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  "abstract": "Introduction With 5 years remaining to the 2030 deadline, many low-income countries remain off track to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs), raising questions about their feasibility and contextual fit. In Uganda, progress is uneven and constrained by persistent health and development challenges and weak multisectoral collaboration. Understanding stakeholder views of the SDGs and multisectoral action is important for strengthening implementation in resource-constrained settings. This study explores stakeholder perspectives on the SDGs and multisectoral collaboration for health in Uganda, including perceived systemic enablers and barriers to implementation.Methods We conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with 29 purposively selected health and non-health stakeholders who had participated in a national SDG Synergies workshop. Interviews were conducted in English between December 2021 and March 2022, audio-recorded, transcribed and analysed thematically using an inductive approach.Results Three themes emerged: (1) perceptions and contextual fit of the SDGs, combining optimism about their value as a development roadmap with concerns that they are overly ambitious and insufficiently localised; (2) health and cross-SDG determinants, positioning health as central to development while highlighting inequities linked to poverty, education, and weak sectoral integration; and (3) systemic enablers and constraints, where political commitment, policy alignment and emerging collaboration contrasted with fragmentation, siloed planning, donor-dependent financing, weak accountability and underused data.Conclusions Participants viewed the SDGs as a useful roadmap and accountability tool but insufficiently aligned with Uganda’s implementation realities. Strengthening implementation requires institutionalised coordination and shared accountability, decentralised and locally owned action, diversified domestic resource mobilisation and integrated monitoring and evidence-use mechanisms to translate national commitment into measurable local progress.",
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  "affiliations": [
    "Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden",
    "Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Health, Stockholm, Sweden",
    "Department of Disease Control and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda",
    "School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda"
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      "name": "Daniel Helldén"
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      "name": "Tobias Alfvén"
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      "name": "Rawlance Ndejjo"
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      "name": "Rhoda K Wanyenze"
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      "name": "Irene Wanyana"
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      "name": "Nina Viberg"
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  "doi": "10.1136/bmjph-2025-004870",
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  "published": "2026-11-14",
  "publisher": "BMJ Publishing Group",
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  "title": "Enablers and barriers to multisectoral collaboration for health and SDG implementation in Uganda: a qualitative study among national-level stakeholders",
  "title_text": "Enablers and barriers to multisectoral collaboration for health and SDG implementation in Uganda: a qualitative study among national-level stakeholders",
  "type": "peer-reviewed",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-15T15:20:46Z",
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