Designing collaborative capacity enhancement: A case of collaboration in waste management in normal times and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Keywords:
COVID-19, waste management, health-care waste, collaboration, collaborative capacityAbstract
An increasing amount of waste is a universal issue that matters to many countries in the world including Thailand. Recently, the amount of global waste has tremendously increased due to the Covid-19 pandemic. A key solution to this problem is collaboration in waste management. This study conducted focus group discussions to elicit suggestions for enhancing collaborative capacities for waste management, both in normal times and during the COVID-19 epidemic in Thailand. The study produced the following recommendations: (1) Enhance knowledge, boundary-spanning, policy, and incentive capacity; (2) Determine how best to use existing resources to facilitate collaboration; (3) Define Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of waste management collaboration; and (4) Create a reporting system and convene a multi-sector forum for monitoring and evaluation of the collaboration.
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