It suggests that other districts could have done more to promote the programme, but with widespread confusion among implementers they themselves may have lacked the confidence to take the initiative themselves.
By deepening their commitment to AI and focusing on revenue-generating applications over cost savings, these early implementers are positioning themselves to reap the benefits of AI at scale.
Yet, as this article shows, even successful programs can expect to achieve only incremental gains in promoting the rule of law because advances largely depend on alignment with the priorities of powerful state and non-state actors, donors, program implementers, and paralegals themselves.
Accordingly, while we are interested in whether a particular intervention is successful, we encourage authors many of whom are program implementers on the ground themselves— to provide a high level of detail on how activities were actually conducted the kind of implementation detail most other journals tend to shy away from.
This may occur if policy makers and implementers are active CoPKM members themselves, or they consider CoPKM members and/or their knowledge products as trustworthy, or if members (e.g., researchers, consultants), empowered by their enhanced knowledge or expert identity, contribute more effectively to the national policy process.
The staff saw themselves as the true implementers of the programme, while the CEOs were perceived to be best placed to offer assistance in the form of organisation-wide messages (statements of importance of the programme), recognition, direction and trouble shooting.
Ray Kelly and Bill Bratton have shown themselves to be very capable implementers and I have little doubt Bratton will be effective for Mayor de Blasio.
However, the determination and commitment of the implementers ensured overall timeliness of implementation.
Implementers and researchers should consult all stakeholders, including CHWs themselves, to develop M&E and supervision models that are feasible and appropriate for the tasks CHWs are asked to undertake.
