Extending the project team in DaNa2.0 with European experts allows for broadening of the existing knowledge portfolio by adding further cross-cutting topics and increasing our expertise, e.g. in the field of environmental exposure and fate.
"It's become clear to us... that there are cross-cutting topics that affect the standards for new sources, for modified sources and for existing sources, and we believe it's essential to consider these overlapping issues in a coordinated fashion," said Janet McCabe, the EPA's acting administrator for air quality.
In addition, the framework includes a number of cross-cutting topics such as leadership and governance, finance, and gender.
The cross-cutting topics were based on Dal Poz et al. [ 13] with the addition of gender [ 14].
Particular attention should be paid to key cross-cutting topics including gender equity, task shifting to optimise service delivery, and leadership and governance.
The remainder of this section reports on findings against the three functional areas of HRM in Table 1, the corresponding HRM topic areas, and the cross-cutting topics where found.
The framework includes a number of cross-cutting topics that relate to more than one of these functional or topic areas: for example, the rationale of task shifting is to mitigate worker shortages (workforce supply) by reorganising tasks among the remaining workforce to improve service delivery (workforce performance).
In terms of the cross-cutting topics, lack of reliable HR data is well-recognised as a major hurdle in assessing the state of the health workforce after conflict [ 28], which in turn hinders implementation of appropriate policies and strategies to rebuild it.
However, the CAM methodology could not be applied to the cross-cutting topic areas -- in order to identify priorities within each of the these three topic areas selected groups of stakeholders (mostly experts) prioritized the potential research topics using agreed criteria for rank-ordering.
In the new Core Curriculum for Basic Education, sustainable development is part of all seven cross-cultural cross-cutting competence-areas or themes that are included in all instruction, particularly in the cross-cutting theme of "Participation and building a sustainable future".
