... adopted in 1994 at the ICPD in Cairo (8) and reaffirmed and strengthened at the FWCW in Beijing in 1995 (9), articulates a critical shift of focus in health and population policies and programmes ... facilitate information-sharing and Special Theme ± Reproductive Health670 Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2000, 78 (5)coordination among the different levels of the healthsystem in both the ... monitor and regulate the quality of care in both public and private sectors.Decentralization has been conceptualized verybroadly in terms of policy, financing, administration, and programming at the...