There were few structural and procedural incentives to support the research, practice and capacity building paradigm that the program attempted to promote.
This meant that some of the most technically meritorious proposals were not recommended for funding by peer review committees because they did not place sufficient focus on research use, action, practice and capacity building.
The primary reason was that the program itself as a funding initiative supported by two research agencies and anchored in the research domain found it difficult to move from the research realm to the three pronged approach of research, practice and capacity building.
For the last three year, efforts have been put to introduce the concept of development paediatrics through exposure of the key decision makers to the best internal practices and capacity building.
The objective of this study was to assess the supply of physicians in Lebanon in 1998, with an assessment of their practice patterns and capacity building.
However, we also found that over the course of maturation and scaling-up, the maintenance and training of their community volunteers has been slowly eroded by a lack of alignment between the mission of the Southern partner and those of their Northern partners on the practice of grassroots capacity building.
It is the organizational actors on the ground that are poised to identify, evaluate and disseminate the best practices that emerge in the practice of country-owned capacity building.
This framework was developed to guide effective capacity building practice within health promotion and contains five domains (Partnerships, Leadership, Resource Allocation, Workforce Development and Organisational Development) [ 4].
As Ian Manners has argued, the EU would be a normative power in the sense that it repeatedly attempts to "shape conceptions of the normal" through practices of "diffusion" of its best practices and its effort of capacity building in third countries (Manner, 2002).
Conversely, the risk of creating a series of singular, task focused FFS items may be that nursing activity is constrained by a focus on revenue generation and the large proportion of 'unfunded' nursing activity which currently underpins resilience and capacity building for practices, and job satisfaction for nurses, is lost as an opportunity cost.
