Tuesday, August 25, 2009

[EQ] World Conference on Health Promotion - 11-15 July 2010, Geneva, Switzerland

20th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion,

11-15 July 2010, Geneva, Switzerland

Website: http://www.iuhpeconference.net/index.php

Health Promotion Switzerland serves as Co-Chair of the Organising Committee

The aim is to reach beyond the public health and health promotion sector and to provide a great opportunity to facilitate and advance the work for health promotion and disease prevention in the context of sustainable development.

Thematic Scope

In a globalised world, the dynamics of modernization and urbanization pose major challenges for ecological sustainability and equitable, sustainable health development. Competition for resources and environmental threats erode social solidarity and exacerbate existing social inequalities, within and across countries.

Sustainable improvement of health and well being in this context requires strengthened and expanded partnerships that go beyond the health sector, skilled advocacy, and evidence-based and ethically sound practice and policy. The Conference will examine ways to achieve healthy people and healthy environments.

Core issues

The conference will examine the problems of the following issues and possible solutions:

· Sustainable environment and health
- What are the interlinkages between urbanization, environmental degradation, environmental justice and health development?

· Equitable and sustainable health development
- Can equity and sustainable development be achieved through health promotion action on societal determinants?

· Participatory governance
- What local and global partnerships do we need to strengthen health and sustainable development?

Interview with Sir Michael Marmot

Interview with Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Director of the International Institute for Society and Health,
MRC Research Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College, London.

The interview has been led by Thomas Mattig, Health Promotion Switzerland.

http://www.iuhpeconference.net/downloads/en/Thematisches/Interview-Dr-Mattig-with-Sir-Michael-Marmot-1-Dec-2008.pdf

"Closing the gap in a generation", WHO report to which Sir Michael Marmot refers in the interview (PDF, 7.29 MB)
http://www.iuhpeconference.net/downloads/en/Thematisches/closing-the-gap.pdf

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[EQ] Global Experiences on Expanding Water and Sanitation Services to the Urban Poor

Guidance Notes on Services for the Urban Poor

A Practical Guide for Improving Water Supply and Sanitation Services

Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), The World Bank, August 2009

Press release: http://go.worldbank.org/UW2TXOP5W0

Available online PDF [72p.] at:

http://www.wsp.org/UserFiles/file/Main_Global_Guidance_Note.pdf

“….To meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for water supply and sanitation, project planners and service providers and the poor themselves in developing countries will have to overcome a number of barriers that impede the improvement of services for the poor.

These Guidance Notes identify a number of institutional, legal, financial, and technical barriers to providing adequate services to the urban poor and propose practical solutions based on the experience of a number of relevant cases. These Notes are aimed primarily at project planners, service providers, and community leaders but provide some suggestions for policymakers. A summary of policy issues is included in the last section….”

Content:

Executive Summary

Section 1: Introduction

Section 2: Give the Poor a Voice

Promote Meaningful Participation in Planning and Design

Publish Stories of the Poor

Inform and Educate Poor Communities

Empower the Poor to Act within and beyond Their Own Communities

Getting Started: Actions and Resources

Section 3: Build Support for Improving Services

Incorporate Informal Service Providers into the Solution

Create Political Support for Change

Getting Started: Actions and Resources

Section 4: Eliminate Administrative and Legal Barriers

Delink Service Provision from Land Tenure

Institutionalize Simplified Procedures and Provide Assistance

Getting Started: Actions and Resources

Section 5: Strengthen Capacity, Autonomy, and Accountability of Service Providers and Provide Incentives to Serve the Poor

Separate and Clarify the Responsibilities of the Actors

Strengthen Capacity

Recognize and Work with Alternative Providers

Introduce Accountability and Performance Monitoring Systems

Regulation by Contract

Other Regulatory Mechanisms

Getting Started: Actions and Resources

Contents

Guidance Notes on

Services for the Urban Poor

Section 6: Adopt Appropriate Investment Finance, Cost Recovery, and Subsidy Policies

Adopt Realistic Cost Recovery Policies and Targeted Subsidies

Develop a Cost Recovery Strategy

If Necessary, Subsidize Investments, not Consumption

Restructure Charges and Payment Practices to Accommodate the Poor

Reduce the Connection Charges for Poor Households

Introduce Frequent Collection of Water Charges

Eliminate Distorted Tariffs for Poor Households

Legitimize and Provide Finance for Small Private Service Providers

Getting Started: Actions and Resources

Section 7: Overcome Physical and Technical Barriers

Protect Water Resources

Adopt Alternative Technologies and Delivery Systems

Adopt Modular Planning

Getting Started: Actions and Resources

Section 8: Summary of Policy Issues

The Policy Framework

List of Policy Issues Associated with the Proposed Strategies

Give the Poor a Voice

Take Vested Interests into Account

Eliminate Administrative and Legal Barriers

Strengthen Capacity, Autonomy, and Accountability of Service Providers

Make Appropriate Investment Finance, Cost Recovery, and Subsidy Policies

Overcome Physical and Technical Barriers

Resources

Global Experiences on Expanding Water and Sanitation Services to the Urban Poor

World Bank, August 2009

Available online PDF [172p.] at:
http://www.wsp.org/UserFiles/file/Accompanying_Volume_to_Global_Guidance_Notes.pdf

Case Studies

1. Parivartan: Slum Networking Project Ahmedabad India

2. The Slum Sanitation Program: Reaching the Poor through Mumbai India Sustainable Partnerships

3. PROSANEAR: Combining Community Participation and Brazil Low-Cost Technology

4. Federation of Water Associations: Giving the Poor a Voice Manila The Philippines

5. Orangi Pilot Project: The Poor Invest in Their Future Karachi Pakistan

6. Kalyani: No Subsidy Sanitation Leads to Open-Defecation-Free Slums Kalyani, Kolkata India Metropolitan Area

7. Community-Managed Toilets: Solving Sanitation Problems of Tiruchirapalli India Urban Poor Communities

8. The Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board: Hyderabad India Organizational Reform for Improved Service Delivery

9. National Water and Sewerage Corporation: Utility Reform Helps the Urban Poor Uganda

10. Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board: Service Delivery in Slums Bengaluru India

11. Nongovernmental Organization-Assisted Water Points: Dhaka Bangladesh Social Intermediation for the Urban Poor

12. Alandur Municipality: User Contributions in Infrastructure Development Alandur India

13. Jamshedpur Utilities and Services Company Limited: Innovative Initiative to Jamshedpur India Provide Adequate Water

14. Temeke District: Community-Managed Water and Sanitation Program Dar es Salaam Tanzania
15. Water for All: Community-Managed Water Services Tegucigalpa Honduras

16. Programs to Serve the Poor Urban Areas of Lima: Lima Peru Alternative Water Management Models

17. Nyalenda Water Supply Project: Delegated Management Model Kisumu Kenya

18. Water Trust Model: A Community-Based Initiative Lusaka Zambia

19. Social Connections and Public Standpipes: Access to Drinking Water in Disadvantaged Areas Dakar Senegal

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[EQ] Health and Human Rights - An International Journal - Issue on Participation

Table of Contents, Vol 11, No 1 (2009), Health and Human Rights

Website: http://hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr

Front Matter

On Participation

Health and Human Rights: An International Journal

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Introduction

The power of community in advancing the right to health
A conversation with Anand Grover

Abstract HTML PDF

“…..The community is the most effective tool that we have: an organic tool, not a tool in the abstract or purely instrumental sense, but a living, organic tool which can see to it that the right to health is actually delivered. You just have to compare the efficiencies of the Global Fund, in terms of actual delivery, to the traditional systems of financing, and you see a vast difference. This suggests how we have to shift the paradigm across the sectors, not only in HIV. And HIV activists are very clear that health systems must respond to the needs of all people who suffer disadvantage in health — whether it’s because of poverty, as Paul Farmer has discussed, or because of other forms of discrimination and marginalization, for example the discrimination that affects indigenous peoples or other ethnic minorities. Now we must deliver, and those communities must be part of the process of decision-making, implementation, monitoring, and accountability. That’s what HIV has shown as a living reality, and that’s what we want to translate into other areas of health. ..”

‘…HHR: Why might the mandate of the Special Rapporteur be especially important right now?

AG: The economic crisis shows the importance of systematic action to protect rights, including the right to health, especially for poor and marginalized groups. In the 1990s, we had economic liberalization, which usually meant only privatization. The poor were pushed into deeper poverty, while the rich became richer. In this context, it’s all the more important to insist that the right to health is universal. But this isn’t just a philosophical principle. It’s about budgeting. As I said, we can’t ignore budgeting anymore. And budgeting doesn’t mean that governments in low-income countries must pay for everything from their own resources. The right to the highest attainable standard of health, and the responsibility to protect the right, have to be seen in international terms. This means you look at international systems of financing. If a country’s resources aren’t adequate, then money has to come from abroad, also. That financing commitment has to be part of the international rights agenda….”

Critical Concepts

Suffering and powerlessness: The significance of promoting participation in rights-based approaches to health

Alicia Ely Yamin

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Health through people’s empowerment: A rights-based approach to participation

Pol De Vos, Wim De Ceukelaire, Geraldine Malaise, Dennis Pérez, Pierre Lefèvre, Patrick Van der Stuyft

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Social participation within a context of political violence: Implications for the promotion and exercise of the right to health in Guatemala

Walter Flores, Ana Lorena Ruano, Denise Phé Funchal

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Participation and the right to health: Lessons from Indonesia

Sam Foster Halabi

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