It explores the operationalization of a national strategy at district level by elucidating a normative model district resource plan which details the resources and costs of providing an essential health services package at district level.
Costing database A national-level assessment conducted in 2012 studied the required type, amount, and costs of medicines and health supplies for operationalization of the new national health plan (PNDS) [ 11 ].
The project will work closely with SADC to finalize the regional policy and to develop, review and support to the operationalization of regional and national COMPACTs; and in other areas to be identified.
The aim of this paper is to contribute to the discourse on safeguards by presenting REDD + Safeguard Spectrum, a framework which can be used to unpack the many faces of REDD + safeguards to guide their application and operationalization at national and local levels.
3 Consequently, the approach, its concept and choice of indicators are predominantly guided by data availability and practical operationalization and child poverty is defined as the proportion of children with equivalent incomes below the threshold of 50% of national median equivalent income (Corak 2006b).
While WHO focuses on the presence of relevant strategies and guidelines largely at the national level, the Partnerships are a practical operationalization of the governance and leadership building block at the provincial, district, or lower levels, with an emphasis on how systems are governed and managed locally.
Clear definitions support the operationalization of concepts for rigorous empirical testing and internal management use.
For the purpose of the study, 'policy-maker' was defined as both a local and national-level decision-maker involved in the construction and operationalization of policy.
What makes empirical analysis in this field particularly demanding is that the data on migrants suffers from the fact that national authorities have only recently begun to make use of categories that mirror a meaningful operationalization of migration status (Jacobs et al., 2009).
The weak points are that we cannot make distinctions along ethnic and national group lines, and that we therefore have to make use of rather crude proxies for the operationalization of some of our independent variables.
