In an effort to protect the environment upon which the village's tourist trade relies, Villars has embarked on a comprehensive programme of sustainability initiatives ranging from introducing a fleet of hybrid buses that ferry skiers about, to low-energy snow-making systems.
But the two giants of Europe can agree to disagree about the virtues of German-style budgetary rigour or French-style fiscal stimulus as long as they don't insult each other, and, more importantly, as long as they compensate for their philosophical differences with a well-publicised programme of joint initiatives on key subjects.
For instance construction '"accounts for only about 5%% of the employees in Britain [yet] it accounts for 27%% of fatal injuries to employees and 10%% of reported major injuries" with "39 fatal injuries to workers" in 2012 2013 (HSE 2014a), generating significant programmes of OSH initiatives, research, and guidance (e.g., HSE, 2003a, 2003b, 2014b)' (Pink et al. 2014a: 336).
The Guardian understands that the Home Office and the Foreign Office are about to embark on an expanded programme of strategic communications initiatives.
There's a terrifically imaginative programme of audience engagement initiatives too, such as A Play, A Pie and A Pint where you can watch a 45-minute play over lunch then talk to the writers and cast in the brilliant bar-cafe.
The Department for Transport has agreed to put £3.5m towards the £6.5m cost of a smaller programme of sustainable transport initiatives to complement the Box Road plan, the council said.
In Zambia, for example, we examined a large-scale rural sanitation programme, encompassing a number of initiatives, including community-based approaches to ending open defecation.
Experience from several fields suggests that research synthesis stimulates the demand for good quality reporting of initiatives, programmes and policies.
