In spite of policy guidelines at the international and national level, infant feeding counselling remains a major challenge and a controversial issue in pMTCT in Tanzania [ 2].
This implementation of central policy guidelines at the state level in Meghalaya, without enough evidence of local relevance could be seen as an example of a 'top down' approach to policy implementation ([ 44], p 128 47).
Country workshop teams proposed reviewing the existing organisational policies and guidelines at a central level and ensuring these were disseminated to all levels of the health system (Table 1/ Table S2, additional file 2).
Their experiences highlighted the importance of considering the differences between these organisations and of identifying relevant national and local policies and guidelines at an early stage.
In addition to these approaches, a few other broad policy guidelines are at least consistent with, and are perhaps suggested by, our findings.
Policy guidelines inform governments at all levels local, national, regional where investments have to be made to reduce vulnerabilities that are the real cause of disasters.
The service-provider related factors take into account of such issues as working environment, understandability and practicability of the policy guidelines, opportunities for at least short-term training on fANC issues, availability of funds for meeting essential supplies, to mention some.
The report also states that the European Parliament must be consulted when common foreign and security policy guidelines are devised at the beginning of each year.
Through its Office of Civil Rights, the Department of Education provided standard and detailed policy guidelines that were hailed at the time as a "call to action on sexual harassment".
Rigid policy guidelines, tight spending limits, and a lack of self-directed time limit their autonomy.
