After analysis of several types of information systems in several countries of the South, Heeks recommended reducing the gap between concept and reality by applying what he called "local improvisation" and that we could translate as contextualization and implementation of the principle of reality.
Our study highlights the need for the global temperature targets to be urgently translated into the design and implementation of adaptation projects.
In this article we intend to elucidate this link by looking at how the emerging intercultural policy paradigm, explicitly adopted by the city of Turin in the mid 2000s, has been concretely translated into policy actions and implementation practices since 2007.
Today in Uganda, several challenges must be addressed to ensure that the relatively new surge in local NCD-related research and a rich environment of cross-sector collaborations translate into effective policy and implementation.
Amadeus volunteers are also working to assist with the NGO's São Paulo operations and are providing assistance with business planning and implementation strategies, are translating press materials into Spanish on a weekly basis for publication, and are finalizing a comprehensive evaluation of Saúde Criança's marketing strategies and online donations systems.
A number of dissemination and implementation strategies for translating the Magpie Trial findings were suggested.
Therefore, new ways of linking science and practice need to be developed to effectively translate scientific findings into sustainability solutions and implementation in practice.
Strategies for changing general practitioner's (GPs) behaviour by dissemination and implementation of guidelines and translating evidence into practice are notoriously difficult areas [ 5- 7].
The need to focus on both dissemination, defined here as the process of ensuring the adoption of treatments, and implementation, the process of translating these treatments into routine and persisting clinical practice, is further supported by evidence suggesting that even when patients do receive empirically supported treatments 1, they are not always well delivered [ 3].
All underscored the imperative that knowledge be translated into evidence that can guide policy and implementation.
Frenk and Chen observe that the participants 'underscored the imperative that knowledge be translated into evidence that can guide policy and implementation.' [ 14].
