The three biggest ADB health projects are currently operated under a single PIU under the HSACC, allowing better harmonization and alignment between the projects and MoH, besides substantially saving management costs.
Last year we launched a report with the ACCA, "Lost in the Right Direction," where we recommended some tangible activities that could be advanced to help progress better harmonization.
Recommendations: For better programming, partners need to link up their resources for better harmonization to contribute to better coordination of data during assessment and improved analysis through harmonization of methodologies and approaches by various agencies in capacity building.
Groups such as the Global Alliance are exploring how to enable data sharing through various initiatives, including better harmonization, creation of standards and development of incentives [ 2, 3].
However, the emphasis of these chapters, and the form of the management solutions suggested, might have benefited from better harmonization with the other elements of the book.
To allow better harmonization of data from existing and future studies involving biomonitoring, we recommend several specific guidelines for study design and implementation and for reporting data and study findings in the peer-reviewed literature: The appropriateness of biomonitoring measurements in the proposed study should be considered.
This improvement will enable greater harmonization of laboratory autoimmune tests, greater accuracy of test results, and a better outcome for patients with autoimmune diseases.
They would also create better speed harmonization, since the vehicles could be programmed to drive in predictable ways.
A sector wide approach (SWAp) was mentioned as a solution for better coordination and harmonization between development partners themselves and between development partners and the countries.
