Agroecology is best supported by responsible governance mechanisms at different scales.
Most challenges faced during the implementation of EmOC were related to governance issues at different levels and included delays in disbursement of funds from the central government, shortages of health workers, unclear mechanisms for accountability, lack of incentives to motivate overburdened staffs and lack of guidelines for partnership development.
As adaptation to climate change emerges as a concern of government at different scales, there is a need to evaluate how forms of governance can influence adaptive capacity.
While typically distant from the field of operation, constitutional governance could obtain at different levels, such as different tiers of government, and may arise from non-government actors such as traditional leaders, religious leaders, national and international NGOs and global health organizations.
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.
In the database, 296 experiments (47%) involved some form of formally recognised partnership between actors at different governance levels, whether this is in terms of vertical governance (e.g. partnerships between local, regional and national governments) or horizontal (e.g. partnerships between governments, civil society organisations and private actors).
The paper proposes a framework that builds on concepts encompassing three principal identifiers of coherent institutional governance – motivation, capacity, and interventions – to respond to the questions: What institutional arrangements emerge at different governance levels to promote energy efficiency as a policy?
This dissertation investigates how the value perspectives held by farmers and other stakeholders at different governance levels in Japan influence farmland tenancy arrangements.
The shared purpose of the contributions is to examine how the multiple societal expectations concerning agrarian landscapes might be incorporated into land use policy at different governance levels.
Through a content analysis of international scholarly literature from North America, Australia, UK, South Africa and Germany, in addition to key informant interviews from case studies in Germany and New Zealand, the paper critically examines garden governance structures and practices at different stages of garden development.
