The absence of a comprehensive strategy or "systems approach" has resulted in a patchwork of well-intended but often poorly coordinated initiatives.
A Commerce Department task force called for the creation of a "Privacy Bill of Rights" for online consumers and the establishment of an office within the department that would work to strengthen privacy policies in the United States and coordinate initiatives with other countries.
No governance body exists to coordinate initiatives to ensure that soils are appropriately represented in decision-making processes.
US cities, companies, universities and states are now taking the initiative to cooperate directly with other countries and coordinate initiatives on reducing greenhouse gas emissions via the UN's Non-State Actor Zone for Climate Action portal (NAZCA), which recognises the importance of sub-national actors in climate action.
The findings indicate government reviews of how to integrate and coordinate initiatives, and subsequent adjustments to counter unintended, negative effects (e.g. South Africa; controlling variation) or take it a step further (Zambia; aligning government-led community activities).
A well coordinated global initiative on basic education is crucial.
Last year, the Police Department coordinated the initiative with the city's five district attorneys and it resulted in more than 32,000 arrests and nearly 376,000 summonses in the impact areas, officials said.
During the lockdown in Freetown last month, members of the diaspora in London funded and coordinated an initiative that enabled a team of volunteers in the country to cook hot meals and distribute them to more than 2,500 people forbidden to leave their houses.
But some of the momentum created by government funding may be lost by China's lack of a nationally coordinated nanotech initiative.
In 2008, the authors coordinated an initiative that involved conducting follow-up in-depth interviews in which five of these women reflected on those body maps and on how their lives had changed in the intervening five years since gaining the right to treatment through the public sector.
We need coordinated global initiatives – such as looking at the price of healthy food compared to unhealthy food, or taxing high sugar and highly processed foods - to tackle this crisis".
