They are brilliant voluntary structures, but we want direct personal relationships with their members".
Peer-review groups (voluntary structures focused on continuous professional development) were present only in Poland, although minority of family physicians was involved.
Microfinance would also benefit from a voluntary regulatory structure to improve its access to capital, and greater use of technology to reduce transaction costs.
Rather than a voluntary agreement, a structure was negotiated based on existing International Labour Organization (ILO) compensation conventions.
Student participation in the enhanced arm was voluntary because its structure was new to the curriculum, would require additional student commitment beyond the traditional rotation, and its impact had not yet been assessed.
The final two stages of the change curve – sustaining the transition and setting new rules for the mainstream – are about maintaining the change that has been created, often through governance structures, voluntary commitments, new consumer standards or regulation.
Policy-makers can encourage voluntary reductions by structuring carbon markets in a way that allows parties to convert their GHG reductions into carbon credits that they can sell to regulated sources to offset their emissions.
To achieve that outcome, unprecedented collaboration will be needed among stakeholders within each region to develop and apply a range of conservation strategies that would include incentive-based voluntary programs, regulatory structures, legal frameworks, land use policies, and stable sources of funding.
Such findings have resulted in their use, on a precautionary basis, in structuring voluntary and compulsory breeding programmes intended to reduce the risk to consumers from the potential presence of BSE in sheep [ 9- 11].
They are: encouraging forces to negotiate local voluntary mergers, a regional structure of 10 police forces or a single national police service for England and Wales.
