With a menu of options listed on the screen by time and channel, programme selection becomes a doddle.
Programme selection becomes easier, with a menu of channel options displayed on the screen like the index of track titles on a CD.
Damian Platt, researcher, activist and author, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Create well-targeted programmes: If the goal is to reduce homicides, then programme selection should be located in hotspot areas and focused on the population group most likely to commit violence crimes, often young males between 10-29 years old.
Among the most fundamental of all the values underpinning the NGO sector is a broad commitment to development as a process centred on the needs of beneficiary communities and involving them as partners in programme selection, design and implementation [38].
With the exception of educational level (programme selection criteria required sakhis to have completed 10 years), these data were representative of the female slum population.
Faculty at MakCHS and Uganda Martyrs Hospital serve on a programme implementation committee (PIC), which coordinates communication among MEPI trainees and faculty, day-to-day running of the programme, selection of trainees and implementation of research surveys.
Given the highly competitive context of health professional programme selection, it is also recommended that universities provide more flexible and inclusive selection and admission policies for students from underserved populations [ 1, 10].
The sample organisations in each country were selected in consultation with the country advisory boards, and on the basis of the same programme selection criteria used previously as well as a guideline to include organisations from across each country as well as organisations working in the same region/province where the primary research had been done.
Approaches that could enhance the performance of these programmes include selection based on phenotype-derived estimated breeding values (EBVs) [ 9– 11] and/or marker-assisted or genomic selection [ 12, 13], where specific markers associated with the disease or genome-wide markers, respectively, are incorporated into breeding values.
