Building joined-up agricultural policies: Lessons from Québec

Lessons From Zika Policies to Improve Gender Equity

Gender equity is easily supported in theory but harder to pursue in practice. In this article, the case of Zika travel policies is used to illustrate some glaring gaps related to gender, for both men and women, at both international and national levels. Zika travel policies have not considered new evidence on biological or social determinants of health, putting babies at risk of exposure. The a...

Implementing Joined-Up Government: Lessons from the Australian Social Inclusion Agenda

‘Joined-up government’ (JUG) approaches have emerged in many industrialized countries as a means to tackle persistent ‘wicked’ public and social policy problems (Pollit 2003). Despite this, limited evidence exists concerning their implementation or effectiveness. ‘JUG’ was popularized by the Blair Government (UK) with its focus on addressing social exclusion. Following in these footsteps, in 20...

Joined-up thinking

Australia is embarking on an ambitious scheme described as a terrestrial version of the Great Barrier Reef, to establish a wildlife corridor along its 2,800-kilometre east coast to help protect the country's remarkable wildlife from potential climate change. The project aims to re-establish a network of habitats from the Australian Alps in the southern state of Victoria to the Atherton tablelan...

Business is Joined-up thinking

Usually, when letters arrive by the now old-fashioned method of snail-mail, I look forward to opening the envelopes, enjoying the fact that I can still look forward to receiving messages and communications in a more traditional manner, without knowing the title, subject or mail addresses of the senders. Coupled with this is the fact that getting letters delivered to you personally, brings an ai...

Anti-corruption policies: Lessons from the lab