Top 25 ranked priorities by setting and expertise
| Domain | Priority | Context | Expertise | |||||
| Overall | HIC | LMIC | Technical | Policy | Research | Community | ||
| Best practice guidance | Develop systematic approaches to teaching children swimming and water safety skills. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 1 |
| Capacity building | Strengthen capacity for data systems to measure and monitor drowning burden at all levels. | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 2 | 6 |
| Inclusive global governance | Increase funding for advocacy, research, policy and implementation. | 3 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 7 |
| Multisectoral action | Develop national/subnational strategies and action plans. | 4 | 1 | 19 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 24 |
| Inclusive global governance | Develop regional strategies, and action plans for drowning prevention. | 5 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Multisectoral action | Develop inclusive approaches with governments, civil society, community and private sector. | 6 | 8 | 6 | 15 | 14 | 4 | 17 |
| Multisectoral action | Strengthen multisectoral policies that address drowning prevention challenges (at all levels). | 7 | 12 | 7 | 16 | 3 | 14 | 19 |
| Inclusive global governance | Establish a global alliance for drowning prevention. | 8 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 13 | 18 | 13 |
| Engagement with health and sustainable development agendas | Prioritise partnerships in the Disaster Risk Reduction sector aligned to the Sendai Framework. | 9 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 20 | 15 |
| Multisectoral action | Strengthen coordinating mechanisms to facilitate collaboration and accountability at national/subnational levels. | 10 | 3 | 20 | 20 | 5 | 8 | 18 |
| Inclusive global governance | Prioritise inclusion of high burden populations in decision-making and global governance. | 11 | 13 | 13 | 17 | 11 | 13 | 11 |
| Best practice guidance | Promote best practice guidance for community education and training interventions. | 12 | 15 | 9 | 11 | 18 | 16 | 3 |
| Best practice guidance | Promote WHO guidance for safe places for preschool children in high burden populations. | 13 | 19 | 10 | 18 | 24 | 7 | 2 |
| Multisectoral action | Prioritise partnerships with the early childhood care and development sector. | 14 | 6 | 22 | 24 | 12 | 9 | 9 |
| Inclusive global governance with strengthened accountability | Convene multistakeholder meetings and forums to coordinate drowning prevention efforts. | 15 | 23 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 19 | 14 |
| Research and further contextualisation of drowning prevention | Investigate the impact of social and demographic factors on drowning prevention. | 16 | 18 | 15 | 10 | 20 | 17 | 5 |
| High-level political advocacy | Develop strategies for engagement with the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States. | 17 | 22 | 8 | 19 | 25 | 5 | 8 |
| Research and further contextualisation of drowning prevention | Investigate the burden and effectiveness of interventions addressing child and adolescent drowning. | 18 | 16 | 21 | 25 | 15 | 12 | 4 |
| Multisectoral action | Prioritise partnerships with the education sector. | 19 | 11 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 24 | 22 |
| Engagement with health and sustainable development agendas | Align drowning prevention with the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030. | 20 | 17 | 18 | 5 | 7 | 25 | 23 |
| Multisectoral action | Increase funding for pathway projects in multisectoral action for drowning prevention. | 21 | 14 | 24 | 21 | 19 | 11 | 25 |
| Multisectoral action | Prioritise partnerships with the emergency sector, including with police and fire departments. | 22 | 21 | 16 | 2 | 21 | 22 | 21 |
| Inclusive global governance | Adopt a targeted country approach, by selecting 10 priority countries across different contexts to identify, and share novel approaches. | 23 | 25 | 14 | 22 | 23 | 15 | 12 |
| High-level political advocacy | Develop an accountability framework aligned to the UN Resolution on Global Drowning Prevention to monitor national progress. | 24 | 24 | 17 | 13 | 22 | 23 | 16 |
| Capacity building | Strengthen capacity for policy-based approaches to drowning prevention. | 25 | 20 | 25 | 23 | 6 | 21 | 20 |
HIC, high-income country; LMIC, low- and middle-income country; UN, United Nations.