CROP ADVISORY COMMITTEES: AN ADVISORY COMPONENT OF THE NATIONAL PLANT GERMPLASM SYSTEM

Transparency in Canadian public drug advisory committees.

BACKGROUND Transparency in health care resource allocation decisions is a criterion of a fair process. We used qualitative methods to explore transparency across 11 Canadian drug advisory committees. METHODS We developed seven criteria to assess transparency (disclosure of members' names, disclosure of membership selection criteria, disclosure of conflict of interest guidelines and members' c...

The Politics of Representation on Government Advisory Committees

The United States Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) requires advisory committees to be “fairly balanced.” By examining legislative, judicial, and administrative interpretations of FACA’s balance requirement, this article identifies a prevailing double standard: public officials assess committee members classified as experts in terms of their professional competence, while they assess those ...

Ontology-based Advisory System for Cotton Crop Farmers

Different parts of the country have recently witnessed a large number of suicide deaths by the farmers who found themselves in extreme distress. A variety of factors are held as responsible for the farmers’ suicides which includes a) adverse seasonal conditions, b) lack of irrigation facilities, c) massive pest attack, d) wrong agricultural practices and failure of extension services: excessive...

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Stakeholder Advisory Committees

Advisory committees are an important tool for stakeholder involvement in a ‘collaborative’level process, as defined by IAP2’s Public Participation Spectrum. This paper identifies challenges involved in setting up and running these and explores a set of principles that have underpinned the successful operation of a number of advisory committees associated with environmentally-sensitive projects....

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics