As such, trainings for service providers from multi-disciplinary sectors (social workers, educators, psychologists, healthcare providers, legal, and security actors) are planned in the North, Bekaa, Beirut, and South regions of Lebanon, targeting over 160 professionals.
Mechanisms of administrative enforceability were more limited, but included public sector disciplinary processes and horizontal staff transfers as well as the work norms that shaped health worker attitudes and work patterns.
There is cross sector, cross disciplinary, grassroots solutions being offered to address the types of challenges that, increasingly, the rest of the national will be facing.
The visit enabled to learn about a comprehensive approach to child protection and the importance of multi-disciplinary cooperation of social sectors in delivering preventive and protective services to children and families at risk.
As more researchers realize that cross-disciplinary and cross-sector investigations are good for science and medicine, leaders predict there will be more collaboration between industry and academia.
A unifying framework for sustainability analyses, planning, cross-disciplinary and cross-sector cooperation, and cohesive use of the myriad sustainability tools, methods and concepts has been developed: the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development FSSDD).
The framework provides a stage-wise, product lifecycle centric frame of reference for comparing design processes in industries from different industrial sectors involving multi-disciplinary stakeholders.
Pay should be higher "where regional cost of living, disciplinary norms, and institutional or sector salary scales dictate," and fringe benefits should be "appropriate to [postdocs'] level of experience and commensurate with benefits given to equivalent full-time employees," it adds.
This has pushed many graduates from all disciplinary backgrounds into the informal sector where they try to scrape together a living.
