Actions to Build Capacity, Establish Processes, and Promote Synergy at the Subnational Level
| Create capacity within district health management teams to include all health professionals in one comprehensive system with management and deployment coordinated, as necessary | Promote the capacity for rapid response with teams capable of investigating and responding to outbreaks. |
| Strengthen systems that promote strategic production, institutionalization, (re)deployment, and retention of human resources in alignment with needs that are defined at both national and subnational levels. | |
| Facilitate and implement models that integrate public health and health systems for optimal leverage and strategic use of human resources. | |
| Institute structures that sustain and advance one-health technical capacities as well as those that strengthen programs at academic and training institutions. | |
| Empower district and regional managers to promote transparency concerning workloads and planning among all health professionals regardless of current supervisory or management structures. | |
| Build sustainable capacity to develop and implement laws, regulations, and policies within each country | Strengthen links between the community, civil society, and the private sector to increase transparency and accountability. |
| Establish a participatory process that deliberately includes and empowers subnational authorities in the policy development and implementation process. | |
| Support a culture of evidence-based decision making, collaboration, and improved information sharing | Support strategic improvements in methods used to integrate health information systems including relevant health surveillance data. |
| Strengthen reporting systems and establish agreements, protocols, processes, and regulations that govern reporting at the country, regional, and global levels. | |
| Institute robust facility-level protocols and programs to prevent and control infections | Support regular training and review of protocols in all health-related facilities. |
| Combat antimicrobial resistance by supporting the translation of national rational use guidelines for medicines to subnational level actions. | |
| Address human and animal health, food production, and environmental aspects through multisectoral engagement and collaboration. |