At the community-based agencies level, we built a collaborative team of physicians, social workers, nurses, community educators, administrators, and people with disabilities along with their families and caregivers.
The implementation of the model also provided several recommendations to policymakers at the national and agency levels.
"Round-the-clock" coverage was adopted at all agency levels.
Intensified capacity-building activities targeting at individuals' weakness in specific knowledge and skills are urgently needed; in addition, capacity building at policy and system level as well as agency levels is of equal importance.
In some areas, such as traffic safety, there was an alignment between the national, regional and local agency levels, allowing distribution of strategies and resources to the local levels and a return of data from local injury surveillance.
At government and community agency levels, policy makers must recognize that SED women are a heterogeneous group who are at high risk for experiencing health inequities in the postpartum period.
Public-private partnerships must also be motivated and leveraged as key drivers of capacity strengthening, trust building, and funding for continued improvements at both industry and regulatory agency levels.
"The fact that it's now at the city agency level is big," said Marta Nelson, director of Project Greenlight for the Vera Institute of Justice.
That's especially true at the agency level, with the judiciary and in other arenas where the president can wield executive power.
For more meaningful democracy, some far-sighted officials advocate setting up agency-level councils, with powers over development projects.This would be overdue.
