Yet, HIA does not expose all the human rights impacts of a project, programme or policy; that is not its aim.
Funding to pay the Open Access publication charges for this article was provided by a 'European Regional Development Fund' within the frame of an International PhD Project Programme MPD4-504.
This work was supported by a 'European Regional Development Fund' within the frame of an International PhD Project Programme MPD4-504, the Polish Ministry of Science, a Higher Education Grant N401 041032/1002 to K.B., and N301 654140 to M.Z., the Research Council of the KU Leuven OTT 09/022).
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/10/90/prepub wouldulikeike to acknowledge the National Institute for Health Research (RP-PG-0108-10049) fundingding this research as part of a four project programme grant.
Using the prior plan as a direction, the project managing director can be more effective in effortlessly creating a more virtual, more visible project programme.
He insisted this was more than a fuzzy feelgood move, and that the initiative would be propelled by "plans, projects, programmes [and] indices".
The kind of administrative unit fit for engaging with the developing countries of the future is unlikely to be a large aid ministry with its own portfolio of projects, programmes and spending.
In this paper we review the case for interdisciplinary research and call for renewed and deliberate efforts to build capacity for interdisciplinary working within research projects, programmes and institutions.
Health impact assessment (HIA), a methodology that aims to facilitate the mitigation of negative and enhancement of positive health effects due to projects, programmes and policies, has been developed over the past 20 30 years.
Where projects, programmes and policies have made a difference, they have done so because they recognised the power of relationships, the significance of recognition and the importance of confronting limiting stereotypes and institutionalising new norms.
