Speaker after speaker — including Mr. Karzai — described corruption and poor governance as obstacles to the country's development, factors that have caused reluctance among many countries about sending aid, especially given the economic crises in Europe and the United States.
A lack of clear accountability mechanisms at the district health system level and minimal inclusion of health workers affairs in developed health policies are mentioned elsewhere to be major central governance related obstacles that hamper policy implementation at the local level [ 58- 60].
Social inequality and poor governance are real obstacles to the growth of organisations in emerging markets.
"There are massive structural, governance, and policy obstacles to education reform.
Those who benefit from imbalances of power over the Internet might think this is good news; the end of 'Internet Governance' could remove obstacles to complete domination.
Although health service boards are eager to establish quality of care as a governance priority, several obstacles are blocking progress.
Effectively implementing the IHR 2005 surveillance objectives requires surmounting technical, resource, governance, legal, and political obstacles.
A rights-informed code would be targeted at the structural level of governance frameworks that impose obstacles to data sharing, not at the level of individuals, whom we stress are not obligated to share genomic or clinical data.
IHR 2005 not only included national obligations to achieve a set of core surveillance and response capacities by eliminating technical, resource, governance, legal and political obstacles in the health system, it also required members to assess any public health emergency of international concern within 48 hours and to notify the WHO within 24 hours to ensure the timely receipt of the information.
The reason is that both these groups — the private sector and civil society — see poor governance as the biggest obstacle they face.
