When it comes to health issues, the need for cross-sector collaboration has been deemed a “no brainer” by leaders such as Timothy Evans, Director of Health, Nutrition, and Population at the World Bank.
"The Intersector Project brought together unformed thoughts, helping to better illustrate how the success of the GSP can be translated into a model of sustainability for all sectors of our Department."
For many of our leaders, communicating goals with financial supporters or external partners and providing progress reports allowed them to build trust and continue a project that may have otherwise stalled.
"There is a need — and this is something that is some of the most important work that’s been done at the Center for Business and Government over the last decade — for approaches that transcend."
Summers’ talk was much less about abstract theories than it was about understanding the challenges facing the economy and developing practical solutions.
The first step of solving a problem that spans sectors is to decide which strategy holds the most promise, and if that strategy is collaboration, the second and crucial step is choosing tools from The Intersector Project Toolkit.
"This is why strategy must be co-created and co-evolve among multiple organizations, rather than be shaped independently."
“From a cross-sector perspective, the principles also bridge the policy-practice gap by serving as a comprehensive framework for food and agriculture companies to collaborate with governments, UN agencies and civil society organisations.”
There is clear potential for intersector collaboration to foster infrastructure jobs, both directly through technical education programs like P-TECH, and indirectly through projects requiring infrastructure design and maintenance, like Colton Crossing.
We wondered: Could the lessons from Shape Up Sommerville be ramped up exponentially to reach children across America? ChildObesity180 is striving to answer that question.