In Uganda, the Health Policy Analysis Committee (Additional file 1: Panel 2) has progressively played a prominent coordinating role while in the case of Cameroon a technical secretariat was established to steer and pilot the implementation of the health sector strategy with less responsibility.
The first phase has been the implementation of the formal-sector programme, which began four and half years ago.
Although external partners are involved in the coordination process, it is the government which is ultimately held accountable for failure or success in the implementation of the annual health sector action plans.
The policy review includes assessing the implementation of the key plan for the sector, the National Integrated Plan for Early Childhood Development for 2005 2010, as well as developing feasible options to expand quality services to the poorest communities in the shortest possible time.
Only external funds under the direct control of the MoH were considered as external funds available to finance the HRDP (also known as 'funds for the implementation of the second national health sector development plan').
There should also, he says, be someone to oversee that stuff actually happens: There should be clear leadership for driving the implementation of the National Data Strategy throughout the public sector.
Author: UNICEF, FGN-EU Background: The European Commission (EC) and the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) agreed in December 2004 to support the implementation of the "Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Reform Programme" (WSSSRP).
The potential use of solar furnaces for industrial applications has been an attractive idea in the last years due to their high flux density and the accurate control which satisfies the productive industry requirements and facilitates the implementation of the solar technology within the industrial sector.
In the US nursing home sector, the implementation of the Minimum Data Set has been linked to improvements in quality of care [ 1- 4].
Thus health worker migration matters because human resources are fundamental to the delivery of health services, and explicit human resource policies are crucial for the implementation of health sector reforms in low and middle income countries, and for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals[4].
