For two DPBRN regions, collaborations were established with two organizations: HP of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and PDA, of the greater metropolitan Portland, Oregon area.
Surveillance data from the World Health Organization's Western Pacific Region collaboration for 1992-93 reported 0% and 2% prevalence of fluoroquinolone resistance among nontyphoidal salmonella and shigella, respectively, in Vietnam, although the numbers of isolates and shigella groups were not specified (11).
The Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training (CHART) network and JHPIEGO, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, implemented the VCT Training Program in twelve countries within the Caribbean Region to promote regional collaboration, program sustainability, and appropriate distribution of VCT clinical skills and training skills across the region.
The primary critique we expect of the two strategies we propose here is that they depend on regional collaboration in a region of the world not known for collective action.
Hospital region will probably be one of the most challenging determinants, since hospitals cannot move to another geographical region and regional collaborations are embedded, which might be tough to effect change upon.
The effective implementation of regional collaborations within malarious regions looking to eliminate may be crucial for the success of national and regional malaria elimination.
The Regional Conference: recommended that FAO collaborate with the African Timber Organisation in planning a Workshop for the Central African Region, similar to those which were scheduled for the Southern and Eastern African Sub-Regions in collaboration with IPGRI, ICRAF, SADC and IGAD.
For example, in the Southern African Development Community region, limited collaboration among parallel CCA and DRR organizations caused the dispersion of CCA and DRR activities and a problematic resource allocation (Becker et al. 2013).
This paper is developed as part of a comprehensive funded research project of the National Priorities Research Program, QNRF-Qatar National Research Fund NPRPP 7-960-5-135), enTypologiesvestinating Housing Typologies in Multicultural Societies of the Gulf Region, a collaboration between University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and Qatar University, Doha.
This unprecedented region-wide collaboration, initiated through $10 million in grants from the Getty Foundation, includes more than 60 cultural partners, 60+ exhibitions, scores of galleries, and an eleven-day performance art festival.
