In order to develop such coordinated programmes, the establishment of a capacity-building forum involving the space community, the development sector and the developing countries in a region, is proposed.
10 The NVAC recommendations include national leadership to establish an adult immunisation programme to parallel the existing US childhood immunisation programme, provision of appropriate financial and infrastructure resources to carry out the strategic plan of the newly created adult immunisation programme and establishment of a national strategic plan for adult immunisation.
We attribute this to the decentralised approach taken to allow service providers to integrate POCT into their pre-existing community-programmes. Establishment of the POCT steering committee and involvement of health-care commissioners in management decisions was critical to the successful scale up.
The overall goal of the programme is meant to be achieved through three outcome areas: improved health and nutritional status of under-five children and pregnant and lactating women; school feeding programme; and establishment of a food security and nutrition surveillance system.
Government ensured establishment of sound programme governance structure at national, local and facility levels, though demonstrated weaknesses in monitoring and evaluation of program implementation progress.
The initial phase included expanding those countries' participation in relevant existing NATO training and education programmes, and the establishment of a Middle East faculty at the NATO Defense College in Rome.
The Government of Nepal is promoting institutional delivery through different incentive programmes and the establishment of birthing centres.
The short-term goals of the health-care reform comprise five key programmes: expedite the establishment of a basic medical security system, initiate a national basic drugs system, improve the primary health-care service system, promote the gradual equalization of basic public health services, and implement a pilot programme of public hospital reform.
A description of the programme towards the establishment of the test facilities and the planned activities is also reported.
Central to the aim of the Environmental Genomics programme is the establishment of a community of researchers, both empiricists and theoreticians, who are proficient in the development and application of postgenome technologies to the study of organism and ecosystem function.
