Mr Monti replaced Mr Berlusconi as prime minister just over a year ago, and launched a programme of reforms aimed at pulling Italy out of economic crisis.
Small businesses in Cuba began to spring up about a year ago, after the government launched a programme of free market reforms aimed at kick-starting the island's socialist economy.
It also launched a programme of quantitative easing.
In 2005 China's leadership launched a programme to build what it called a "new socialist countryside".
In 2008 the country launched a programme, "Thousand Talents", to entice more of them back.
On April 8th, the interim administration launched a programme to get rid of the poppies in bloom.
Having conquered America, it reached Europe's shores in 1957 when INSEAD, a French school, launched a programme.
The Ministry of Health recently launched a programme to prevent and control cervical cancer, encouraging women to undergo smear tests.
And a few years ago, the government launched a programme to make Ajmer a "slum-free city".
The C of E has launched a programme of evangelism in an attempt to stem the decline.
At the beginning of 2013, the Foreign Office launched a programme to identify potential global leaders of the future.
