The idea of harmonizing efforts was supported by the majority of organizations responding to this survey but such cooperation is in its infancy.
Several attempts have been made to improve aid effectiveness, by raising more funds, harmonizing efforts between donors, and aligning aid with national priorities.
Based on the experience of implementing these programs and results to date, these programs are being revised to integrate approaches by harmonizing efforts and messages.
This is made possible, in part, by UN reform and UNICEF is a key player in this which is harmonizing efforts across the agencies and enabling a sum of work that is greater than its parts.
In the case of predicting cetacean presence in the U.S. Atlantic (chapter 2), I extracted datasets from the online OBIS-SEAMAP geo-database, and integrated scientific surveys conducted by ship (n=36) and aircraft (n=16), weighting a Generalized Additive Model by minutes surveyed within space-time grid cells to harmonize effort between the two survey platforms.
The community needs also to decide how to harmonize efforts among agencies and with countries.
'Not cast in stone' UNICEF Representative in Ethiopia Ted Chaiban voiced the need to accelerate and harmonize efforts to abolish FGM/C in Africa.
As well as having a political mandate, national governments 'have to be in the driver's seat for creating coordination mechanisms that harmonize efforts of different partners and agencies' (44).
However, as noted previously under the integration findings, at the time of data collection, there was a need to harmonize efforts further to avoid redundancies in training, both between preservice education and in-service training and within in-service training courses.
It will also include Civil Society Organizations, Farmer-Based Organizations (FBOs), public-private partnerships and development partners in an effort to harmonize regional efforts through joint activities.
A large portion of respondents (70/100; 70%) indicated they 'somewhat' or 'strongly' support centralizing updating efforts across institutions or agencies that produce SRs (i.e., harmonizing updating efforts).
