Advancing Efficient and Timely Community Access to SARS-CoV-2 Serology Testing in Europe: a Multi-stakeholder Consensus

Background: Currently there is no clear consensus on the use, value, benefits, and impact of serology testing as part of a comprehensive SARS-CoV-2 testing strategy. The lack of clarity on the use of this strategy in policies and guidelines may have serious implications on the efforts to curb the pandemic. The aim of this paper is to elaborate an experts and community consensus on the use of serology testing as an effective method to respond to and mitigate the impact of the pandemic. The recommendations herein can help build community awareness and guide advocacy strategies. Methods: A desk review was conducted to inform a working document that was subject to a multistage process of validation and feedback by a group of renowned experts. The multi-stakeholder group of experts, representing the European and international levels, convened to inform and validate the recommendations. Results: The consensus offered eight policy recommendations organized in two main themes. The first group of recommendations provides guidance on the role and value of serology testing to contain and understand the COVID-19 pandemic. The second group targets health system strengthening aspects necessary to support the appropriate delivery of serology testing. Conclusions: Recommendations seek to indicate how SARS-CoV-2 serology testing may positively impact national health systems, country economies and local communities. The pertinence of the recommendations is to communities in Europe, and beyond, and relevant to multiple stakeholders. Given the rapidly changing scenario, this set of recommendations should be considered a live document.

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Advancing Efficient and Timely Community Access to SARS-CoV-2 Serology Testing in Europe: a Multi-stakeholder Consensus

10.22541/au.161738493.38184452/v2 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Rafael Cantón ◽

Constance Delaugerre ◽

Catherine Hankins ◽

Wame Jallow ◽

Uwe Gerd Liebert ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health System Strengthening ◽

Policy Recommendations ◽

Testing Strategy ◽

Multiple Stakeholders ◽

Multi Stakeholder ◽

Stakeholder Consensus ◽

The Impact ◽

Community Access ◽

Desk Review ◽

Serology Testing

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AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF INDIAN INSURANCE INDUSTRY POST GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS

GBAMS- Vidushi ◽

10.26829/vidushi.v6i01-02.9723 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 6 (01-02) ◽

Author(s):

Anis Ur Rehman ◽

Yasir Arafat Elahi ◽

Sushma .

Keyword(s):

Financial Crisis ◽

Global Financial Crisis ◽

Insurance Industry ◽

Primary Data ◽

Policy Recommendations ◽

Insurance Sector ◽

The World ◽

The Impact ◽

The New Deal

India has recently emerged as a major political and economic power in the world. The financial crisis that engulfed the world in 2008 needed developing countries like India to lead the rescue and recovery, instead of G7 westerns countries who dealt with such crisis in the past. Recently, discussions and negotiations are going amongst G20 countries regarding a new global financial architecture (G-20 Summit, 2008). The outcome will affect the relevant industries in India and hence it is a public interest issue for the actuarial profession in the country. Increased and more intrusive and costly regulations and red tapes are likely to be a part of the new deal (Economic Survey 2009-10). The objective of this paper is to study the perception of higher level authorities in Insurance sector regarding the role of regulator in minimizing the impact of global financial crisis. The primary data has been collected from 200 authorities in insurance industry. The data has been analyzed with statistical tools like MS-Excel. On the basis of the findings, various measures and policy recommendations for insurers have been suggested to minimize the impact of crisis.

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26.A. Workshop: Assessing the role of policies and actions to address childhood obesity

European Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1093/eurpub/ckaa165.1225 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽

Author(s):

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Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Childhood Obesity ◽

Stakeholder Engagement ◽

Special Focus ◽

Policy Options ◽

Sustainable Solutions ◽

Relevant Evidence ◽

Multi Stakeholder ◽

The Impact

Abstract Childhood obesity has grown to become one of the most dramatic features of the global obesity epidemic, with long-term consequences. The spread of obesity has been fueled by changes in social norms and living environments that have shaped individual behaviours making them conducive to excessive and imbalanced nutrition, sedentary lifestyles, and ultimately obesity and associated diseases. The STOP project will aim to generate scientifically sound, novel and policy-relevant evidence on the factors that have contributed to the spread of childhood obesity in European countries and on the effects of alternative technological and organisational solutions and policy options available to address the problem. STOP will translate the evidence gathered and generated into indicators and measurements, policy briefs and toolkits and multi-stakeholder frameworks. A special focus of STOP is understanding the stakeholders' networks and drivers of stakeholders' action. STOP will establish new ways for policy-relevant evidence to be generated, made available and used in the design and implementation of effective and sustainable solutions for childhood obesity at the EU, national and local levels. Each of the policy work packages will: Produce evidence syntheses and impact simulations for different policy approaches;Assess selected policy approaches and actions in children cohorts and other relevant settings;Devise policy toolkits and policy guidance to support the adoption and implementation of specific actions by relevant actors;Establish a country-based European accountability and monitoring framework in each policy area. The workshop aims to: Showcase the impact of different policy options evaluated throughout the STOP project;Increase participants' understanding and awareness of the opportunities and challenges associated with the implementation of selected policies;Increase awareness of public health professionals of the importance of overcoming siloes in identifying and implementing public health policies;Increase the understanding of multi-stakeholder engagement. The discussion will explore the role of stakeholders across different policy areas. We will explore the different definitions of “stakeholders” and “multi-stakeholders” engagement. This will also be an opportunity to explore some of the benefits, risks and challenges around stakeholder engagement, and explore what are the different types of stakeholders involved in these policies as well as their roles. The workshop will offer an opportunity to: Inform participants about existing physical activity, regulatory and fiscal policies to address childhood obesity;Inform participants about new, innovative EU-level projects that aim to address childhood obesity;Outline preliminary findings of the STOP project with regards to the effectiveness of the evaluated policies;Identify some of the gaps and limitations of existing policies and discuss some of the steps to ensure successful policy implementation. Key messages Present new evidence on what policy approaches work in addressing key determinants of childhood obesity. Showcase findings on the attitudes of different stakeholders towards obesity policies, and debate the benefits, risks and challenges of multi-stakeholder engagement.

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Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue for Policy Recommendations on Algorithmic Fairness

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society - SMSociety '18 ◽

10.1145/3217804.3217952 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Helena Webb ◽

Ansgar Koene ◽

Menisha Patel ◽

Elvira Perez Vallejos

Keyword(s):

Policy Recommendations ◽

Stakeholder Dialogue ◽

Multi Stakeholder

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Promoting Scale-Up Across a Global Project Platform: Lessons from the Evidence to Action Project

Global Implementation Research and Applications ◽

10.1007/s43477-021-00013-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Laura Ghiron ◽

Eric Ramirez-Ferrero ◽

Rita Badiani ◽

Regina Benevides ◽

Alexis Ntabona ◽

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Keyword(s):

Family Planning ◽

Scale Up ◽

Scaling Up ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Health System Strengthening ◽

Country Level ◽

Look Ahead ◽

Republic Of The Congo ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

Multi Stakeholder

AbstractThe USAID-funded flagship family planning service delivery project named Evidence to Action (E2A) worked from 2011 to 2021 to improve family planning and reproductive health for women and girls across seventeen nations in sub-Saharan Africa using a “scaling-up mindset.” The paper discusses three key lessons emerging from the project’s experience with applying ExpandNet’s systematic approach to scale up. The methodology uses ExpandNet/WHO’s scaling-up framework and guidance tools to design and implement pilot or demonstration projects in ways that look ahead to their future scale-up; develop a scaling-up strategy with local stakeholders; and then strategically manage the scaling-up process. The paper describes how a scaling-up mindset was engendered, first within the project’s technical team in Washington and then how they subsequently sought to build capacity at the country level to support scale-up work throughout E2A’s portfolio of activities. The project worked with local multi-stakeholder resource teams, often led by government officials, to equip them to lead the scale-up of family planning and health system strengthening interventions. Examples from project experience in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda illustrating key concepts are discussed. E2A also established a community of practice on systematic approaches to scale up as a platform for sharing learning across a variety of technical agencies engaged in scale-up work and to create learning opportunities for interacting with thought leaders around critical scale-up issues.

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coreNASH: Multi‐stakeholder Consensus on Core Outcomes for Decision Making About Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Treatment

Hepatology Communications ◽

10.1002/hep4.1678 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Elizabeth Clearfield ◽

Veronica Miller ◽

Joseph Nadglowski ◽

Katherine Barradas ◽

Jennifer Al Naber ◽

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Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis ◽

Core Outcomes ◽

Multi Stakeholder ◽

Stakeholder Consensus

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Application of Multi-Actor Multi-Criteria Analysis for Transition Management in Energy Communities

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13041783 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 1783

Author(s):

Maria Luisa Lode ◽

Geert te Boveldt ◽

Cathy Macharis ◽

Thierry Coosemans

Keyword(s):

Social Representation ◽

Added Value ◽

Final Decision ◽

Transition Management ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Current Application ◽

Low Carbon Economy ◽

Multi Criteria Analysis ◽

Multi Stakeholder ◽

The Impact

Energy communities (ECs) play a role in the transition towards a low-carbon economy by 2050 and receive increasing attention from stakeholders within the energy sector. To foster ECs, transition management (TM) is a promising managerial approach to steer and guide the transition towards more sustainable practices. However, TM lacks a consistent methodology that addresses the criticism of the current application. To investigate what a structured and replicable TM approach for ECs can look like, this paper applies the multi-actor multi-criteria analysis (MAMCA), a participative multi-criteria decision method, to a case study EC in the Netherlands involving various stakeholders. The impact of the application on power relations, the political sphere, sustainability conceptualization, guidance of transitions, and representation was analyzed. MAMCA was found useful for multi-stakeholder settings seen in potential ECs, offering a unifying methodology for the practical application of TM. In the EC setting, the added value of MAMCA within TM lies more in the social representation, insight into stakeholder viewpoints, and communication rather than in final decision-making.

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Governance of differential stakeholder interests in supply chains and networks

Journal on Chain and Network Science ◽

10.3920/jcns2013.1001 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 99-105 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

E.F.M. Wubben ◽

H.J. Bremmers ◽

P.T.M. Ingenbleek ◽

A.E.J. Wals

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Business Models ◽

Production Systems ◽

Stakeholder Management ◽

Data Gathering ◽

Health Claims ◽

Stakeholder Dialogue ◽

Stakeholder Interests ◽

Multi Stakeholder ◽

The Impact

Competing frames and interests regarding food provision and resource allocation, adding to the increased global interdependencies, necessitate agri-food companies and institutions to engage themselves in very diverse multi-stakeholder settings. To develop new forms of interaction, and governance, researchers with very different backgrounds in social sciences try to align, or at least share, research trajectories. This first paper in a special issue on governance of differential stakeholder interests discusses, first, different usages of stakeholder categories, second, the related intersubjectivity in sciences, third, an rough sketch of the use of stakeholder management in different social sciences. Social science researchers study a wide variety of topics, such as individual stakeholder impact on new business models, stakeholder group responses to health claims, firm characteristics explaining multi-stakeholder dialogue, and the impact of multi-stakeholder dialogue on promoting production systems, and on environmental innovations. Interestingly, researchers use very different methods for data gathering and data analysis.

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Platform Capitalism ‘Made in China’? Intelligent Manufacturing, Taobao Villages and the Restructuring of Work

Science Technology and Society ◽

10.1177/0971721819841985 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 199-217 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Boy Lüthje

Keyword(s):

Intelligent Manufacturing ◽

Value Chains ◽

Policy Recommendations ◽

Employment Policy ◽

Social Shaping Of Technology ◽

Social Shaping ◽

Made In China ◽

The Impact ◽

Conditions Of Employment ◽

Made In

The article examines the development of advanced digital manufacturing (as outlined in the ‘Made-in-China 2025’ government plan) from the perspective of the changing socio-technical paradigms of production. The analysis focuses on the transformations of value chains and work, based on theories of social shaping of technology, regulation theory and regimes of production. Analytically, the author proposes to distinguish between ‘production-driven’ and ‘distribution-driven’ pathways of manufacturing digitalisation. The transformation of semi-rural industrial areas (‘Taobao villages’, named after China’s largest e-commerce platform Taobao) into mass production clusters for e-commerce is depicted as a paradigmatic model of distribution-driven transformation and as a characteristic Chinese strategy in this field. The article examines the impact on industry supply chains and work, leading to ever-more precarious conditions of employment. Policy recommendations focus on local strategies to stabilise supply chain structures and working conditions, as an alternative to the present top-down approaches to manufacturing modernisation in China.

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