This study has discussed the factors related to the knowledge management based on the previous studies as well as the studies knowledge management in police forces. According to a studies carried out in the cycle of knowledge management in government agencies and police forces, knowledgesharing is the main success of knowledge management in these organizations. Therefore, based on these studies...

Tobacco use is one of the major risk factors for non-communicable diseases, with a profound impact on resource-poor low-income and middle-income countries such as India, where tobacco use is high and where socioeconomic as well as health inequalities are rampant. Effective implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control requires multisectoral efforts that can fructify through inte...

Due to regulation linking budgeting to performance and other government initiatives, government agencies need to quantify the benefits of proposed business strategy. This need can be satisfied by discrete event simulation. This paper details the approach used on a recent government project to assess the impact of proposed changes to a system and to provide a business case for change. The benefi...

Compliance and enforcement activities are essential to effective implementation of environmental legislation. Despite, or perhaps because of, the decades of experience government agencies have had in designing and deploying a wide range of compliance and enforcement techniques, there exists no unified theory of environmental compliance and enforcement. Instead, a variety of theories and program...

Collaborative, family-centered practice has become an influential approach in helping efforts across a broad spectrum of human services. This article draws from previous work that presented a principle-based, practice framework of Collaborative Helping and highlighted the use of Collaborative Helping maps as a tool both to help workers think their way through complex situations and to provide a...

Non-government organisations (NGOs) have long played a role in delivering sanitation services to communities in Southeast Asia and Pacific countries, particularly in rural areas. In contrast with large scale infrastructure focused initiatives, NGO programs commonly focus on building linkages between technical and social realms. Drawing on the breadth and depth of NGO experiences, there are oppo...

Refugees frequently face extended delays in their efforts to enter the United States (U.S.) and those who are successful, in many cases, encounter overwhelming obstacles, inadequate resources, and a complex system of legal barriers. Travel restrictions based on equivocal health concerns and a drop in refugee admittance ceilings have complicated the situation. The authors retrieved and analyzed ...

Environmental Controls with Corrupt Bureaucrats Richard Damania Environmental regulations typify a large class of activities in the public sector where government agencies are required to monitor the degree of compliance. These tasks are usually delegated to bureaucrats who, as self interested agents, may engage in corrupt behaviour. Such problems abound, particularly in developing countries, w...

The following paper is a study of aging in two societies, the United States and the traditional culture of the IKung of western Botswana, Africa. The material reviewed includes current and projected population trends, cultural norms with regard to the elderly, and potential foture implications of the gathered information. Resources consisted of journal articles, books, and government agency rep...

A government agency delegates to a provider (hospital, medical gatekeeper, school, social worker) the decision to supply a service or treatment to individual recipients. The agency does not perfectly know the distribution of individual treatment costs in the population. The single-crossing property is not satisfied when the uncertainty pertains to the dispersion of the distribution. We find tha...