Each sector evaluation also looked at a number of important cross-sectoral issues.
A World Brain for the 21st century should have at least seven features: timely abstracts of key books/reports/articles in several languages, comprehensive coverage, identification of not-yet-published books in the publisher's pipeline, regional and national nodes for collection and dissemination, overviews of sectoral and cross-sectoral issues, user-friendly features, and ample publicity.
In many countries, producing holistic communication has been a cost-effective way of meeting the needs of children and caregivers on several cross-sectoral issues.
Capabilities regarding ECD programming appear to be high within the UNICEF CO, but conceptualization of ECD as a cross-sectoral issue remains a challenge.
Debates in recent years have also recognized corruption as a key development challenge, and the need to increase transparency as a cross-sectoral issue [ 32].
"Violence against girls is truly a cross-sectoral issue, and we are committed to working together towards a day when girls and women can live free of violence," Ms. Rao Gupta said.
Health progress is increasingly tackled as a cross-sectoral issue [ 6, 7], and countries act by increasing their research and innovation budgets, putting in place enabling policies, or by engaging in large collaborative partnerships in research and innovation.
Space is also devoted to the description of how the consortium dealt with the inter-disciplinary and cross-sectoral communication issues, internally in the project, and in interactions with external experts and other stakeholders.
Sectoral issues in agriculture, health, education, manufacturing.
Spaces of action bridged the gap between different administrative units and sectoral issues.
The agenda has guided a call for proposals issued by COSTECH in 2014; The process helped strengthen capacity of COSTECH staff, as well as stakeholders who participated in the various workshops, in using priority setting approaches in a cross sectoral and multi-disciplinary environment.
