Health

This topic covers a wide range of issues related to the EU commitment to protect and promote health as a human right for all in the frame of the EC external cooperation. Support to the building of competent health systems, accessibility to basic health services, equity and solidarity values are just some of the principles guiding this cooperation. Maternal and child mortality, the crisis of human resources in the health sector, poverty related diseases and other issues may be addresssed under this topic.

Webinar: Waste management during the COVID-19 pandemic – Workers’ Safety

Alexa Froger updated the event | 14 April 2020

30 Apr

From 30 April 2020
Organised by UN-Habitat, the Wuppertal Institute, UNEP

Already before COVID-19, 2 billion people worldwide were lacking access to waste collection and 3 billion to controlled waste disposal. The current COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly spreading, thus intensifying its impact upon the world’s healthcare systems and economy. During this time, ensuring...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Webinar: Waste management during the COVID-19 pandemic – Adapting systems to manage the crisis

Alexa Froger updated the event | 14 April 2020

23 Apr

From 23 April 2020
Organised by UN-Habitat, the Wuppertal Institute, UNEP

Already before COVID-19, 2 billion people worldwide were lacking access to waste collection and 3 billion to controlled waste disposal. The current COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly spreading, thus intensifying its impact upon the world’s healthcare systems and economy. During this time, ensuring...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Webinar: Waste management during the COVID-19 pandemic – Challenges & Opportunities

Alexa Froger updated the event | 14 April 2020

16 Apr

From 16 April 2020
Organised by UN-Habitat, the Wuppertal Institute, UNEP

Already before COVID-19, 2 billion people worldwide were lacking access to waste collection and 3 billion to controlled waste disposal. The current COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly spreading, thus intensifying its impact upon the world’s healthcare systems and economy. During this time, ensuring...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Emerging zoonotic diseases and links to ecosystem health – UNEP Frontiers 2016 chapter

Alexa Froger updated the Document | 14 April 2020

zoonoses.pdf 3.75 MB

In 2016 the UN Environment Programme identified the issue of zoonotic diseases as a key emerging issue of global concern in its Frontiers publication series . The chapter on zoonoses – diseases that can be passed on from animals to humans – illustrates how the emergence and re-emergence of zoonotic...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Assessing the economic impact of COVID-19 and policy responses in sub-Saharan Africa

Francois Stepman posted Information | 14 April 2020

9 April 2020 . WASHINGTON. ASSESSING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF COVID-19AND POLICY RESPONSES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA African countries will require financial assistance from their development partners -including COVID-19 related multilateral assistance and a debt service stand still with official...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Illegal Trade in Chemicals

Alexa Froger updated the Document | 9 April 2020

chemicals.pdf 21.83 MB

This novel publication provides an overview of the knowledge gap and enforcement challenges in the illegal trade of toxic, hazardous and severely restricted chemicals, as well as in non-existing or low areas of chemical regulations. The potential and real economic, social and environmental costs of...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
The global EU response to the coronavirus pandemic

Francois Stepman posted Information | 9 April 2020

On 7 April 2020, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, recorded a video message at the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium , on the global EU response to the coronavirus pandemic. On this occasion, Ursula von der Leyen stressed the need for a coordinated global response...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Launch of IFPRI's 2020 Global Food Policy Report: Building Inclusive Food Systems

Francois Stepman posted Information | 9 April 2020

7 April 2020. The rapid spread of COVID-19 and efforts to contain it are generating growing concerns that food insecurity, malnutrition, and poverty may escalate, particularly among marginalized people in the developing world. To build more resilient, climate-smart, and healthy food systems that...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Invitation UNDP Seoul Policy Centre Webinar Series on “Post-COVID-19: Implications for International (Development) Cooperation"

Capacity4dev Team posted Information | 9 April 2020

UNDP Seoul Policy Centre (USPC) is organizing three webinars on: Post-COVID-19: Implications for International (Development) Cooperation. The world is working on mitigating the enormous challenges of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, however, some ideas on what the recovery will require are already...

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Group: Health Crisis Prevention, Preparedness and Response
LEARN Lao PDR - manuscript: Factors associated with food consumption patterns of inpatient children aged 3 - 5 years with diarrhea in hospitals in Khammuane province 2019

Javier Burgos uploaded a new Document | 8 April 2020

sengouthai_phoutthavong_manuscript.pdf 271.69 KB

Factors associated with food consumption patterns of inpatient children aged 3 - 5 years with diarrhea in hospitals in Khammuane province 2019 Abstract Introduction: Diarrhea is the most common childhood illness and causes hospitalization especially in low and middle income countries. It accounts...

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Group: Supporting Public Health Institutes Programme - SPHIP

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