While the revolutionary promise of SWAps was not fully realised, the persuasiveness of its central arguments for local leadership, alignment with local policy, and harmonisation of procedures have endured in national level coordination mechanisms [ 1].
The instruments of coordination were essentially a formalisation of attempts by donors to coordinate activities within the sector amongst themselves: geographical zoning, sub-sector specialisation, donor consortia, project co-financing, sector aid, harmonisation of procedures, ear-marked budgetary support, donor agency reform and inter-agency intelligence gathering [ 3, 9].
Thus, the working programme of the project BE 1702 HIDA, which addressed the validation, expansion and harmonisation of existing procedures for high temperature defect assessment, included a comprehensive experimental programme with feature tests of components as its core.
"Measures considered included the possibility of joint policing in a defined area along both sides of the Irish border, and the harmonisation of law enforcement procedures as between Northern Ireland and the Republic," the government papers reveal.
In this context, multi-professional engagement together with educational institutions and equipment manufacturers will facilitate the required development of strategies for the harmonisation of ionising radiation procedures and standards of practice, since several studies have highlighted the heterogeneous use of technology and the unanticipated patient and staff dose increases.
Everyone knows that only a strengthening of judicial cooperation can make a significant contribution to the fight against terrorism and organised crime, and that implies mutual recognition of judicial decisions, exchange of information and harmonisation of guarantees relating to legal procedure.
These findings reinforced the necessity of pre-harmonisation procedures in future waves of data collection in which agreement on used instruments and measurements is reached before starting a study, resulting in a pre-harmonized dataset.
Although the inter-laboratory exercise revealed poor repeatability of AgNPs toxicity results, this study provides valuable information regarding the importance of harmonisation of all steps in the test procedure.
A strength of this study is the standardization of procedures for screening, swabbing and microbiological culture in the context of a clinical trial conducted according to International Conference on Harmonisation Good Clinical Practice guidelines.
As reported in a previous paper [1], the main objective of the new commission of the Société Française des Sciences et Techniques Pharmaceutiques (SFSTP) was the harmonisation of approaches for the validation of quantitative analytical procedures.
Considering the existing market infrastructure, this could be achieved through consolidation and reconciliation of standards' requirements and procedures, eventually leading towards quality harmonisation of the supplied A/R credits to the market.
