Global Partners in Care, an organization dedicated to partnerships between palliative care programmes worldwide, organised a meeting to bring together global and regional leaders worldwide designed around a pre-survey of stakeholders. This voice of stakeholder survey results and qualitative interviews, were used to design a two-day Collaborating for Global Impact workshop (May 13-14) aimed to disrupt the status quo, challenging this group of global palliative care leaders with human-centred design and strategy techniques to generate innovative ideas that accelerate progress towards their vision of an ideal future 15 years from now.
The aim was to co-create novel concepts and actionable pathways built on a commitment to radical collaboration and a shared understanding of existing work and networks.
Four small groups each tackled one strategic priority identified as most important before this event. Teams sought to link these with the highest ranking gaps, working through strategy worksheets that guided them to contend with important tensions, tradeoffs, customer needs, and prioritisation to design a catalyst project. Concepts were shared across groups, celebrated, and built upon.
Participants were asked to complete worksheets that outlined existing palliative care networks, associations, and even informal collaboration meetings to better understand the various global coordination mechanisms.
Through the voice of stakeholder activities before the workshop, facilitators identified key gaps between the current state and the group’s envisioned ideal future of global palliative care.
The top 4 strategic priorities were voted on in the voice of stakeholder survey before the workshop. These were:
- Unified & Amplified Global Voice
Considerations for a cohesive & influential global message for palliative care advocacy. This may include coordinated efforts to elevate palliative care in global health discourse, engage policymakers, raise public awareness, etc.
- Implementing Actionable Next Steps
Bridging the gap between research, policy, and real-world implementation. This may include strategies to ensure that progress in palliative care (e.g., integration into universal health coverage) translates into practical, context-specific actions at the global, regional, and national levels.
- Knowledge Sharing & Exchange to Foster Innovation
The dissemination and accessibility of research, technical guidance, and best practices. This may include fostering peer-to-peer learning, network development, education, long-term funding strategies, adaptation to evolving global health landscapes, etc.
- National Level Support & Engagement
Effective engagement and collaboration with national-level stakeholders. This may include engagement around policy, advocacy, implementation, etc.
Participants identified their interest in further developing the 4 concepts following the workshop, with funding from GPIC via Elea Institute. Task teams will carry these forward, with the next in-person touchpoint planned at the APCA Conference in Botswana in September.
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