In 1991, the UK government introduced the Child Support Act to enforce the requirement that all parents who were liable to pay child support to their partners should do so. The Child Support Agency was formed in 1993 to implement the provisions… Read more

The Bujagali hydropower dam on the River Nile in Uganda was initially approved in 1994 as the lowest cost option to increase power production in the country. Construction eventually began in 2007 and the government finally inaugurated the dam in October 2012. The project… Read more

Zimbabwe has long suffered from high levels of chronic malnutrition among its population, which have led the government and international organisations to launch several initiatives over the years to tackle the problem. Two of the largest programmes have been the Community Food… Read more

In the 1990s, India had the highest infant mortality rate in the world. In 1997, the Indian government introduced the Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) programme to reduce infant, child and maternal mortality. Three years later, India signed the Millennium Declaration adopted… Read more

In 2000, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) began developing the Virtual Case File, a case management system, as part of a wider FBI information technology upgrade project called Trilogy. The project was intended to help FBI agents share data about… Read more

Australia’s coalition government introduced the Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005 to create “a more flexible, simpler and fairer system of workplace relations for Australia”.[1] The legislation faced strong opposition from unions and the public, who argued that it was overcomplex and… Read more

The US Air Force launched its Expeditionary Combat Support System programme in 2004. The Air Force’s aim was to create a single, unified logistics and supply chain management system that would allow it to track all of its physical assets and make efficiency savings. Read more

The Sri Lankan government launched its Samurdhi (or Prosperity) Programme in 1995 with the main goal of reducing poverty in Sri Lanka. It had a wide network of national and local level officials administering its activities and was led by… Read more

The Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) was rolled out in India in 1985, extending the Expanded Programme for Immunisation (EPI), which had attempted to provide recommended vaccines against tuberculosis, polio and other diseases for all Indian children. The Ministry of Health and… Read more

In 1999, the Nigerian government introduced Universal Basic Education, a programme to provide free primary and secondary education for all. This programme was created after several unsuccessful attempts at improving education in the country. Unfortunately, although there has been some… Read more