This paper provides a review of existing regional oceans governance mechanisms, assessing their individual and collective capacities to move towards ecosystem-based management, and highlighting options to make the regional landscape more coherent and effective.
The authors adapt the UNDP good governance concept [ 14] to produce a framework which encompasses ten health system governance principles to assess governance of the health system.
The five measurement instruments are summarized in Table 4 and available in full in the Additional file 1.> PPHCCs used two self-assessment scales for assessing governance of the committee as a whole.
Governance self-assessment scores across multiple dimensions of governance were the best measures we had for assessing governance.
We studied 37 types of contemporary problems defined by German water governance to assess the impact of problem complexity on policy delivery through public authorities.
More precisely, it investigates the factors affecting inter-organizational relationships and governance and assesses the influence that the current conditions of vertical coordination and collaboration have on the economic performance of firms in the traditional dairy sheep supply chain in Sardinia Italyy).
Like Siddiqi et al (2009) we also recommend that governance is assessed at different levels of the system such as the community, health facility, district, through to the national policy level and beyond [ 41], even considering the influence of other organisations such as unions, insurance companies and international partners who may profoundly affect the relationships and rules of the system.
Based on these, we propose a simplified approach to look at governance within a common health system framework which encourages stewards to take a systematic perspective when assessing governance.
The aim was to establish whether the statements were valid for assessing governance practices at primary care level and to identify the latent factors or domains of governance that were captured in the 17 statements or items.
The default for assessing governance seems to be one of three things.
Emphasis is placed on assessing governance effectiveness according to characteristics appropriate within the local context, and on suggesting ways to enhance local institutional strength and capacity to manage resources.
