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Advance Africa. Background: The Best Practices Process. Arlington, VA, Advance Africa, 2005. 
 
Advance Africa. Turning best practices into useful program tools. Report on a meeting held October 11, 2001 in Arlington, VA. Arlington, VA, Advance Africa, 2001. 
 
American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC). The World Bank profile. Best Practices in Knowledge Management. Houston, APQC, 2003.
 
Buxbaum, A., Dwyer, J., and Reimann, S. Leading changes in practices to improve health. The Manager 13(3):1-24, 2004. Cambridge, MA, Management Sciences for Health, 2004. 
 
Center for Applied Research (CFAR). Briefing notes: Transferring best practices within global corporations. Philadelphia, PA, CFAR, 1999.
 
Delivery of Improved Services for Health (DISH) II Project. Best Practices. Kampala, Uganda, DISH, 2002. 
 
Fischer, B. Personal communication, May 18, 2004.
 
Gainer, J. Jeff Gainer's critical path. Best Practices: Informal, Effective Process Improvement. 1998. 
 
The Gallup Organization. Capture the stories of your best performers in each role. In: The four disciplines of sustainable growth: the critical elements of a performance management system. Gallup Management Journal, September 26, 2002. 
 
Letts, C.W., Ryan, W.P., and Grossman, A. Benchmarking: How nonprofits are adapting a business planning tool for enhanced performance. The Grantsmanship Center Magazine, Winter 1999. 
 
Management of Social Transformation Programmes (MOST). MOST Clearing House: Best Practices. Paris, United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 2005.
 
National Health Service (NHS) [United Kingdom]. KM toolbox: inventory of tools and techniques. National Electronic Library for Health (NeLH). London, NHS Information Authority, 2001.  
 
National Health Service (NHS) [United Kingdom], Clinical Governance Support Team (CGST). Clinical governance: Resources. Leicester, NHS CGST, 2005. 
 
O'Dell, C., and Grayson, C.J. Identifying and Transferring Internal Best Practices. APQC White Paper. Houston, American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC), 2000. 
 
Prefontaine, C. Using stories to promote best practices in Uganda: The Commercial Market Strategies Project's Best Practices Bulletin. Unpublished, 2004.
 
Public Sector Benchmarking Service (PSBS). About Benchmarking. London, PSBS, 2005. 
 
Rigby, H. Documenting, Disseminating, and Facilitating Adoption of DISH Best Practices. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs, 2001.
 
Rogers, E. Diffusion of Innovations, 4th ed. New York: Free Press, 1962.
 
Scally, G. and Donaldson, L.J. Clinical governance and the drive for quality improvement in the new NHS in England. British Medical Journal 317: 61-65, 1998.
 
Setty, V. Organizing Work Better. Population Reports, Series Q, Number 2. Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, The INFO Project, Winter 2004. 
 
Simard, C., and Rice, R.E. The practice gap: Barriers to the diffusion of best practices. The Center for Organizational Development and Leadership (ODL), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2001. 
 
Singleton, S. Best practices plan: dissemination of a great idea. Ezine Articles, 2005. 
 
Skryme, D.J. Are Your Best Practices Really the Best? I3 UPDATE / Entovation International News, No. 54, October 2001. 
 
Skryme, D. Best Practices in Best Practices. K-Guide. Highclere, England, David Skryme Associates, June 2002.
 
UNAIDS. What Can Be Considered a Best Practice? Geneva, UNAIDS, 2005. 
 

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (RBAP). Good Practices. New York, UNDP, 2003. 

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (RBAP). Best Practices – Questionnaire. New York, UNDP, 2002a.
 
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (RBAP). SURF Principles to assist in identification of good practices. New York, UNDP, 2002b.
 
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Office of Oversight and Evaluation. Glossary of Monitoring and Evaluation Terms. Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit for Programme Managers, Tool No. 1. New York, UNFPA, June 2001. 
 
United Nations (UN) Inter-Agency Committee on Women and Gender Equality (IACWGE). United Nations Resource on Gender: Guidelines and Criteria for Good Practices. New York, UN, 1999.
 

United States Department of Defense, OSD Comptroller i-Center. Best Practices and Benchmarking. Washington, DC, OSD Comptroller iCenter, 2002.  

Vitasek, K., and Manrodt, K.B. Finding best practices in your own backyard. Supply Chain Management Review, Jan-Feb 2005.

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