WEBINAR REPORT THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN MULTI-SECTORAL COLLABORATION IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19

Abstract

OVERVIEW COVID-19 has damaged humankinds in almost dimensions ranging from health, economy growth, food security and etc. This unprecedented pandemic cannot be handled by a government only, but requires unity of all stakeholders including non-government organizations, civil society organizations and youth to fight against COVID-19 and its impacts. Hence, COVID-19has demonstrated that multi-sectoral collaboration approach is necessary for the time of crisis. However, despite of the well- accepted approach, implementing and maintaining this approach during and post COVID-19 is a challenge. Moreover, it is often found that multi-sectoral collaboration fades away after a crisis is back to a normal. The ultimate objective of a webinar series is to seek answers on how to make multi-sectoral collaboration sustainable, what enabling factors for multisectoral collaboration are, how to maintain these factors when COVID-19 situation is getting better and how we apply multi- sectoral collaboration lessons from COVID-19 response to another future crisis. The organizer aims to use the findings to advocate organizations within Thailand and other countries on multi- sectoral collaboration in order to effectively respond future crisis and to achieve SDGs.

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