Background: The success of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is predicated on multisectoral collaboration (MSC), and the COVID-19 pandemic makes it more urgent to learn how this can be done better. Complex challenges facing countries, such as COVID-19, cut across health, education, environment, financial and other sectors. Addressing these challenges requires the range of responsible sectors and intersecting services - across health, education, social and financial protection, economic development, law enforcement, among others - transform the way they work together towards shared goals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Childhood development milestones are essential skills that define how children participate in their environment socially, physically, and intellectually. A culturally-sensible and environmentally-appropriate tool is needed to assess their performance and detect disabilities at an early stage.
Method: This observational study aimed to create reference charts of performances among healthy rural and semi-rural Cambodian children aged 0-83 months for each milestone using the Denver II-based Cambodian Development Milestone Assessment Tool (cDMAT).
describe how Cambodia’s national poverty identification system, IDPoor, has provided a nexus for different sectors’ contributions to maternal and child health among the poor
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThere is an urgent need for an evidence base to inform the implementation of disability inclusive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) policy and programming to address women with disabilities' largely unattained SRH rights. This paper presents findings from a qualitative study on the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women with disabilities in rural Cambodia. The findings highlight three critical steps to enhance the physical, communicative and financial accessibility of SRHR information and services.
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