In the case of training professionals for specific mental health projects, representatives from the populations directly concerned by the mental health promotion objective in question are encouraged to participate in fixing the health objectives and designing and delivering the programme.
To ensure that the list of grants to be analyzed included all relevant projects, representatives from the ICs that funded projects in the list evaluated their IC's projects and added 86 projects not captured by the new fingerprint but deemed relevant, resulting in a total of 1,357 projects.
For the Zika project, representatives of the World Health Organization took part, but so did a researcher from Pakistan, who is using predictive analytics to spot dengue, and a social entrepreneur from Brooklyn, who has designed an app to coordinate school children to pick up trash where water collects.
In the field, project representatives connect laptops to the web using a mobile broadband dongle.
We conducted interviews with and on-site observations of village residents, factory workers, project representatives, village leaders, and other key informants.
We approached authoritative project representatives and asked them to self-asses their project's affinity to the 13 characteristics based on the descriptions given above on an ordinal scale from 0-9, with 0 indicating no affinity (the project is indifferent to considerations of this feature) and 9 indicating the strongest affinity (the project regards this feature to be crucially important).
Our matching site then suggests projects, and members can request introductions to the project representatives to learn more.
Several former and current commissioners say that ending ex-parte communication would likely result in more public comment, longer public hearings and more workshops, where project representatives and opponents alike would get plenty of time to present information and their views about a proposed development.
During the 8-month project, representatives from each site met every 6 weeks.
Community leaders organized village meetings where project representatives provided a clear description of community health worker volunteer roles and expectations.
As part of this project, representatives of the 'panchayat', or councils, at the village level were elected to identify community needs.
