Multistakeholder Collaboration for Healthy Living Toolkit for Joint Action

The document outlines a six-block framework—Understand, Align and Design, Mobilize, Build and Train, Deliver, and Evaluate and Sustain—to guide cross-sector partnerships in improving public health. It emphasizes the need for a systemic approach to address NCD risk factors such as tobacco use, unhealthy diets, and physical inactivity, providing specific tools for situational analysis, stakeholder engagement, and outcome measurement.

• Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the primary cause of death globally and are projected to cause a cumulative output loss of US$ 47 trillion over the next twenty years.
• Multistakeholder collaboration involving public, private, and civil society sectors is presented as the only systematic method to promote Healthy Living because single-sector actions cannot address the multiple interconnected factors influencing health behaviours.
• The toolkit proposes a six-step framework for joint action: 1) Understand (situational analysis), 2) Align and Design (concept development), 3) Mobilize (partner engagement), 4) Build and Train (governance and capacity), 5) Deliver (execution), and 6) Evaluate and Sustain (impact measurement and longevity).
• Effective Healthy Living interventions require a focus on creating 'conducive environments' (both physical and social), applying behavioural science to trigger lasting change, and mobilizing communities through local engagement.
• To manage the complexity of multistakeholder partnerships, the document recommends establishing a 'championship spine'—a network of committed individual supporters across all partner organizations—and using a neutral bridging intermediary to negotiate interests.
• The toolkit advocates for a 'decision-driven' approach to project management, specifically recommending the RAPID® framework to assign clear decision rights (Recommend, Agree, Perform, Input, Decide) and avoid delays.
• Sustainability of health initiatives depends on four critical dimensions: an effective team with committed leaders, long-term financial and non-financial resources, documented repeatable processes, and continuous learning loops.
• The document highlights the UK Salt Reduction initiative as a successful case where evidence-based analysis identified that 80% of salt intake was 'out of consumers’ hands', leading to a strategy that targeted the food industry for product reformulation.

APA

World Economic Forum (2013). Multistakeholder Collaboration for Healthy Living Toolkit for Joint Action. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_HE_HealthyLiving_Toolkit_2013.pdf

Chicago

World Economic Forum. Multistakeholder Collaboration for Healthy Living Toolkit for Joint Action. 2013. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_HE_HealthyLiving_Toolkit_2013.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldeconomicforum2013multistakeholder, author = {{World Economic Forum}}, title = {{Multistakeholder Collaboration for Healthy Living Toolkit for Joint Action}}, institution = {World Economic Forum}, year = {2013}, month = mar, url = {http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_HE_HealthyLiving_Toolkit_2013.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }