Global strategies and local implementation of health and health-related SDGs: Lessons from consultation in countries across five regions

Authors

Sameen Siddiqi, Aga Khan UniversityFollow
Wafa Aftab, Aga Khan UniversityFollow
Fahad Javaid Siddiqui, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Luis Huicho, Centro de Inveswtigaciónn en Salud Materna e Infantil, Lima, Peru
Roman Mogilevskii, University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Peter Friberg, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Johanna Lindgren-Garcia, Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation (SIGHT), Stockholm, Sweden
Sara Causevic, Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation (SIGHT), Stockholm, Sweden
Anil Khamis, Aga Khan UniversityFollow
Mashal Murad Shah, Aga Khan UniversityFollow
Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Aga Khan UniversityFollow

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Article

Department

Community Health Sciences; Women and Child Health

Abstract

Evidence on early achievements, challenges and opportunities would help low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) accelerate implementation of health and health-related sustainable development goals (HHSDGs). A series of country-specific and multicountry consultative meetings were conducted during 2018-2019 that involved 15 countries across five regions to determine the status of implementation of HHSDGs. Almost 120 representatives from health and non-health sectors participated. The assessment relied on a multidomain analytical framework drawing on existing public health policy frameworks. During the first 5 years of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) era, participating LMICs from South and Central Asia, East Africa and Latin America demonstrated growing political commitment to HHSDGs, with augmentation of multisectoral institutional arrangements, strengthening of monitoring systems and engagement of development partners. On the other hand, there has been limited involvement of civic society representatives and academia, relatively few capacity development initiatives were in place, a well-crafted communication strategy was missing, and there is limited evidence of additional domestic financing for implementing HHSDGs. While the momentum towards universal health coverage is notable, explicit linkages with non-health SDGs and integrated multisectoral implementation strategies are lacking. The study offers messages to LMICs that would allow for a full decade of accelerated implementation of HHSDGs, and points to the need for more implementation research in each domain and for testing interventions that are likely to work before scale-up.

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Publication (Name of Journal)

BMJ Global Health

Recommended Citation

Siddiqi, S., Aftab, W., Siddiqui, F. J., Huicho, L., Mogilevskii, R., Friberg, P., Lindgren-Garcia, J., Causevic, S., Khamis, A., Shah, M. M., Bhutta, Z. A. (2020). Global strategies and local implementation of health and health-related SDGs: Lessons from consultation in countries across five regions. BMJ Global Health, 5(9), e002859.
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