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Sustainable Development & Environmental Health (SDE)

Sustainable Development & Environmental Health (SDE). Technical Advisory Group on Gender Equality and Health 10 & 11 November, 2009 Washington DC. Health Determinants & Health Promotion. Equity. Excellence. Solidarity. Respect. Integrity. Sustainable Development and Environmental Health.

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Sustainable Development & Environmental Health (SDE)

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  1. Sustainable Development & Environmental Health (SDE) Technical Advisory Group on Gender Equality and Health 10 & 11 November, 2009 Washington DC

  2. Health Determinants & Health Promotion Equity Excellence Solidarity Respect Integrity Sustainable Development and Environmental Health Human Security & Urban Health (Violence, Traffic, Urban Health, Solid Waste) Intersectoral Alliances & Local Development Sustainable Development & Environmental Health (SDE) Risk Assessment & Global Environmental Change Alcohol, Tobacco and Substance abuse Consumers and Workers’ Health (Toxicology)

  3. Sustainable Development andEnvironmentalHealth SDE Competencies: Leadership in the area of social determinants and health including inequities Inter-sectoral and inter-institutional management skills. Planning, managing and evaluating Technical Cooperation strategies Information analysis, Identification of environmental risks and preventive strategies Examples of Successful SDE Technical Cooperation: Ratification of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control;Support negotiations to determine best mechanism for countries to pursue ratification of WHO FCTC Project: Bloomberg Global Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use Funder: Bloomberg Philanthropies Support the ratification of Environmental Risk and the application of guidelines Project: DDT/Malaria Funder: UNEP/GEF Prevention of violence and traffic injuries through HP/SD work with municipal and local authorities Project: Youth Development and Violence Prevention Funder/Partner: GTZ/BMZ Project: Injuries surveillance systems Funder/Partner: CDC SDE Collaborating Centers & Partners: University of Toronto, ISALUD/Argentina, Ibero-American Network of Cultural Heritage for Humanity, Health and University Cities John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Instituto Nacional de Cancer (Brazil) Fiocruz/Brazil, University of Wisconsin Harvard University, IRET/Costa Rica, CEHI Saint Lucia

  4. Sustainable Development and Environmental Health Intersectoral Alliances & Local Development MDGs critical for PAHO’s cooperation with countries PAHO’s commitment to MDGs was ratified in the 45th Directing Council Cross Organizational Teams MDGs Faces, Voices and Places Initiative taking forward the MDGs Results-based management Mainstreaming and Inter-sectoral collaboration

  5. Why gender matters to SDE?Selected reasons • Alcohol • Relationship between alcohol and violence: • Men who drink may become more violent and inflict greater harm • Women victims of violence may turn to alcohol to self-medicate • Violence • Violence affects men and women differently: • Men are more likely to be victims of violence by strangers • Women are more likely to be victims of violence by a partner or someone known to them • Road safety • Road traffic injuries are leading cause of death among adolescent girls in high and middle income countries • Of the deaths caused by traffic accidents in the Americas, almost 80% occur among men • Tobacco • Adolescent and young women are specific targets of tobacco companies • Women seem to have greater difficulty in quitting

  6. How is SDE mainstreaming gender internally? • Internal gender workshop to ensure gender was considered in planning process (in partnership with GEH) • Examples of how gender was included in work plans: • 3.2.1 - # of countries with intersectoral plans for the prevention of GBV • 3.3.1 - # of countries with information systems that include indicators on GBV • 3.6.2 - # of countries that include support to quit smoking in their health services, following WHO guidelines • 7.2.3 - # of countries that have incorporated the initiative “faces, voices and places” (gender perspective and social determinants of health)

  7. Selected ongoing SDE initiatives and collaborations related to gender • Study of unpaid workers to provide evidence to tailor actions to improve the health, safety, and working conditions of women in this sector • Study on sexual violence in situations of conflict to guide future action • Support to initiative in the area of violence and HIV in Central America (headed by HIV and Gender areas) • Gender-based violence observatories (in partnership with GEH)

  8. Future SDE efforts to continue strengthening focus on gender • Each SDE team has to report gender oriented outcomes • New structure (to start in early 2010) teams will have to have gender based projects • Team coordination is strengthened and gender focus is strongly encouraged • Advisor on IFV to widen SDE gender perspective • Further strengthen work with GHE

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