scholarly journals Albanian National Action Plan for Roma Inclusion 2016–2020: A Study on the Program Achievements at the Halfway Mark

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402110361
Author(s):  
Gentian Qejvanaj
Keyword(s):  
Action Plan ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
National Action Plan ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Us ◽  
Implementation Period ◽  
Education And Employment

Roma segregation in Albania has been causing growing concern since the fall of the communist regime. In this study, we analyze the effectiveness of the Albanian national action plan for Roma inclusion 2016–2020, in 2018, halfway in its implementation period. We gathered data on education and employment from the pre-implementation period (2015) and compared it with the latest available data in 2018. Interviews with local experts and surveys by the Balkan Barometer will provide background information to assess the current state of Roma integration in Albania. Moreover, descriptive statistics from national and international institutions and structured interviews will draw an independent narrative of Roma affairs. In our conclusion, we suggest moving beyond the “us and them” approach with programs run on inertia; our findings highlight that although encouraging achievements have been reached under the 2016–2020 action plan, real inclusion is still far, as statistical achievements do not say much about the quality of the education or job training provided under the 2016–2020 action plan.

The “Open Government Reform” Movement

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne J. Piotrowski
Keyword(s):  
Action Plan ◽  
Administrative Reform ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Open Government ◽  
Government Reform ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
President Obama ◽  
National Action Plan ◽  
Administrative Reforms ◽  
The Us

Open government initiatives, which include not only transparency but also participation and collaboration policies, have become a major administrative reform. As such, these initiatives are gaining cohesiveness in literature. President Obama supported open government through a range of policies including the Open Government Partnership (OGP), a multinational initiative. The OGP requires member organizations to develop open government national action plans, which are used as the basis for my analysis. To frame this paper, I use and expand upon David Heald’s directions and varieties of transparency framework. A content analysis of the 62 commitments in the US Second Open Government National Action Plan was conducted. The analysis provides two findings of note: First, the traditional view of transparency was indeed the most prevalent in the policies proposed. In that respect, not much has changed, even with the OGP’s emphasis on a range of approaches. Second, openness among and between agencies played a larger than expected role. While the OGP pushed an array of administrative reforms, the initiative had limited impact on the type of policies that were proposed and enacted. In sum, the OGP is an administrative reform that was launched with great fanfare, but limited influence in the US context. More research needs to be conducted to determine if the “open government reform” movement as a whole suffers from such problems in implementation.

scholarly journals EVALUATION OF ISUP SUPPORTING SERVICE IN THE RADIO ELECTRONIC INDUSTRY SPHERE WITHIN THE REENGINEERING CYCLE START

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (3) ◽  
pp. 30-35
Author(s):  
Ольга Кондратьева ◽  
Olga Kondratyeva
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
State Assessment ◽  
Quality Of Services ◽  
Electronic Industry ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Radio Electronic ◽  
Current State ◽  
Conflict Situations

This article discusses methods of assessment of the trunk "Customers" for the ISUP re-engineering. We have used two tools: • Current state assessment of service quality using tree chart of indicators on four trunks: Customers, Process, Owners and the State. • Action plan development based on the Kobayashi PROF methodology. Evaluation of the trunk "Customers" (q1) is conducted in three branches: P1 - functionality, P2 - convenience, P3 - emotional background. Functionality is evaluated by type of work and sufficient level of Reliability, Responsibility, Availability and Sociability of each of them in relation to all applications. Convenience is estimated by means of survey of customers by means of questioning on the website by criteria (leaves): comfort, the interface, conflict situations, feedback, emergency situations and functionality Emotional background is assessed by analyzing changes in the emotional background of communication and is based on the content analysis of the text. All messages from the user are considered to be text. The proposed tree-like information model of structure construction of indicators makes it possible to assess the quality of services in the field of ISUP support at the enterprises of the radio-electronic industry.

Teachers’ experiences with immigrant children in Czech elementary schools

Human Affairs ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicja Leix ◽  
Klára Záleská
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Family Culture ◽  
Current State ◽  
Teachers Experiences ◽  
Teachers Attitudes

AbstractThe paper deals with Czech teachers’ experiences of teaching immigrant children in Czech schools at the primary and lower secondary level. Upon introducing the theoretical context the paper presents the results of empirical research based on semi-structured interviews with teachers. The survey demonstrates teachers’ attitudes to the current state of integration of immigrant children and the extent to which they are prepared for teaching this group of children. Teachers have a wide variety of opinion on different measures for improving the education of immigrants. Their attitudes towards immigrant children are largely influenced by the amount of previous experience with teaching immigrant children. An individualized teacher approach to immigrants plays an essential role in the successful integration of immigrant children in schools, as do the quality of interaction with immigrant parents, the similarity of the immigrant family culture to Czech culture and the range of measures designed to improve integration.

FDA at BIO 2011 – Weighing a hefty mission: Where is the balance?

1969 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Levy
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
The United States ◽  
Biotechnology Industry ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Current State ◽  
Industry Organization ◽  
The Us ◽  
Quality Of Food ◽  
Biotechnology Industry Organization

The mission of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is to promote public health by ensuring the safety and quality of food and medical products sold in the United States. At this year's annual Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) convention, significant discussion revolved around the appropriate interpretation and execution of that mission.The BIO meeting hosted 15 646 participants from across industry, government and the nonprofit sector, focusing on the current state of the biotechnology industry, as well as its challenges in seeking to further improve public welfare. Perhaps partly because this year's meeting was held in Washington, DC – the seat of the federal government and of BIO's headquarters – much attention was paid to the US regulatory environment. In particular, attendees debated the quandary faced every day by the FDA: how to enable access to novel therapies quickly, but only once their safety has been certified.

scholarly journals Current State of Regulatory Oversight of Biosimilars in India and Its Implications on the Quality of Drugs: A Comparative Assessment with EU and FDA Regulations

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Vikram Gota ◽  
◽  
Diana Varghese ◽  
Shayma Karbelkar ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Characteristics ◽  
Patient Access ◽  
Approval Process ◽  
Regulatory Oversight ◽  
Medical Needs ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Us ◽  
Improve Patient ◽  
Unmet Medical Needs

Biosimilars are biologic products that are highly similar to a licensed reference biologic, with no clinically meaningful differences in quality characteristics, biological activity, safety, or efficacy. Biosimilars can help to fulfill unmet medical needs due to their cost effectiveness while at the same time being as efficacious as the innovator drug. They can also improve patient access to otherwise costly innovator biologics. India has the largest number of approved biosimilars as compared to the US and Europe. However, the numbers of clinical studies that are conducted to prove the biosimilarity are lesser than the number of biosimilars approved, which is evident by the number of CTRI registrations done. Some studies have shown the quality of biosimilars approved and marketed in India to be inferior to the innovator drug. This raises concerns regarding the quality of the biosimilars. In this review, the similarities and differences in the guidelines, the approval process, and quality enforcement measures prevailing in the three regulatory regions of USA, Europe and India are discussed. Changes in the approval process and post approval monitoring of drugs and manufacturing facilities are recommended in order to ensure sustained quality standards of drugs entering the market.

A Unified Information Framework for Building A Common Vision in Sustainable City Development

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jialiang Yao ◽  
Terrence Fernando ◽  
Ian Everall
Keyword(s):  
City Development ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Current State ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
To Come ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
Sustainable Futures ◽  
Information Framework

Creating sustainable cities requires a stronger collaboration between a range of public and private sector organisations to ensure cities are safer, healthier, intelligent and prosperous places for citizens to experience an enhanced quality of life. Within this context, urban planning and regeneration projects play a major role where stakeholders need to come together to assess the current challenges or the opportunities within a city and implement projects that transform the physical, social and environmental dimensions to create prosperous and sustainable futures. Within these projects, stakeholders need to assess “social data intelligence” collected by individual agencies and also understand how proposed complex agendas such as transport, health, education and employment could lead to a better environment that can bring social, economical and environmental prosperity. This research proposes a novel Urban Information Framework that allows the stakeholders to integrate their datasets (both spatial and non-spatial) together to create a unified 3D virtual prototype of a city that can be used to represent both the current state of a city as well as intended futures. The proposed Urban Information Framework allows the stakeholders to combine different datasets together, whether they be social or physical transformation agendas, to understand the dependencies or to build up narratives that could be communicated visually to others. The overall framework has been developed and validated by working closely with two major regeneration projects in UK.

scholarly journals Antimicrobial Stewardship in General Practice: A Scoping Review of the Component Parts

Antibiotics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley Hawes ◽  
Kirsty Buising ◽  
Danielle Mazza
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
Health System ◽  
Antimicrobial Stewardship ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Antibiotic Prescribing ◽  
National Action Plan ◽  
The Public

There is no published health-system-wide framework to guide antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) in general practice. The aim of this scoping review was to identify the component parts necessary to inform a framework to guide AMS in general practice. Six databases and nine websites were searched. The sixteen papers included were those that reported on AMS in general practice in a country where antibiotics were available by prescription from a registered provider. Six multidimensional components were identified: 1. Governance, including a national action plan with accountability, prescriber accreditation, and practice level policies. 2. Education of general practitioners (GPs) and the public about AMS and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). 3. Consultation support, including decision support with patient information resources and prescribing guidelines. 4. Pharmacist and nurse involvement. 5. Monitoring of antibiotic prescribing and AMR with feedback to GPs. 6. Research into gaps in AMS and AMR evidence with translation into practice. This framework for AMS in general practice identifies health-system-wide components to support GPs to improve the quality of antibiotic prescribing. It may assist in the development and evaluation of AMS interventions in general practice. It also provides a guide to components for inclusion in reports on AMS interventions.

scholarly journals Formation of Competences of Future Educators for Requirements Education for Sustainable Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
Oksana Kondur ◽  
Halyna Mykhailyshyn ◽  
Nataliia Ridei ◽  
Oksana Katsero
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Education System ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Education ◽  
National Action Plan ◽  
National Education ◽  
Strategy Transformation

With the help of analysis the recommendations of major international conferences, treaties and conventions over the last two decades of reforming the education system for sustainable development have substantiated that the range of scholars interested in addressing the issues of progress towards sustainability has expanded from economists to scientists and economists. Businessmen, educators and representatives of governments, politicians, managers who are trying to bring sustainable development ideas into practice with all stakeholders.  Attention is directed to finding new solutions to the problems of sustainability of the biosphere and society. The main solution to the problems is the formation of national educational systems for sustainable development, which should include environmental, social and economic, organizational and managerial aspects of shaping the quality of training of specialists and the quality of life of humankind, using formal, non-formal inclusive democratically oriented models of education and science. In all areas with public awareness, broad access to education and a reorientation of the entire education system to take into account sustainable issues of development. Education for sustainable development should be at the forefront of the concepts and strategies for moving towards sustainability, which provided for the development of a National action plan for the implementation of the United Nations Strategy for education for sustainable development. It is established that activities to disseminate his ideas will help to improve the quality of education and to implement the principles of “Education for All”. Sustainable development issues should be included more actively in higher education institutions (HEI) curricula and science, at all levels to promote the formation of a national education system for sustainable development, and to formulate five- and ten-year framework programs and National action plans for the implementation of the UN Strategy. Transformation of HEI curricula and curriculum, primarily those providing pedagogical education, to form sustainable development competencies for future and contemporary teachers (academics) should be a priority of the National Action Plan for the implementation of the Strategy. We describe the basic requirements for the preparation of a modern teacher who would possess communication managerial, qualitative competencies.

The Department of State

2020 ◽  
pp. 239-296
Author(s):  
Joana Cook
Keyword(s):  
Action Plan ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Lead Agency ◽  
National Action Plan ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
The Us ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

This chapter is one of three which examines a key U.S. department or agency which played a fundamental role in an 'all-of-government' approach to countering terrorism. The US Department of State is the designated lead agency on all foreign policy matters. This chapter looks at democracy promotion in the GWOT and the rights and empowerment of women to challenge extremism. It highlights increasing efforts in State to consider and integrate women into its counterterrorism strategy, and broader initiatives such as the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, and the National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security. It highlights the growth CVE initiatives, as well as how State had to increasingly respond to sexual and gender-based violence committed by terrorist groups. Finally it considers how key discourses emphasized in State around women's rights and victimhood were also being utilized by terrorist groups.

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