In Bangladesh, for example, we found that an increase in indirect costs during a behaviour change programme – engaging NGOs to help train community health promoters – actually improved overall programme effectiveness as more households adopted good hygiene practices, such as hand-washing.
We worked with Sustrans to evaluate outcomes from their 'DIY Streets' pilot programme, engaging with communities, many of which suffer considerable deprivation, across the UK.
The programme engages them in entrepreneurship projects, provides non-financial services supporting the startup of small-to-medium enterprises and encourages remittance transfer.
The eradication programme engaged whole communities, forming important partnerships – with the World Health Organisation, Unicef, the Indian Red Cross and non-governmental organisations – and accessing children even in areas of insecurity, such as several states with violent Maoist insurgencies.
The programme engaged more than 1,800 policy-makers, 1,000 administrative and party school teachers and students, as well as 8,000 men and women at the village level.
Our data suggest that the outreach programme succeeded in reaching out to a large proportion of the parents, and that the programme engaged equally well with mothers and fathers.
The extensive PhD training programme engaged in by Thailand was considered very valuable in developing a cadre of competent health economics and policy research staff and giving young researchers international exposure through studying abroad.
As well as the National theatre's highly popular Watch This Space programme, regional theatres including Taunton's Brewhouse and Manchester's Contact theatre have developed exciting programmes engaging with outdoor performance.
Obama isn't about to end the war on drugs, but he might start scaling it back – diverting more resources into treatment programmes, engaging in a more nuanced rhetoric that separates hard and soft drugs, genuinely effective policy interventions from merely effective sound bites.
Finally, the results underline the benefits of health programmes engaging with local communities to maximise restoration of social roles of people with psychoses.
There is an urgent need for nation- and state-wide awareness programmes, engaging multiple stakeholders of society and the health system, to help improve cancer literacy in India.
