit nursing agencies were divided into three classifications (Classifications I, II, and General); highly functional agencies of Classification I and II were provided greater reimbursement from the government for services based on the number of such patients in the previous year [ 4].
An additional 900 village health facilities outside the Katmandu Valley are non-functional, the agency says.
Consequently, due to the competing interests of agencies and functional groups within highway agencies, the planning process often yields results that are sub-optimal for individual agencies or functional groups within the same agency.
