Editing Best practice (section)

==In action==

===Clean air financing programs===
Financing Clean Air Programs, and example taken from NGA<ref>{{cite web|title=Clean Energy Financing |url=http://www.nga.org/cms/home/nga-center-for-best-practices/center-issues/page-eet-issues/col2-content/main-content-list/clean-energy-financing.html |publisher=NGA Center for Best Practice |access-date=22 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111214235855/http://www.nga.org/cms/home/nga-center-for-best-practices/center-issues/page-eet-issues/col2-content/main-content-list/clean-energy-financing.html |archive-date=14 December 2011 }}</ref> This is a quick guide put together by the NGA Center for Best Practices. It explores what clean air programs currently exist and how they are being financed. Rather than stating one best practice to tackling clean air, this report creates a table of the different programs, how they are being financed, and in what state. Governors and their staffs can then look for characteristics and solutions that are most realistic and applicable to their situation. The key is to tailor current practices that are in the world to the specific situation you are looking to solve. Best practices are meant to give insight into existing strategies.

=== Environmental management ===
{{See also|Best management practice for water pollution}}
The concept of best practice has been employed extensively in environmental management. For example, it has been employed in [[aquaculture]] such as recommending low-phosphorus feed ingredients,<ref>Macmillan, J.R., Huddleston, T., Woolley, M., and Fothergill, K., (2003) "Best management practice development to minimize environmental impact from large flow-through trout farms." ''Aquaculture'' 226, 91–99</ref> in forestry to manage [[riparian buffer zones]],<ref>Broadmeadow, S. and Nisbet, T.R., (2004) "The effects of riparian forest management on the freshwater environment: a literature review of best management practice." ''Hydrology and Earth System Sciences'' 8, 286–305</ref> in livestock and pasture management to regulate stocking rates,<ref>Brannan, K.M., Mostaghimi, S., McClellan, P.W. and Inamdar, S., 2000: "Animal waste BMP impacts on sediment and nutrient losses in runoff from the Owl Run Watershed." ''Transactions of the ASAE'' 43, 1155–1166</ref> and in particular, best management practices have been important to improving [[water quality]] relating to [[nonpoint source pollution]] of fertilizers in agriculture<ref>Gitau, M.W., Gburek, W.J., and Jarrett, A.R., (2005) "A tool for estimating best management practice effectiveness for phosphorus pollution control." ''Journal of Soil and Water Conservation'' 60, 1–10</ref> as well as the identification and adoption of best practice for controlling salinity.<ref>Hooper, B.P., 1995: "Adoption of best management practices for dryland salinity: the need for an integrated environmental management approach." Report prepared for the Murray-Darling Basin Commission. Centre for Water Policy Research University of New England, Armidale, N.S.W.</ref> However, in the context of complex environmental problems such as dryland salinity, there are significant challenges in defining what is best in any given context. Best management practice for complex problems is context specific and often contested against a background of imperfect knowledge.  In these contexts, it is more useful to think of best management practice as an adaptive learning process rather than a fixed set of rules or guidelines. This approach to best practice focuses on fostering improvements in quality and promoting continuous learning.<ref>Measham, T.G., Kelly, G.J. and Smith F.P. (2007) "Best Management Practice for complex problems: a case study of defining BMP for Dryland Salinity." ''Geographical Research'' 45 (3) pp. 262–272</ref>

===Higher education===
STEM Program explanation is taken from Angela Baber's report to the NGA.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nga.org/cms/home/nga-center-for-best-practices/center-publications/page-edu-publications/col2-content/main-content-list/using-community-colleges-to-buil.html;jsessionid=D6D0802411F8B4F9F3EADC75687B8AB1|title=Using Community Colleges to Build a STEM-Skilled Workforce|last=jlucas|website=www.nga.org|access-date=5 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815025942/https://www.nga.org/cms/home/nga-center-for-best-practices/center-publications/page-edu-publications/col2-content/main-content-list/using-community-colleges-to-buil.html%3bjsessionid=D6D0802411F8B4F9F3EADC75687B8AB1|archive-date=15 August 2017}}</ref> The NGA has identified science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) as important skills that need to be developed in community colleges in order to create a strong workforce. Many states are creating or have created STEM Programs to address this issue.  In order for these programs to work governors should:
* "Engage business to help ensure that community colleges meet regional STEM-skill needs
* Use community colleges to support new models of STEM education
* Reward community colleges and students for STEM course-completion
* Ensure that community colleges support more effective mathematics remediation
* Require that community college STEM credits and credentials are transferable."<ref>{{cite web|last=Baber|first=Angela|title=Using Community Colleges to Build a STEM-Skilled Workforce|url=http://www.nga.org/cms/home/nga-center-for-best-practices/center-publications/page-edu-publications/col2-content/main-content-list/using-community-colleges-to-buil.html;jsessionid=D6D0802411F8B4F9F3EADC75687B8AB1|publisher=NGA Center for Best Practices|access-date=22 September 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307155708/http://www.nga.org/cms/home/nga-center-for-best-practices/center-publications/page-edu-publications/col2-content/main-content-list/using-community-colleges-to-buil.html;jsessionid=D6D0802411F8B4F9F3EADC75687B8AB1|archive-date=7 March 2012}}</ref>

===Health and human services===
The [[U.S. Preventive Services Task Force]] (USPSTF) makes evidence-based recommendations on clinical preventive services. The Task Force recommendations are based on systematic reviews and assessment of the available medical evidence.

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The San Francisco Public Health Department<ref>[http://www.sfdph.org/dph/default.asp San Francisco Department of Public Health]. Sfdph.org. Retrieved on 2013-07-12.  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627214709/http://www.sfdph.org/dph/default.asp |date=2014-06-27 }}</ref> conducted The Transgender Best Practices Guide project, a best practices document for cultural and service competency in working with [[transgender]] clients within HIV/AIDS service- provision settings. Following an intensive literature search and consumer focus group, a Working Group composed of noted community leaders; activists, professionals, and transgender consumers participated in the development of the Best Practices guide. Topics covered by the Best Practices guide include mental health issues; gender identity; hormone use and clinical care practices. The Best Practices guide is currently in production; it will be published and distributed to EMA providers, as well as to select organizations nationwide. In addition, four large-scale EMA provider training will be provided to educate providers on the Best Practices recommendations and standard measures. This is the first national federally funded effort to develop a Best Practices guide for providers who serve the HIV positive transgender community.<ref>San Francisco Department of Public Health, ''Annual Report 2005–2006''</ref>

===Charity/nonprofit sector===
The nonprofit/voluntary sector is generally lacking tools for sharing and accessing best practices. Steps are being taken in some parts of the world, for example in the European Union, where the Europe 2020 Strategy has as a top priority the exchange of good practices and networking (including the nonprofit sector).<ref>{{cite web|title=Europe 2020 Civil Society|url=http://ec.europa.eu/europe2020/who-does-what/stakeholders/index_en.htm|publisher=European Commission|access-date=19 June 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622020032/http://ec.europa.eu/europe2020/who-does-what/stakeholders/index_en.htm|archive-date=22 June 2013}}</ref> An initiative of sharing good practices in terms of human resources (HR) and leadership among European nonprofit organizations was financed by the EU and launched in 2013, called HR Twinning.<ref>{{cite web|title=Improving nonprofit leadership and HR practices|url=http://www.hrtwinning.eu|publisher=Asociatia Young Initiative|access-date=19 June 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130613143951/http://www.hrtwinning.eu/|archive-date=13 June 2013}}</ref> The platform allows the public to search for good practices and its members the possibility to share their practices, engage in discussions in the forum section and enroll their organization. Membership is free. The project is currently limited to a European audience.