Using multistakeholder dialogues to assess policies, programmes and progress for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health

Frost, Laura; Hinton, Rachael; Pratt, Beth Anne; Murray, John; Arscott-Mills, Sharon; Jack, Susan; Andrés, Felipe; Kuruvilla, Shyama

doi:10.2471/blt.16.171710

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“…One motivation for this approach is that in any government numerous actors are engaged in activities relevant to policy coherence, even before any coordinated attempt aimed at improving policy coherence (see, e.g., OECD, , p. 67)). The multistakeholder engagement approach promoted by the 2030 Agenda (see, e.g., Frost et al, for the benefits of such an approach) assumes that identifying relevant actors with valuable contributions precedes any attempt at creating new structures. This is why using “existing co‐ordination mechanisms to steer sustainable development integration” should be prioritized (OECD, , p. 69).…”

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Aligning South Africa's National Development Plan with the 2030 Agenda's Sustainable Development Goals: Guidelines from the Policy Coherence for Development movement

Fourie

2018

Sustainable Development

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Sustainable development depends on coherence between the development policies of recipients and the providers of development assistance. Yet achieving coherence is difficult. This paper examines the extent to which the Policy Coherence for Development movement offers guidelines for aligning national development priorities with global development priorities. This qualitative paper focuses on alignment between South Africa's National Development and its Medium‐Term Strategic Frameworks and the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals. Based on an analysis of policy documents and peer‐reviewed research on the Policy Coherence for Development movement, it is argued that five guidelines might be of relevance for South Africa, namely (i) prioritizing political buy‐in, (ii) safeguarding country ownership of development priorities, (iii) using and improving existing institutional structures and processes, (iv) stimulating cooperation across government departments by using an issue‐based approach and (v) including a long‐term and transnational perspective when considering policy impacts.

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Aligning South Africa's National Development Plan with the 2030 Agenda's Sustainable Development Goals: Guidelines from the Policy Coherence for Development movement

Fourie

2018

Sustainable Development

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“…We prepared a preliminary report and shared it with key stakeholders and the country working group; a multistakeholder review meeting was held in July 2018 in Kabul to appraise and refine the report’s content, suggest additional sources of data, and provide feedback on the process of developing this case study. The multistakeholder review process drew on both the methods used in the first success factors study series 17 and the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health’s guide for multistakeholder dialogues. 18…”

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Scaling up primary health services for improving reproductive, maternal, and child health: a multisectoral collaboration in the conflict setting of Afghanistan

Das

Akseer

Mirzazada

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“…The methods used in the multi-country study included review of literature and context; identification and collation of existing quantitative and qualitative data; key informant interviews and other new data collection as needed; multistakeholder dialogues; and analysis and synthesis of findings [31]. The time and resource commitments corresponded with a similar multistakeholder process conducted in ten low-and middle-income countries in 2014 [32] however, the 2018 series of studies raises pecific considerations for research on MSC.…”

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Specific considerations for research on the effectiveness of multisectoral collaboration: methods and lessons from 12 country case studies

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Asri

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Background The success of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is predicated on multisectoral collaboration (MSC), and the COVID-19 pandemic makes it more urgent to learn how this can be done better. Complex challenges facing countries, such as COVID-19, cut across health, education, environment, financial and other sectors. Addressing these challenges requires the range of responsible sectors and intersecting services – across health, education, social and financial protection, economic development, law enforcement, among others – transform the way they work together towards shared goals. While the necessity of MSC is recognized, research is needed to understand how sectors collaborate, inform how to do so more efficiently, effectively and equitably, and ascertain similarities and differences across contexts. To answer these questions and inform practice, research to strengthen the evidence-base on MSC is critical. Methods This paper draws on a 12-country study series on MSC for health and sustainable development, in the context of the health and rights of women, children and adolescents. It is written by core members of the research coordination and country teams. Issues were analyzed during the study period through ‘real-time’ discussions and structured reporting, as well as through literature reviews and retrospective feedback and analysis at the end of the study. Results We identify four considerations that are unique to MSC research which will be of interest to other researchers, in the context of COVID-19 and beyond: 1) use theoretical frameworks to frame research questions as relevant to all sectors and to facilitate theoretical generalizability and evolution; 2) specifically incorporate sectoral analysis into MSC research methods; 3) develop a core set of research questions, using mixed methods and contextual adaptations as needed, with agreement on criteria for research rigor; and 4) identify shared indicators of success and failure across sectors to assess MSCs. Conclusion In responding to COVID-19 it is evident that effective MSC is an urgent priority. It enables partners from diverse sectors to effectively convene to do more together than alone. Our findings have practical relevance for achieving this objective and contribute to the growing literature on partnerships and collaboration. We must seize the opportunity here to identify remaining knowledge gaps on how diverse sectors can work together efficiently and effectively in different settings to accelerate progress towards achieving shared goals.

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Using multistakeholder dialogues to assess policies, programmes and progress for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health

Cited by 7 publications

References 3 publications

Aligning South Africa's National Development Plan with the 2030 Agenda's Sustainable Development Goals: Guidelines from the Policy Coherence for Development movement

Aligning South Africa's National Development Plan with the 2030 Agenda's Sustainable Development Goals: Guidelines from the Policy Coherence for Development movement

Scaling up primary health services for improving reproductive, maternal, and child health: a multisectoral collaboration in the conflict setting of Afghanistan

Specific considerations for research on the effectiveness of multisectoral collaboration: methods and lessons from 12 country case studies

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