Partners In Planning Research Articles

Transforming children's futures: the challenges and benefits of using data linkage to improve the planning of children's services within Scotland

ABSTRACT
 BackgroundRealigning Children’s Services is a programme which aims to improve the commissioning and planning of children’s services through the use of evidence and implementation science. A key focus of this is an ambitious data linkage project which links two sets of survey data with local administrative data from Education and Social Work in local Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs) within Scotland. The initial tranche for the programme worked with three CPPs in 2015/16 and has involved work at a national and local level.
 AimsThe data linkage component to the project has been closely aligned to local need and interest with continued collaboration with professionals in local areas from strategic managers to schools. The data resulting from the linkage will allow for a series of reports tailored to local priorities and will also inform a data visualisation tool which will help professionals to look closely at the data. It has also prompted discussion and reflection within the local areas around what data is currently used in each locality, how evidence can inform their planning and what gaps exist within their knowledge base which could be filled through the data linkage.
 ApproachContribution Analysis was used as a framework to evaluate the effectiveness of the Realigning Children’s Services programme. This allowed a focus on far reaching outcome measures alongside process measures through a mix of qualitative and quantitative data. Data from this evaluation will inform future linkage projects and evaluate the use of linked data in strategic planning in children’s services.
 ConclusionThe Realigning Children’s Services programme has shown that data linkage within a children and families context can be complex and ethically challenging. However it also offers professionals access to critical data which can otherwise go overlooked. This presentation will discuss these challenges and consider how this work has been used to help local areas improve their planning of their services for children and families within a multidisciplinary setting.

Court orders companies to take cholesterol drug off the market

The makers of the cholesterol-lowering drug Praluent must remove it from the market permanently, a federal judge in Delaware ruled in early January. The move fulfills Amgen’s request for a permanent injunction to prevent the sale, manufacture, and marketing of Praluent, a monoclonal antibody developed by a partnership between Regeneron and Sanofi. Praluent is a competitor to Amgen’s Repatha. Both drugs are inhibitors of the cholesterol regulator proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9). Amgen sued Praluent for infringement of two of its patents for monoclonal antibodies and argued that allowing Praluent to remain on the market would cause irreparable harm to its business. Although Amgen was the first to patent its treatment, Praluent was the first inhibitor of PCSK9 to win FDA approval. The judge determined that the damage to Amgen’s business outweighed the public interest in having two drugs on the market. The partnership plans to appeal the injunction

Perencanaan Tata Ruang Bagian Wilayah Perkotaan Kepanjen, Studi tentang Konsistensi Pelaksanaan Rencana Detail Tata Ruang Bagian Wilayah Perkotaan Kepanjen Tahun 2014-2034

This paper examines spatial planning and consistency between planning and field condition facts. The author collected the data from Observations, interviews, and documentation. Results: Findings showed that spatial planning at Kepanjen Urban Areas is relevant to the ninth principles of spatial planning in accordance with the Law on Spatial Planning and also control results (licensing) and the nine aspects of the control system to see the consistency of the implementation of Kepanjen Urban Area 2014-2034. The results indicate that spatial planning of Kepanjen Urban Area is relevant with the nine principles of spatial planning but there has been no form of partnership in planning. There is consistency in the implementation of Kepanjen Urban Area 2014-2034 in 12 suburbs/villages.

Implementing Laboratory Quality Management Systems in Mozambique: The Becton Dickinson-US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Public-Private Partnership Initiative.

Mozambique's ministry of health (MOH) recognized the need to establish a national laboratory quality assurance (NLQA) program to improve the reliability and accuracy of laboratory testing. The Becton Dickinson-US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Public-Private Partnership (PPP) was used to garner MOH commitment and train a cadre of local auditors and managers to support sustainability and country ownership of a NLQA program. From January 2011 to April 2012, the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa Stepwise Laboratory Quality Improvement Process Towards Accreditation (SLIPTA) checklist and the Strengthening Laboratory Management Towards Accreditation (SLMTA) curriculum were used in 6 MOH laboratories. PPP volunteers provided training and mentorship to build the capacity of local auditors and program managers to promote institutionalization and sustainability of the program within the MOH. SLIPTA was launched in 6 MOH laboratories, and final audits demonstrated improvements across the 13 quality system essentials, compared with baseline. Training and mentorship of MOH staff by PPP volunteers resulted in 18 qualified auditors and 28 managers/quality officers capacitated to manage the improvement process in their laboratories. SLIPTA helps laboratories improve the quality and reliability of their service even in the absence of full accreditation. Local capacity building ensures sustainability by creating country buy-in, reducing costs of audits, and institutionalizing program management.

Transatlantic Partnership Plan: Germany's Position

Transatlantic Partnership Plan: Germany's Position

Initiative to Assist Developing Nations with Climate Resilience

The Climate Services for Resilient Development partnership plans to provide expertise and data to help developing nations be less vulnerable.

Mechanism of Stimulating Ecological Initiatives in Agricultural Development: Application of the US Best Practice in Russia

This review article reflects on the tools of the mechanism of stimulating ecological initiatives in rural development of the United States, including servitude practices, financial and technical assistance, landscape planning and regional partnership. As part of servitude practices, the eponymous mechanism is implemented to give land and forest a conservation status in order to ensure the long-term productive use of agricultural land currently in production or production of ecosystem goods. Landscape planning in rural areas aimed at emergency and preventive protection of watersheds, as well as the rehabilitation of hydraulic structures. Regional Conservation Partnership Program involves the provision of technical assistance and investment of environmental initiatives on the part of owners and operators of agricultural and nonindustrial private forest lands for conservation of natural resources at the regional level or in the catchment areas. The US best practice of state regulatory measures can be successfully adapted in Russia. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3s5p133

Characteristics of the Neighbourhood Plan and Community Partnership in the United Kingdom

Characteristics of the Neighbourhood Plan and Community Partnership in the United Kingdom

Tackling Child Poverty Locally: Principles, Priorities and Practicalities in Challenging Times

The 2010 Child Poverty Act placed new obligations to address child poverty upon each of the national governments in Britain and all of the local authorities in England and Wales. Local authorities in Scotland do not have the same legal requirement to tackle child poverty, but it is evident that their actions, in conjunction with local partners within the context of Community Planning Partnerships, will be critical to the success of the Child Poverty Strategy for Scotland introduced by the Scottish Government in 2011 . At the present time, local interventions to tackle child poverty must be enacted under particularly challenging conditions, as measures to reduce child poverty are undermined by a prolonged economic recession, fiscal austerity, reductions in UK welfare spending, and welfare reforms introduced by the UK government which appear likely to increase the number of households and children experiencing poverty. This paper examines what measures Scottish local authorities, Community Planning Partnerships and other local bodies could take to address child poverty at the local level and meet the national commitment to eradicate child poverty by 2020.

Partnering with American Indian communities in health using methods of strategic collaboration.

The Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) sponsored six regional workshops in 2010 on community engagement and community-engaged research. One of the six workshops was a collaborative effort between the Great Plains Tribal Chairman's Health Board (GPTCHB)-Northern Plains Tribal Epidemiology Center and the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC-COPH). To create a meaningful and dynamic forum for the exchange of ideas and co-learning between researchers from urban, tribal and nontribal communities and to build the groundwork for development of sustainable partnerships between researchers and American Indian (AI) communities to eliminate health disparities. To enhance meaningful community engagement, we utilized methods of Strategic Collaboration using the Appreciative Inquiry, 4D Change Process Model and designed several interactive group activities including Collaborative Learning and Understanding Exercises (CLUE) and the Research Café. The key themes that emerged from the interactive sessions stressed the importance of building relationships and trust; mutual use and sharing of data; and acquiring knowledge, skills, and abilities to enable sustainable research partnerships with AI communitiesConclusions: Innovative, dynamic, and strategic collaborative methods of Appreciative Inquiry and the World Café can served to engage people in a constructive dialogue to create a shared vision and plan for more meaningful research partnerships based on principles of equity and social justice, essential for the elimination of health disparities. These collaborative methods can be replicated and adapted in diverse communities, locally, nationally, and globally.

Briefing: Municipal engineering in Brazil

This paper presents a briefing on the development and the evolution of cities in Brazil, commenting on historical context, engineering teaching and practice, and infrastructure highlights. Infrastructure emphasises the challenges of energy generation and distribution, urban mobility and housing policies. The briefing also discusses the new legal base for innovative intervention processes, as master plans, participative planning and public-private partnerships that, in the next few years, will impact on city planning and managing.

Making the Unfamiliar Familiar: Social Representations of Teachers about Parental Engagement in an Intervention Program in Quebec

This article seeks to identify the social representations (SR) of parental engagement (PE) among teachers participating in a partnership program implemented between 2002 and 2009 in 24 primary schools located in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities in Quebec, Canada. We focus on the content analysis of follow-up interviews carried out among teachers (n=32) in 2008 and the content analysis of the partnership plans (n=124) produced between 2003 and 2009. Our analysis enabled us not only to identify and describe the RS of the PE from a structural point of view, but they also reveal some of the dynamics pertaining to the SR.

Being Strategic in Partnership – Interpreting Local Knowledge of Modern Local Government

Broad and international literature exists on networked governance which has both described and informed recent transformations in local government. Reforms in the UK have led to the development of strategic partnerships to join up services and solve wicked issues. In Scotland, these are referred to as Community Planning Partnerships. Evidence from numerous studies has highlighted the partial nature of this transformation, particularly around community engagement, with some of the pioneers of this work now questioning earlier assumptions. This article presents an interpretive policy analysis of strategic partnership in Scotland to add three themes to this literature. First, to demonstrate the historical contingency of ‘joined-up government’; second, to explore the practices and meanings used by policy actors to understand ‘strategic’ and ‘partnerships’. Finally, the article problematises strategic partnership working, suggesting that in and of itself it creates effective barriers to community empowerment and even engagement.

Globalisation and the urban studio: evaluating an inter-university studio collaboration in Nairobi

This paper explores some implications of globalisation for planning education and presents faculty and student reflections on an international urban studio and three policy workshops in the Municipality of Ruiru, located outside of Nairobi, Kenya. This learning was embedded in a long-term partnership between the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Nairobi and Columbia University. We argue that carefully structured international studios and workshops are rich learning experiences that can help teach respect for local learning and knowledge. Our findings also suggest the importance of transformational and ‘authentic’ partnerships between universities, faculty and local urban players. These are partnerships characterised by equality in the way of working with all partners changing and learning in a reciprocal manner as they work together. We also underscore the importance of more explicit theorisation and evaluation of the growing number of international partnerships in urban planning.

Rare diseases and referral centers

Rare diseases represent a major public health challenge due to their number, presently estimated to be between 6000 and 8000, their severity and the absence of any preventive treatment. The enactment of two National Plans for Rare Diseases by the establishment of Referral Centers and Diagnosis and Treatment Centers has brought about a recognition of the specificity of these disorders, the creation of a epidemiological database, a framework for rapid diagnosis protocols at the first symptoms, greater access to specialized care to accompany the afflicted and their families during their frequently difficult medico-social journey, training of skilled health professionals in the field of these rare diseases, promotion of basic and clinical research and finally the development of European partnerships in both research and therapeutic planning.

Management of Public Enterprises through Public Private Partnership in Nigeria

Collaboration with corporations, small businesses, non-governmental organizations and civil society organizations to provide socially beneficial goods and services. Public enterprises and the private sector cooperate in providing services and infrastructure through a variety of mechanisms. The level of performance and development of public enterprise in the country are very low due to corruption, management inefficiencies, overstaffing and inflation. This paper therefore in tend to highlight the different mechanisms of public private partnership (PPPs) in the management of public enterprise including concessions, build-operate- and- transfer (BOTs) arrangement, joint ventures and informal and voluntary cooperation as applied in some Latin American and Asian countries. The paper recommends that the government should clearly identify goals and objectives of public private partnerships and embody them in an official set of laws, develop strategy for management plan for public private partnerships and create employment protection measures for current government employees in organization that will go in to public private partnerships.

Management of Public Enterprises through Public Private Partnership in Nigeria

Collaboration with corporations, small businesses, non-governmental organizations and civil society organizations to provide socially beneficial goods and services. Public enterprises and the private sector cooperate in providing services and infrastructure through a variety of mechanisms. The level of performance and development of public enterprise in the country are very low due to corruption, management inefficiencies, overstaffing and inflation. This paper therefore in tend to highlight the different mechanisms of public private partnership (PPPs) in the management of public enterprise including concessions, build-operate- and- transfer (BOTs) arrangement, joint ventures and informal and voluntary cooperation as applied in some Latin American and Asian countries. The paper recommends that the government should clearly identify goals and objectives of public private partnerships and embody them in an official set of laws, develop strategy for management plan for public private partnerships and create employment protection measures for current government employees in organization that will go in to public private partnerships. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2013.v4n15p15

Does a Partnership Need Partners? Assessing Partnerships for Critical Infrastructure Protection

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has used a partnership planning model of implementation to address the protection of critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR). The partnership relies upon existing regulators and operators to secure CIKR with little ability of DHS to compel action. Instead, the Department of Homeland Security acts to define and draw attention to tasks related critical infrastructure protection. This article analyzes Government Accountability Office reports to characterize variations in success of the partnership by assessing the extent to which DHS has addressed key components of partnership planning: creating a structure that encourages collaboration, establishing trust across partners, monitoring partners’ performance, attending to differences in partners’ organizational culture, identifying and leveraging existing relationships among partners, and instilling a sense of a common mission in the partnership. The findings underscore the limitations of partnership approaches in addressing complex problems that lack strong leadership and clear policy goals.

Strategizing Systematic HIV Intervention: A Case Study

For any intervention in public health, one needs to gather the evidence on the basis of which systematic plans and strategies can be built. In Rajasthan, for HIV and AIDS prevention, care and support activities apex organisation is Rajasthan State AIDS Control Society (RSACS). IIHMR, Jaipur, provided technical support to RSACS in targeted interventions, capacity building, strategic planning and public private partnership. In systematising the intervention with the sex workers living in district Sawai Madhopur, a situational analysis was carried out. The district is internationally known tourist place in Rajasthan and has remarkable mobility pattern among sex workers. It was found that in the district, the risk and vulnerabilities of sex workers has increased because of this mobility and illiteracy. It was reported that majority of sex workers in Sawai Madhopur knew that AIDS is not curable and the rest had either no idea or they thought AIDS could be cured. Amongst those who reported that they had no idea about the cure of HIV/AIDS, most of them were active sex workers. These active sex workers, hence, due to lack of awareness about STI, HIV and AIDS, were very vulnerable against HIV infection. Majority of the sex workers reported that they were not willing to use female condoms. Nearly half of the sex workers in Sawai Madhopur joined this profession as tradition of their families and caste. For HIV prevention and BCC, the better strategy is to use such IEC materials which contains pictures on various issues like condom negotiation, managing violence, sex workers collectives, correct and consistent use of condoms, STI, RTI, HIV and AIDS. Efforts should also be made to integrate the children from sex workers family into formal education process and, simultaneously, a little older children should be imparted skills in alternative trainings for joining other acceptable means of earning livelihood.

Digitalization and intelligentization of manufacturing industry

China has entered a new historical period in her development. In order to achieve scientific development and to accelerate transformation of economic development pattern, the most fundamental issue is to rely on the power of science and technology, and the most crucial element is to improve the capability of independent innovation. The key for promoting China’s economic and social development is to embark on the innovation-driven track as soon as possible. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, the landscape of the global competition has undergone profound changes. On the one hand, the strategic significance of the industrial economy has once again become prominent, as major developed countries are refocusing on the industrial economy and implementing a strategy of re-industrialization. In 2009, the U.S. enacted the Framework for Revitalization of U.S. Manufacturing Industry and Congress passed the Manufacturing Promotion Act. In late 2011, the U.S. initiated the ‘‘Advanced Manufacturing Partnership Plan’’ and released a five-year plan to revitalize and double the exports of the manufacturing sector. In February this year, the U.S. again promulgated an Advanced Manufacturing National Strategic Plan, under which she proposed to once again recognize the status of the advanced manufacturing sector in the national economy and maintain international leadership and dominance in the field of advanced manufacturing. Germany, Britain, Japan and other developed countries have launched a series of major initiatives to revitalize their manufacturing sector. On the other hand, a new round of industrial revolution is deepening, and developed countries in the West are proposing new ways of revitalizing their manufacturing sector, by relying on scientific and technological innovation, seizing the commanding heights in international industrial competition, and enhancing their core competencies in economic development in order to seize the initiative in future development. For example, through product model innovation, integration and incorporation of the latest technologies, Apple has successfully pioneered the development direction for IT products. Another example is the breakthrough of shale gas development in U.S. which brought about a ‘‘shale gas revolution’’. It had a profound impact not only on the world’s energy situation but also on the political and economic development. Recently, scholars in the U.S. have published a number of articles. Firstly, they emphasized the impending round of industrial revolution with ‘‘digitalization in manufacturing’’ as its core technology. Secondly, their viewpoint was that the U.S. had substantial advantage in information technology which should be vigorously developed and widely applied using digitalization and intelligentization as the core technology in advanced manufacturing, in order to achieve revolutionary changes in the manufacturing sector. Thirdly, they pointedly noted that with the emerging technologies, in 20 years’ time China’s manufacturing industry will very likely experience the budding difficulties faced by the U.S. during the past 20 years. Very soon it will be China’s turn to be worried. After 60-plus years endeavors made after the founding of New China—in particular the struggles during economic reform and opening up over the past 30 years—China’s manufacturing industry has achieved historical leaps and J. Zhou (&) Chinese Academy of Engineering, Beijing, China