Creating a collective impact on childhood obesity: Lessons from the SCOPE initiative

Amed, Shazhan; Naylor, Patti-Jean; Pinkney, Susan; Shea, Stephanie; Mâsse, Louise C.; Berg, Stephen; Collet, Jean‐Paul; Higgins, Joan

doi:10.17269/cjph.106.5114

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“…Examples from Three Thematic CI Areas Thematically, most of the reviewed articles consisted of CI initiatives related to (1) children's nutrition, food, and obesity. For example, enhancing healthy eating and breastfeeding, healthy food consumption, obesity reduction, and assessing the impacts of nutrition-related CI initiatives provided the primary focus for the majority of the reviewed CI initiatives (Amed et al 2015(Amed et al , 2016Blake-Lamb et al 2018;Bonnevie et al 2020;Grumbach et al 2017;Leruth et al 2017;Hermann et al 2017;Meinen et al 2016). All CI initiatives related to food and nutrition, except for one which dealt with breastfeeding promotion (Leruth et al 2017), covered multiple regions, and included local partners.…”

Section: Multiregional and Local Partnerships And Their Their Backbonmentioning

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Collective Impact Partnership and Backbone Organizations as Enablers of Children’s Well-Being

Virtanen¹,

Ristikari²,

Niemelä³

2020

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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In this entry, the question of partnership is approached from a perspective centered around the creation of a common agenda based on trust and from the children's point of view. Partnership and collaboration have traditionally been viewed as mechanisms to create bridges between organizations and institutions from the private, public, and nongovernmental sectors in order to enhance funder collaboratives, public-private partnerships, multistakeholder initiatives, social sector networks, and collective impact initiatives. It was not however until Kania and Kramer's (2011) seminal work on collective impact when this subject came to be viewed as a developmental process aiming at the creation of a common agenda and mutually agreed activities and consisting of five integral parts: a common agenda, shared measurement systems, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and backbone support organizations. This entry, based on a systematic review of the topic, maintains that partnershipapproached from the point of view of children and through the lens of collective impactconstitutes a crucial mechanism in the creation of safe and comprehensive wellbeing for children. Thus, this entryusing Kania and Kramer's (2011) definition of collective impact and focusing on the structure of partnerships and the nature of trust in organizations as the prerequisite for partnershipadvocates the importance of the UN SDG17 principle as the bringer of inclusive society built upon principles and values, a shared vision, and shared goals that place people at the center of human endeavor.

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Section: Multiregional and Local Partnerships And Their Their Backbonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collective Impact Partnership and Backbone Organizations as Enablers of Children’s Well-Being

Virtanen¹,

Ristikari²,

Niemelä³

2020

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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“…CI is presented as a high‐performing structured approach for cross‐sector collaboration to achieve large‐scale social impact (Hanleybrown, Kania, & Kramer, ). The approach has been used in a broad variety of settings and to address a wide range of problems, from poverty reduction to obesity prevention (Amed et al, ; Dipankui, ; Flood, Minkler, Hennessey Lavery, Estrada, & Falbe, ; Garber & Adams, ; Grumbach et al, ; Hoey, Colasanti, Pirog, & Shapiro, ; Smart, ; Thompson & Jocius, ). The CI approach can apply to local, national, and regional/global level initiatives (Hanleybrown et al, ; Patscheke, Barmettler, Herman, Overdyke, & Pfitzer, ).…”

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Enhancing governance and strengthening advocacy for policy change of large Collective Impact initiatives

Michaud-Létourneau

Gayard

Mathisen³

et al. 2019

Maternal & Child Nutrition

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Nutrition issues are increasingly being addressed through global partnerships and multi‐sectoral initiatives. Ensuring effective governance of these initiatives is instrumental for achieving large‐scale impact. The Collective Impact (CI) approach is an insightful framework that can be used to guide and assess the effectiveness of this governance. Despite the utility and widespread use of this approach, two gaps are identified: a limited understanding of the implications of expansion for an initiative operating under the conditions of CI and a lack of attention to advocacy for policy change in CI initiatives. In this paper, a case study was undertaken in which the CI lens was applied to the advocacy efforts of Alive & Thrive (A&T), UNICEF and partners. The initiative expanded into a regional movement and achieved meaningful policy changes in infant and young child feeding policies in seven countries in Southeast Asia. These efforts are examined in order to address the two gaps identified in the CI approach. The objectives of the paper are (a) to examine the governance of this initiative and the process of expansion from a national to a regional, multilayered initiative, with attention to challenges, adaptations, and key elements, and (b) to compare advocacy in the A&T–UNICEF initiative and in typical CI initiatives and gain insight into how the practice of advocacy for policy change can be strengthened in CI initiatives.

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“…Seven Canadian case examples were identified and prioritized for discussion and analysis based on a population health perspective. The cases target childhood obesity (Amed et al 2015), the SDOH in a large urban setting (Mahamoud et al 2013), watershed management and conservation activities for health (Bunch 2016), poverty reduction (FSG 2013), mental health and addictions (Provincial Support System Program 2014), healthy eating among youth (Shahnazari et al 2016), and patient flow within health care (Esensoy and Carter 2015). The cases illustrate the complex nature of health problems as they stemmed from systemic causes and multiple socioecological levels, included issues between various sectors, and featured elements of complex adaptive systems (Nianogo and Arah 2015).…”

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Systems approaches to population health in Canada: how have they been applied, and what are the insights and future implications for practice?

Zukowski

Davidson²,

Yates

2019

Can J Public Health

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Objectives Systems approaches are promising yet under-utilized methods for tackling complex public health problems. This paper explores how systems approaches are understood in the public health literature, how they have been applied in Canada, the insights, and implications for future practice. Methods A rapid review of the literature, including a content analysis and cross-case comparison, was conducted. It was used to distinguish concepts of systems approaches and identify case examples of the application of systems approaches in Canada. Seven cases with a population health perspective (non-health care related) were prioritized for analysis. Results Systems approaches are a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods that aim to understand a system of interest. Most case examples demonstrated systems thinking methods. Systems science methods were applied predominantly in health care. Only one case of systems science for the social determinants of health was found. Findings indicate that systems approaches were utilized because traditional methods were proving ineffective. These approaches can introduce new ways of thinking, enable collaboration across diverse stakeholders, identify where best to focus action and with what intensity, and provide more robust evidence for decision-making. Conclusion There is a need to build capacity among practitioners for more widespread adoption and use of systems approaches. Population health professionals need to move beyond reductionist approaches, generate more case examples, and use an iterative evaluation approach that prioritizes the application of processes. This will provide further insight into the usefulness of systems approaches as effective methods to address complex health problems.

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Creating a collective impact on childhood obesity: Lessons from the SCOPE initiative

Abstract: OBJECTIVES:We describe the processes used in SCOPE, a community-based participatory research (CBPR) initiative, to achieve multisectoral engagement and collective action to prevent childhood obesity.

Cited by 24 publications

References 38 publications

Collective Impact Partnership and Backbone Organizations as Enablers of Children’s Well-Being

Collective Impact Partnership and Backbone Organizations as Enablers of Children’s Well-Being

Enhancing governance and strengthening advocacy for policy change of large Collective Impact initiatives

Systems approaches to population health in Canada: how have they been applied, and what are the insights and future implications for practice?

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