A number of governmental and non-governmental agencies provide forecasts and provide assessments of government programmes.
Additionally, we will evaluate the impact of two government programmes that aim to address early childhood disadvantage, the NSW Aboriginal Maternal and Infant Health Service and the Brighter Futures Program.
US technology firms have repeatedly raised concerns about the impact of the NSA revelations on their ability to operate around the world, and earlier this month Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, and Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, met President Barack Obama to voice their concerns about the commercial impact of government surveillance programmes.
Community level data on inequalities in early child development are therefore required to establish the impact of government early years' policies and programmes on children's strengths and vulnerabilities at local and national level.
Schooling, Inequality, and the Impact of Government.
Generating an evidence base: Together with partners, UNICEF supports the Transfer Project, a research initiative that examines the impact of government-sponsored social cash transfer programmes in more than 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Overall, the report finds the impact of the government's cuts programme has been regressive, with the bottom 20% in society making a bigger contribution than all but the top 20%.
Savage cuts to social benefits have shredded the welfare "safety net" and left many disabled families in a "struggle for survival", according to a detailed study of the impact of the government's austerity programme.
Implementing such an intervention as part of a government programme for example, could have a negative impact on the performance of an already overstretched workforce.
An official evaluation of a government programme to tackle serious youth violence from 2008 to 2010 found that the tactic had no measurable impact.
