According to UNICEF Sierra Leone Chief of Child Protection Maud Droogleever Fortuyn, this means ensuring that adequate laws, policies and regulations are in place, and helping to build the capacity of the ministry, local council staff and social workers.
Literature on health reforms also emphasizes strengthening the capacity of the ministry of health at the central and district levels and improvement of supervision and administrative leadership [ 2- 7].
"Fast economic development is leading to increasing conflicts with the capacity of the environment to absorb" demands, the ministry said in a statement late last month.
Rattan Lal, a professor at the Ohio State University who has advised the French agricultural ministry, has long written about the capacity of the planet to take CO2 out of the atmosphere and store it in the soil.
While studies exist considering the capacity of ministries of health and independent entities (Briatte 2010; Greer 2010; Bennett et al. 2012b), work has only recently begun to explore the HPSR+A capacity of universities, typically within regional networks such as ASPHA Association of Schools of Public Healthh in Africa).
Minister Ruzic added that numerous preschool institutions expanded their capacities through the Budget Fund of the Ministry and that electronic services have been made in order to simplify the enrollment of children in kindergartens.
The question then becomes are the capacities of African ministries of health being developed quickly enough?
That's why building the capacity of us people here at the ministry is the most important starting point.
This was compounded by the limited leadership capacity of the lead ministry to coordinate stakeholders and activities, to maximise the potential of such partnerships and to bring other ministries to the table to tackle the issue.
In Uganda, the Capacity Project and ministry of health have spent several years building up a human resource information system in Uganda.
The United Nations must have a stronger role in overseeing the increasing capacity of Afghan ministries and their anti-corruption efforts.
