REACH Meets Business: Lessons Learned in REACH Impact Assessments

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Jostmann ◽  
Lothar Kistenbruegger
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
Strategic Partnerships ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Legislative Proposal ◽  
The Impact

AbstractImpact assessments and strategic partnerships for testing a legislative proposal under real life conditions are very important elements in the legislative process to support the initiative of the European institutions for "better law making". Identifying the mechanisms and the impact of a new legislative act on those parties directly affected by it should not only be used as facile justification "ex post" but as a tool to check the workability and effectiveness of the proposed legal text. Timing and composition of the working group managing the project are crucial success factors to achieve better understanding of the applicability and the potential effects on social, ecological and economical aspects. A firm commitment of all involved parties is essential to avoid seriously conflictive discussions and controversial communication to the public which basically undermines the good work commenced on common ground. However, transparency in the entire process does not guarantee a common interpretation of the final results.

scholarly journals Changes in the Soundscape of the Public Space Close to a Highway by a Noise Control Intervention

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 5284
Author(s):  
Timothy Van Renterghem ◽  
Francesco Aletta ◽  
Dick Botteldooren
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Noise Abatement ◽  
Acoustic Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Control Intervention ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Noise Shielding ◽  
Visual Preferences ◽  
The Impact

The deployment of measures to mitigate sound during propagation outdoors is most often a compromise between the acoustic design, practical limitations, and visual preferences regarding the landscape. The current study of a raised berm next to a highway shows a number of common issues like the impact of the limited length of the noise shielding device, initially non-dominant sounds becoming noticeable, local drops in efficiency when the barrier is not fully continuous, and overall limited abatement efficiencies. Detailed assessments of both the objective and subjective effect of the intervention, both before and after the intervention was deployed, using the same methodology, showed that especially the more noise sensitive persons benefit from the noise abatement. Reducing the highest exposure levels did not result anymore in a different perception compared to more noise insensitive persons. People do react to spatial variation in exposure and abatement efficiency. Although level reductions might not be excessive in many real-life complex multi-source situations, they do improve the perception of the acoustic environment in the public space.

scholarly journals Times of change in complex environments - Evaluating hospital co-payments in Palestine refugee camps

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
S V Valente de Almeida ◽  
H Ghattas ◽  
G Paolucci ◽  
A Seita
Keyword(s):  
Length Of Stay ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Average Length ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Policy Impact ◽  
Average Length Of Stay ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
The Impact

Abstract We measure the impact introducing a of 10% co-payment component on hospitalisation costs for Palestine refugees from Lebanon in public and private hospitals. This ex-post analysis provides a detailed insight on the direction and magnitude of the policy impact in terms of demand and supply for healthcare. The data was collected by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and include episode level information from all public, private and Red Crescent Hospitals in Lebanon, between April 2016 and October 2017. This is a complete population episode level dataset with information from before and after the policy change. We use multinomial logit, negative binomial and linear models to estimate the policy impact on demand by type of hospital, average length of stay and treatment costs for the patient and the provider. After the new policy was implemented patients were 18% more likely to choose a (free-of-charge) PRCS hospital for secondary care, instead of a Private or Public hospital, where the co-payment was introduced. This impact was stronger for episodes with longer stays, which are also the more severe and more expensive cases. Average length of stay decreased in general for all hospitals and we could not find a statistically significant impact on costs for the provider nor the patient. We find evidence that the introduction of co-payments is hospital costs led to a shift in demand, but it is not clear to what extent the hospitals receiving this demand shift were prepared for having more patients than before, also because these are typically of less quality then the others. Regarding costs, there is no evidence that the provider managed to contain costs with the new policy, as the demand adapted to the changes. Our findings provide important information on hospitalisation expenses and the consequences of a policy change from a lessons learned perspective that should be taken into account for future policy decision making. Key messages We show that in a context of poverty, the introduction of payment for specific hospital types can be efficient for shifting demand, but has doubtable impact on costs containment for the provider. The co-payment policy can have a negative impact on patients' health since after its implementation demand increased at free-of-charge hospitals, which typically have less resources to treat patients.

Mumtaz Bibi's broken heart

2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohit De
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Traditional Practitioners ◽  
Women In India

This article investigates the formation of a political consensus between conservative ulama, Muslim reformers, nationalist politicians and women's organisations, which led to the enactment of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act in 1939. The Act was a radical piece of social legislation that gave South Asian Muslim women greater rights for divorce than those enjoyed by other women in India and Britain. Instead of placing women's rights and Islamic law as opposed to each other, the legislation employed a heuristic that guaranteed women's rights by applying Islamic law, allowing Muslim politicians, ulama and women's groups to find common ground on an Islamic modernity. By interrogating the legislative process and the rhetorical positions employed to achieve this consensus, the paper hopes to map how the women's question was being negotiated anew in the space created in the legislatures. The legislative debate over family law redefined the boundaries of the public and the private, and forced nationalists to reconsider the ‘women's question’. The transformation of Islamic law through secular legislation also gave greater licence to the courts in their interpretation, and widened the schism between traditional practitioners of fiqh and modern lawyers.

The Turning Point

2019 ◽  
pp. 301-352
Author(s):  
Steven K. Green
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Public Support ◽  
The Public ◽  
Education Legislation ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines the various events that undermined the public support for church–state separation in the 1960s. It considers the impact of Vatican II, of ecumenism, of the civil rights movement, and of federal social welfare and education legislation on Protestant attitudes. All of these events encouraged Protestants and Catholics to find common ground in working for the greater societal good. These events also suggested a model of church-state cooperation rather than one of separation. The chapter then segues to consider the various church–state cases before the Supreme Court between 1968 and 1975 in which the justices began to step back from applying a strict separationist approach to church–state controversies.

scholarly journals Street Network Resilience Put to the Test: The Dramatic Crash of Genoa and Bologna Bridges

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 4706 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerio Cutini ◽  
Camilla Pezzica
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Design Decision ◽  
Network Resilience ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Street Network ◽  
The Public ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Urban Futures

Various hazards and endemic threats are increasingly looming over cities, leading planners to rely on a rich toolbox of flexible and inclusive planning instruments and methods, capable of dealing with unpredicted events or sudden urban contingencies, when seeking sustainable urban futures. While sustainability-oriented innovative planning approaches are gaining momentum, ways to embed connected concepts in operational planning and design decision support systems have yet to be fully developed and validated. This paper tackles this issue by proposing and testing, in a real-life scenario, a method for the computational analysis of street network resilience, based on Space Syntax theory. The method is suitable to quantify the capacity of urban grids to absorb sudden disturbances and adapt to change, and to offer support for mitigation decisions and their communication to the public. It presents a set of configurational resilience indices, whose reliability is qualitatively assessed considering the ex-ante and ex-post urban configurations generated by two exceptional and dramatic bridge crashes. These events occurred almost simultaneously in two Italian cities with peculiarly similar characteristics. The results confirm the value of the proposal and highlight urban form, and particularly its grid, as a key driver in building urban resilience, together with the self-organisation capacity of local communities.

The impact of cultural similarities and differences on performance in strategic partnerships: An integrative perspective

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavriel Meirovich
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Cultural Distance ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Strategic Partnerships ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Practical Implications

AbstractThis theoretical research endeavors to find common ground in the ostensibly inconsistent results of studies on the impact of cultural similarities and differences on strategic partnerships. Some findings suggested that partners have to possess similar cultural characteristics in order to achieve success while others showed that cultural distance had a positive effect on efficiency and the competitiveness of partnerships. This paper systematically analyzes the equivocal evidence of influence of both commonalities and differences on partnerships' outcomes, highlighting conditions under which they can be either beneficial or dysfunctional. Several propositions are formulated in regard to the role of qualitative and quantitative differences in both organizational and national cultures. Further, the theoretical and practical implications are also discussed.

scholarly journals “Rules of engagement”

2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 551-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolai Mouraviev ◽  
Nada K. Kakabadse
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Investors ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate to what extent one can apply experiential learning theory (ELT) to the public-private partnership (PPP) setting in Russia and to draw insights regarding the learning cycle ' s nature. Additionally, the paper assesses whether the PPP case confirms Kolb ' s ELT. Design/methodology/approach – The case study draws upon primary data which the authors collected by interviewing informants including a PPP operator ' s managers, lawyers from Russian law firms and an expert from the National PPP Centre. The authors accomplished data source triangulation in order to ensure a high degree of research validity. Findings – Experiential learning has resulted in a successful and a relatively fast PPP project launch without the concessionary framework. The lessons learned include the need for effective stakeholder engagement; avoiding being stuck in bureaucracy such as collaboration with Federal Ministries and anti-trust agency; avoiding application for government funding as the approval process is tangled and lengthy; attracting strategic private investors; shaping positive public perception of a PPP project; and making continuous efforts in order to effectively mitigate the public acceptance risk. Originality/value – The paper contributes to ELT by incorporating the impact of social environment in the learning model. Additionally, the paper tests the applicability of ELT to learning in the complex organisational setting, i.e., a PPP.

Space in common: Socially engaged art in the Athens of crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charis Kanellopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Socially Engaged Art ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Impact

During the last years ‐ within a constantly deepening social, political and economic crisis ‐ Athens’s public space appears challenging, presenting a character of ongoing re-evaluation and change. It is due to the impact of the crisis, for example, that the city’s public space is being approached once more by many citizens who, during the years before the recession, had chosen to transfer main activities and functions of public life to the more protected sphere of privateness. One notices the return to open spaces by locals not only for leisure but also for social interaction. Most emphatically, however, appears the fact of a rising number of population in need, such as homeless people, immigrants or refugees, who host aspects of their private life in the public sphere: most of the times, they are not only users, but rather habitants of public space, in a transitional situation of social suspension, lacking a sense of belonging. Under the light of the city’s different realities, and of an expected social co-existence, the article aims to present the practice of artists who become active in Athens’s public spaces of social ambivalence in Athens, by realizing socially engaged art projects. By focusing on case studies such as Nomadic Architecture Network’s projects, the Victoria Square Project by Rick Lowe and Maria Papadimitriou, Common Platforms, a Blind Date by Adonis Volanakis, along with Rafika Chawishe, or the UrbanDig_Omonia by the UrbanDig Project in Omonia square, among others, the article highlights the artists’ interest in understanding the historical and cultural dynamics of each area and in working with different participants of the community in an effort to find common ground and to create bonds among individuals of unalike backgrounds. The article shows how such artistic practices become a channel of creative expression and fruitful dialogue in environments of precariousness and intolerance. Showing the importance of cooperation and understanding, socially engaged art projects function positively as collaborative ‘heterotopias’ in turbulent times for Athens.

The Mental Healthiness and Aging Initiative: Lessons from a Social Marketing-Informed Research Campaign in Kentucky

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina M. Kruger ◽  
Deborah Murray ◽  
Faika Zanjani
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Marketing ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Train The Trainer ◽  
Communication Campaign ◽  
Full Color ◽  
Social Advertising ◽  
The Impact

The Mental Healthiness and Aging Initiative (MHAI) was a multifaceted social marketing-informed communication campaign designed to promote community awareness of mental health and aging. We hypothesized that MHAI would extend communication channels, providing a network for rapidly diffusing innovative mental health messages in Kentucky. Key messages discovered during formative research were incorporated into a communication campaign, which included a train-the-trainer curriculum, “Real Life Stories,” social advertising on radio and television, and a 12-month full-color calendar. We evaluated the impact of the train-the-trainer curriculum on the level of mental health and aging knowledge of Family and Consumer Science Agents in the Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service, who later diffused the campaign in local communities. Posttest scores showed a significant improvement ( p = .005) in objective knowledge about mental health and aging. Two months after diffusion of MHAI, a random telephone survey of 744 Kentucky residents found that respondents from the full-intervention counties more frequently reported feeling able to assist older adults with a potential mental illness ( p = .047) compared to residents in either partial intervention counties (social advertising only) or control counties (no contact). Lessons learned through the MHAI project can be applied by community mental health advocates to improve mental health outcomes.

The impact of cultural similarities and differences on performance in strategic partnerships: An integrative perspective

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavriel Meirovich
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Cultural Distance ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Strategic Partnerships ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Practical Implications

AbstractThis theoretical research endeavors to find common ground in the ostensibly inconsistent results of studies on the impact of cultural similarities and differences on strategic partnerships. Some findings suggested that partners have to possess similar cultural characteristics in order to achieve success while others showed that cultural distance had a positive effect on efficiency and the competitiveness of partnerships. This paper systematically analyzes the equivocal evidence of influence of both commonalities and differences on partnerships' outcomes, highlighting conditions under which they can be either beneficial or dysfunctional. Several propositions are formulated in regard to the role of qualitative and quantitative differences in both organizational and national cultures. Further, the theoretical and practical implications are also discussed.

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