Teams needed a multisectoral approach to their research design and implementation owing to the multidimensional features of the issues they studied and the diversity of actors required to turn their research into action.
We can help by making community health programs an integral part of the health system (particularly in rural areas) and by making sure health workers' preservice education covers such timely topics as how to work with internally displaced populations, how to promote resilience in their communities, and how to pursue multisectoral interventions.
Cote d'Ivoire and Liberia were, however, taking steps to establish, within the framework of their involvement in the SUN movement, a multisectoral, multi-stakeholder coordination mechanism for nutrition activities.
In fact, for several common chronic diseases, this approach will be facilitated by the current implementation, in Quebec, of multisectoral interventions to act on their determinants and of group prescriptions for medications and tests.
However, little evidence exists for their effectiveness and underlying mechanisms, especially with regard to multisectoral, multidisciplinary evidence in knowledge mobilisation.
We recognized from the beginning of this process that addressing NCDs and their integration in the health services arena would require multisectoral collaboration and cooperation between diverse stakeholder groups.
Multisectoral Many of the obstacles that keep girls from enjoying their right to complete their education are found far from school – unsafe water, communities ravaged by HIV/AIDS, families caught in poverty's grip.
The Early Childhood Development Group of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a multisectoral body initiated and convened by UNICEF, concluded their meeting today with unanimous agreement on an Action Plan that would implement the Strategy for Early Childhood Development adopted in 2007.
This is necessary not only for their future financial viability but also for future legitimacy as multisectoral partnerships, particularly if seeking to fulfil participatory promises rather than limiting and instrumentalising the participation of some actors for its own legitimacy purposes.
