Development platforms and policy directives

Development platforms and policy directives
It is critical to ensure that mainstreaming has legitimacy. There are
various ways of doing this. One way is to relate mainstreaming to
specifi c development platforms, for example, to the constitutional
objectives of local government or to the MDGs. Another option is
specifi c policy directives. Some of these may exist – either at sectoral
or government level – but they are not well disseminated, used,
or operational. Often what is missing is support to the dissemination
and enforcement of these policy directives. In Zambia, for example,
an excellent HIV and AIDS workplace policy for the education sector
has been produced, but more work is still needed to ensure that
it is effectively disseminated in schools and that implications of the
policy are integrated in education management processes