Multistakeholder Collaboration for Healthy Living Toolkit for Joint Action

The 'Multistakeholder Collaboration for Healthy Living Toolkit for Joint Action' is a practical guide developed by the World Economic Forum and the Pan American Health Organization. It outlines a six-stage framework—Understand, Align and Design, Mobilize, Build and Train, Deliver, and Evaluate and Sustain—to help diverse stakeholders (public sector, private sector, civil society, and academia) coordinate health interventions. The toolkit provides specific tools for population segmentation, healthcare infrastructure assessment, behaviour change design, governance structuring, and the measurement of social return on investment (SROI).

• The toolkit identifies six primary Healthy Living risk dimensions that are interconnected and should be addressed comprehensively: unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, depression, and lack of medical screening and care.
• To assess local challenges, the toolkit suggests segmenting populations by age (0-5, 6-17, 18-25, 26-50, 51-65, >65), gender, and income level to identify where risk factor prevalence is significantly above thresholds.
• Effective intervention design requires integrating behavioural science tools, specifically focusing on 'consequences' (rewards, incentives, peer feedback), which are considered four times more effective than 'antecedents' (education, alerts) in achieving lasting behaviour change.
• The framework emphasizes a 'whole-of-society' approach, requiring the involvement of the public sector for policy and infrastructure, the private sector for resources and expertise, civil society for community mobilization, and academia for knowledge and methodology.
• The toolkit proposes a specific governance structure consisting of a Steering Group for overall guidance and budget decisions, a Project Management Office for day-to-day operations, a Project Team for execution, and Advisors for expert input.
• To ensure momentum and mitigate risks, the toolkit recommends establishing a 'Championship Spine'—a network of influential individuals across partner organizations who act as role models and communicate progress.
• The guide introduces the System-Return on Investment (SROI) as a metric to compare the effectiveness of different actions by calculating the net present value of financial and social benefits against total costs.
• To maintain collaboration effectiveness, the toolkit suggests using a 'Health Check' based on the Net Promoter Score (NPS) to measure stakeholder satisfaction and identify 'pain points'.

APA

World Economic Forum (2013). Multistakeholder Collaboration for Healthy Living Toolkit for Joint Action. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_HE_HealthyLiving_Toolkit_Annex_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_Annex_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 = jan, url = {http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_HE_HealthyLiving_Toolkit_Annex_2013.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }