The Norwegian Action Plan, for instance, has been selected as a good practice example for physical activity policy in Europe on several occasions.
In evaluation, the descriptive data were compared with the conditions of 'accountability for reasonableness' – correspondence with the framework was considered 'good practice'; instances where the conditions are not met were considered 'opportunities for improvement'.
Additional good practices, for instance Qena's sustainable education budget and ways to ensure access and learning achievement, along with Assiut's most effective local committees, should be shared.
The report did find some instances of good practice, though.
There are numerous instances of good practice in the prison system and many dedicated staff work with shrinking budgets to turn inmates' lives around, but the challenge they face is growing as conditions deteriorate and tensions rise behind bars.
Mr Duxbury said he accepted the criticism but also noted the report highlighted some instances of good practice and referred to notable improvements.
The study advocated several improvements, suggesting that DfID should: focus on ensuring that all business cases have a clearly flagged statement of gender impact; increase the quality of gender analysis by, for instance, sharing good practice from gender-sensitive and gender-transformative programmes; and address issues of transparency.
It is not necessary to find every instance of good practice or bad practice (special cause variation).
It is also important to recognise that in the context of quality improvement finding a single instance of good practice or bad practice (special cause variation) is sufficient for an organisation to learn and hence to improve.
Instances where current law falls short of the guidelines were noted, as were examples of good practice that could be used as models for law reform.
