You've hit on something incredibly important, particularly in the area of nutrition, because we know the only way we are going to make progress is for governments themselves to prioritize this and for it not to be siloed. Nutrition has been forgotten and underfunded, in part because it gets shoved off somewhere and it is not prioritized. There is a movement afoot globally called the Scaling Up Nutrition movement. Canada has been a leader on that, but governments around the world in 21 developing countries have signed on.
It is not just a sign-on campaign that means nothing. Somebody has to be a leader within those governments to say that nutrition, for example, is cross-sectoral. It is cross-departmental. It fits within agriculture, economic development, and health: a variety of divisions within a government mandate and operations.
There is a real move about horizontality and synergies and ensuring they are not siloed, because when things are siloed they don't get done. You have hit on something incredibly important. Canada and the world are recognizing that siloed interventions can be problematic.
Having said that, we need to be cautious that when we try to incorporate something into everything that it doesn't get lost again, right? Using this as an example, vitamin A, which is responsible for saving millions of children's lives, has been integrated into what are called child health days. Those campaigns happen a couple of times a year. So it's a little about not throwing out the baby with the bathwater to ensure that the low-cost, high-impact interventions that breach the most vulnerable also don't get lost in all of it.
A bit of a game needs to be played to ensure that it is recognized as important across spectrums but also that we don't lose progress or traction on the ground that we've already covered.