Consensual contracts needed nothing except verbal or written agreement between the parties, and though there were only four such contracts known to the law, they were the most important in ordinary life sale, hire of things or services, partnership, and mandate (acting upon instructions).
The SGC is a public-private partnership whose mandate is to promote the development of new medicines by carrying out basic science of relevance to drug discovery and placing all information, reagents and know-how into the public domain without restriction.
Teacher Retirement System's new mandates, called "partnerships" by all involved, are a result of years of conversations and deliberations.
North-South Partnership (NSP) is the mandated blueprint for much global health action.
We suggest that when contemplating the use of vague mandates in terms of partnership composition and governance arrangements to speed up implementation, policy-makers need to take into account the likely variation between partnerships that will arise.
It has been instrumental in setting up the CEO water mandate, a public-private partnership to help companies develop, implement and disclose water sustainability policies and practices, as well as the beverage industry environmental roundtable and the global water challenge.
Over the past 12 months, the SSO has forged a strategic partnership with ACOS/OG to help reach mandated patient accrual targets needed to successfully renew National Cancer Institute (NCI) funding.
It also highlights the value that such partnership arrangements bring in facilitating the mission and mandates of ministries of health, international agencies with global health mandates, and the non-profit private sector.
"Recognizing the growing national demand for a robust pipeline of homeland security and defense professionals," according to an internal report, CHDS launched the University and Agency Partnership Initiative in 2004 to execute that mandate.
There was a general consensus among HIECs that the vagueness of the mandate in terms of the partnership composition and governance arrangements positively influenced implementation because it allowed partners to shape HIECs to fit their local needs and circumstances.
