Excerpts from the report:
Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN) conducted research to provide the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) with a report that includes a retrospective review and forward looking analysis of the federal/provincial/territorial joint management infrastructure (JMI) that oversees the Community Action Program for Children (CAPC) and the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP) in communities across the country.
The study conducted four key pieces of research and analysis:
- A retrospective review of the CAPC/CPNP infrastructure as it was constituted under the original protocols, with a description of how it has evolved over the last ten years;
- A profile of the current federal/provincial/territorial infrastructure, with particular attention to the mechanisms that provinces and territories have instituted to respond to local needs;
- An analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities (SWOT) affecting the current infrastructure for the CAPC and the CPNP; and
- A forward-looking assessment of the current CAPC/CPNP joint management infrastructure as a federal/provincial/territorial mechanism for influencing and responding to decisions, policy changes and program improvement at the national, provincial/territorial, regional, and community levels.