intersektorielt
Intersektorielt refers to approaches that cut across traditional sector boundaries to address issues that span multiple domains, such as health, education, housing, and employment. It involves coordinated planning, shared goals, and pooled resources among public agencies, NGOs, and private partners, often with input from communities and service users.
The concept emerged from public health and development policy and has been popularized by frameworks such
Core elements include joint problem framing, integrated policy design, formal agreements or memoranda of understanding, cross-sector
Common applications include reducing health disparities through housing and transport interventions; coordinated responses to homelessness, child
Benefits cited in policy literature include greater effectiveness, efficiency, equity, and the ability to address upstream
Challenges include entrenched bureaucratic silos, fragmented funding, incompatible performance metrics, data access and privacy considerations, power
In practice, intersektorielt work is associated with frameworks like HiAP and multi-sectoral coordinating bodies in cities,