Development and dissemination of the national strategic action plan for reducing inappropriate polypharmacy in older Australians

World has been observing 5th December since 2012 as the World Soil Day to ensure maintenance of soil health, This was complimented by the United Nations’ General Assembly declaring 2015, as the International Year of Soils to create awareness among all stakeholders and promote more sustainable use of soil being the critical resource. On this occasion, UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon had said that without healthy soils life on Earth would be unsustainable. Indeed, soils are the foundation of agriculture. He had urged all Governments to pledge to do more to protect this important yet forgotten resource. A healthy life is not possible without healthy soils. According to the Director General of the FAO, Jose Graziano da Silva, today, world has more than 805 million people facing hunger and malnutrition. Soils are under increased pressure because population growth will require an approximately increase of 60 per cent in food output and competing land uses.Unfortunately, 33 per cent of our global soil resources are under degradation and human pressures on soils are reaching critical limits, reducing and sometimes eliminating essential soil functions. He had emphasised the role of all stakeholders in promoting the cause of soils as it is important for paving the road towards a real sustainable development for all and by all. Against this background, this article briefly highlights the significance and aspects of soil health management in India and suggests aspects of strategic action plan to conserve this precious resource for the benefit of mankind.

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CAREC Integrated Trade Agenda 2030 and Rolling Strategic Action Plan 2018�2020:

10.22617/tcs190019-2 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Action Plan ◽

Strategic Action ◽

Agenda 2030

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Prioritizing and Positioning of Thailand‟s Program of OTOP Product for Elderly using AHP

International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology - Regular Issue ◽

10.35940/ijeat.a9669.109119 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 2110-2116

Keyword(s):

Process Development ◽

Action Plan ◽

The Elderly ◽

Strategic Action ◽

Expert Interview ◽

Consumer Segment ◽

Program Policy ◽

Market Opportunities ◽

Product And Process ◽

The Government

One Tambon One Product (OTOP) is one of the major enabler of Thailand to stimulus local entrepreneurship to support locally made products of Thailand's 7,255 Tambons (sub-district). This OTOP program has been initiated since 2001 and has substantially generate incomes for local entreprenuers. Currently, five groups of OTOP product have been promoted and used by Thai Government to gaurantee the quality of the OTOP product. However this research aims to utilize the nexus model of academia–policy maker and business to develop an approach to derive the product improvement policy to increase business market opportunities for the elderly cosumers in Thailand. This research studies and identified differences of needs among each group of product. This research conducted large systematic focus groups on 1,275 elderly consumer together with expert interview and quantitative analysis to identify the top three groups of OTOP product that need to be strategically emphasized. Four new criterions of Business, Opportunity, Self- Sustainability, and Environment were developed and used as criteria to identify and prioritize the needs of those five OTOP groups. The AHP technique was employed to identify the weights and compare the five major groups with respect to those developed criteria. This results were used for the government to position the OTOP product that meet the need of elderly consumer segment. The results of the analysis lead to strategic action plan for product and process development of northern Thailand OTOP developemt program. This proposed concept helps Thai govenrment to effectively exercise OTOP program policy mobility and evolution.

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Obstacles to Implementing the Strategic Action Plan in the Light of Performance Evaluation at College of Education in Jeddah University

World Journal of Education ◽

10.5430/wje.v9n2p73 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 73

Author(s):

Mona A. Alfadli

Keyword(s):

Performance Evaluation ◽

Social Responsibility ◽

Action Plan ◽

College Of Education ◽

Strategic Action ◽

Graduate Studies ◽

Post Graduate ◽

Investment Return ◽

Achievement Rate ◽

The Social

The present study aims to investigate the obstacles to implementing the strategic action plan in the light ofperformance evaluation at the College of Education, Jeddah University. The author adopted the descriptive analyticalapproach. The population comprised all forms and documents relevant to the domains, namely learning andeducation, post-graduate studies, social responsibility, and funding. The results showed that the achievement rate ofthe domains was 40%, 18%, 0.04%, and 73%, respectively. The obstacles to learning and education related toawareness of the course and its design, difficulty of students’ interaction, and form filling objectively. The obstaclesto post-graduate studies domain were relevant to publishing in reviewed and standardized journals due to JeddahUniversity, lack of action handbook for mission and, post-graduate studies based on mission regulation of the SaudiUniversities. The obstacles to social responsibility were relevant to funding in terms of allocating a budget foractivating the social responsibility projects and upgrading the college’s infrastructure. The obstacles to funding andinvestment were based on the needs of civil society associations to launch new programs that meet their needs andprovide the College of Education with investment return.

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New Technologies, New Challenges for Human Rights? The Work of the Council of Europe

European Journal of Health Law ◽

10.1163/15718093-bja10007 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 335-344

Author(s):

Laurence Lwoff

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Human Health ◽

New Technologies ◽

Action Plan ◽

Human Beings ◽

Council Of Europe ◽

Strategic Action ◽

Protective Mechanisms ◽

Protection Of Human Rights ◽

Fit For Purpose

Abstract Convergence of emerging technologies (e.g. biotechnologies, information and cognitive technologies) has opened new perspectives for progress with regard to human health. However, these technologies also open new possibilities for interventions on human beings, which may be more invasive, and possibly affect and modify individuals. Established practices in the field of biomedicine are also evolving in a way that exerts pressure on existing protective mechanisms. Thus, consideration is required as to whether existing human rights provisions are still fit for purpose or whether there is a need to re-examine, clarify or re-enforce them or even a need to identify new human rights and protective measures. This article gives an overview of the main issues considered by the Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe to develop a Strategic Action Plan aimed at ensuring appropriate protection of human rights in the developments in biomedicine, promoting thereby progress for human health.

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Assessing Adequacy of Leisure and Recreation Facilities in KFUPM Campus

International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management ◽

10.4018/jabim.2011010105 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 58-78

Author(s):

Adel S. Aldosary ◽

Kh. Md. Nahiduzzaman

Keyword(s):

Human Resource Development ◽

Development Process ◽

Gap Analysis ◽

Action Plan ◽

Community Members ◽

Strategic Action ◽

Strategic Plans ◽

Recreation Facilities ◽

Leisure And Recreation ◽

Urgency Level

Leisure and recreation facilities are strongly intertwined due to their mutual dependencies. Thus, they build up invisible networks. Leisure and recreation facilities are one of the imperative components for socio-cultural, psychological, and economic development. In the spectrum of sustainable development, it is not possible to initiate development process without strategically planning for leisure and recreation activities. KFUPM was developed with specific leisure and recreation facilities for its community members. This paper examines their adequacy and possible set of actions to minimize the inadequacies in relation to growing and changing needs of the diversified-culture based community. Preparation of a proposed alterative (strategic) action plan to improve leisure and recreation facilities is based on conducting an internal assessment of current and forecasting amenities, and the need-gap analysis. The proposed action plan covers the estimated cost and urgency level for each of the alternative leisure and recreation improvement options. KFUPM must be committed to embracing the vision and strategies presented by this study, and allocate resources to implement strategic plans for improving leisure and recreation facilities that foster productivity and help shape systems for human resource development.

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