This article examines the reforms in education that have been occurring in Indonesia following the socio-political change marked by the fall of the Soeharto regime. Democratic citizens are now desired explicitly in the 2003 Education Act. As the decentralisation policy in governance has been implemented, autonomy in education has resulted in several consequent reforms. School Based Management h...

In many African countries, decentralization has long been viewed as a means for improving local service delivery. Yet, despite various decentralization initiatives, poor service delivery continues to be problematic in two of Kenya’s largest cities, Nairobi and Mombasa. Despite various governance reforms to enhance Kenya’s decentralization process, backed up by constitutional provisions and legi...

Cloud technologies are considerably utilised in BIM research and development, with the majority of research areas targeting the facilitation of team collaboration. One major hurdle for BIM adoption are issues resulted from team collaboration e.g. data loss, ownership and legal disputes. However, an argument has been put forward to utilise cloud-based BIM governance solution that have been devel...

NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE | VOL 4 | DECEMBER 2014 | www.nature.com/natureclimatechange The top-down approach to mitigating climate change as exemplified by the UNFCCC negotiations and the Kyoto Protocol has all but stalled, due to a panoply of political objections. To craft a more workable policy, states and non-state actors alike have shifted their focus to bottom-up ‘linkage’ of multinational, na...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the regional governance of the health systemin relation to management strategies and disputes. METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES A qualitative study with health managers from 19 municipalities in the health region of Bahia, Northeastern Brazil. Data were drawn from 17 semi-structured interviews of state, regional, and municipal health policymakers and managers; a focus group; obs...

The Baltic Sea ecosystem is subject to a wide array of societal pressures and associated environmental risks (e.g. eutrophication, oil discharges, chemical pollution, overfi shing and invasive alien species). Despite several years of substantial efforts by state and non-state actors, it is still highly unlikely that the regionally agreed environmental objectives of reaching “good environmental ...