# Chapter 4 — Institutional Adoption of Quality Assurance Reforms

## Section 4.3 Policy Implications

These findings **tentatively suggest** that peer-review-based accreditation
may accelerate institutional responsiveness under low-resource conditions.
The observed association is exploratory; causal attribution cannot be drawn
from a cross-sectional, n=14-institution study without a comparison group.

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