People-Planet-Health
People-Planet-Health
Call for engagement with the People-Planet-Health Action Board on community (urban) regeneration though participatory methods
Announcing two events that will take place in April! Do not miss this unique opportunity to share your ideas about planetary health, participation and community regeneration with World Health Organization representatives.
Visions for local participation in global policies: Workshop
Monday 5th of June (1 – 3pm CEST)
We will meet to share our ideas about ways of global participation of unheard local voices for a healthy planet. The topic of participatory methods and community urban regeneration were proposed by participants from Honduras and Spain at the first Action Board meeting and were very much welcomed by Dr. Rudiger Krech, WHO Director for Health Promotion. In this Workshop, we will exchange our experiences, ideas and visions on how unheard and unseen communities and voices can inform global policies for planetary health, and talk about how to broadly develop the approach of community urban regeneration, renewing visions for cities and communities oriented towards energy efficiency and social inclusivity.
All ideas will be welcomed: whether you are trying new participatory approaches in your specialist area of interest, or simply have ideas about what participation in a healthy future means to you, all visions will be valued. Discovering which beliefs about participation in planetary health connect us, and also what unique contributions we each bring to the discussion, we will agree a set of visions and values to share with WHO representatives at our Second Meeting of the PPH Action Board.
Next Meeting of the People-Planet-Health Action Board
Tuesday 6th of June (1 – 2pm CEST)
We will meet with Dr. Ruediger Krech and other senior colleagues from WHO to share those visions and ideas of methods and experiences from unheard voices for a healthy planet. We will celebrate the sustainable innovations you have championed or imagined and ask WHO colleagues how they might inform planetary health policy on a global scale.
For more information see the outcomes from the first Action Board meeting in October 2022 and the information an the People-Planet-Health Action Board and what it entails.
Interested parties may contact Claudia Meier Magistretti This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Jake Sallaway-Costello This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Links to join the activities will be shared with participants in due course.
NEWS: First meeting of the IUHPE People-Planet-Health Action Board
On the 12th of October 2022, IUHPE was proud to host the first meeting of the newly established IUHPE People-Planet-Health Action Board, a planetary health advocacy project which brings together unheard voices to envisage local ecologies for solving planetary health challenges. Established following the endorsement of the People-Planet-Health Position Statement by the IUHPE Executive in 2021, the Action Board presents imagines and shares novel methods of change to leaders at the World Health Organization, for global amplification and planetary health policy inspiration. Colleagues at IUHPE, WHO, and partner institutions have committed to supporting ten meetings of the Action Board between 2022 and 2027.
The first meeting saw representation from France, Taiwan, Italy, Norway, Zambia, Portugal, Honduras, Poland, the UK, and Switzerland. When considering the unheard voices which offered valuable insights for planetary health challenges, three groups were identified amongst participants: rural communities, vulnerable families, and students and young people in education. After aligning their lived experience or professional interests with one of these groups, members of the Action Board entered virtual breakout rooms to answer the topical focus of the first meeting:
What does wellbeing look like on a healthy planet?
After sharing and scrutinising ideas, the Action Board agreed a set of broad policy orientations to recommend to global policymakers the following day, when they were joined by Dr Ruediger Krech, Director of Health Promotion at the World Health Organization. On the 13th of October, the Action Board met with Dr Krech to share and discuss their recommendations for policy and change.
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1st Meeting of the IUHPE People-Planet-Health Action Board
The 1st Meeting of the IUHPE People-Planet-Health Action Board determined that wellbeing for a healthy planet means taking responsibility and accountability for:
· Allocating resources, ensuring equity in access to resources for planetary health. · Resolving conflicts, supporting people to innovate change for wellbeing together. · Assessing impact, using appreciative and participatory approaches to interpret wellbeing. · Forming partnerships with nature, through an alliance of ecosystems and modernity. · Agreeing basic values, which promote human purpose via planetary sense of coherence.
In its learning journey with changemakers across the planet, and policymakers at the World Health Organization, the Action Board advises the following initiatives to promote wellbeing:
· Constructing participatory processes which value diverse voices in planetary health. · Appreciating local solutions which offer novel insights into longstanding challenges. · Building coherence to identify common valuations of wellbeing on a healthy planet. · Connecting diverse communities through knowledge exchange of sustainable innovation.
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Dr Krech thanked the Action Board for their novel insights, and identified key strategic alignments between these visions of wellbeing and current developments in WHO policy, including the Geneva Charter. In response, the Action Board were delighted to be asked to scrutinise and challenge an upcoming WHO policy initiative considering the integration of wellbeing into current health promotion work. The Action Board submitted its feedback on this exciting development shortly before Christmas.
The People-Planet-Health Action Board serves as a novel platform for collaboration between IUHPE, WHO, partner institutions and civil society organisations around the world, supporting urgent policy developments on matters of planetary health. The second meeting, scheduled for April 2023, will focus on urban regeneration and community development, inviting innovative thinking from local changemakers about planetary health threats felt in cities around the world.
Do you have ideas, experiences or insights which might help IUHPE and WHO shape policy on planetary health? Get in touch! The Action Board is open to new members who have bold visions of a healthy future on a sustainable planet.
Please contact:
Claudia Meier Magistretti This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,
JakeSallaway-Costello This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or
Tulani Matenga This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to get involved!
People-Planet-Health Phase II
Launching the People-Planet-Health Action Board
Context statement
People-Planet-Health (PPH) is a global knowledge exchange initiative facilitated by the International Union of Health Promotion, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and the University of Nottingham. PPH Phase I was a global participatory process to write a Position Paper to support policy development on planetary health and wellbeing by the World Health Organisation. The Position Paper, written by grassroots planetary health activists across six continents, advocates a need for hearing and amplifying unheard voices in planetary health policy development. The position paper was endorsed by IUHPE Executive Board in October 2021, followed by a request from WHO in December 2021 to form an Action Board to create a space for listening to those voices. PPH Phase II is a health advocacy project, bringing unheard voices together to envisage local ecologies for solving planetary health challenges, and presenting those novel methods to WHO and IUHPE for global amplification.
Objective
To use global platforms to amplify novel solutions for planetary health and wellbeing from unheard voices.
Terms of Reference
• The body will be named the People-Planet-Health Action Board (hereby “the Action Board”).
• The Action Board will convene twice a year for the next five years, around November and May.
• Each convention of the Action Board will constitute a sequence of four activities:
o A current topical planetary health challenge will be chosen as the focus of the convention, with the challenge designation alternating between global (WHO, IUHPE) and local partners (grassroots groups, early-career professionals, Indigenous peoples, and others).
o A global virtual workshop will be facilitated by the partner universities (Lucerne and Nottingham) to bring together the Action Board to explore the challenge, share local meanings and experiences, and agree recommendations to put forward to WHO.
o A meeting of WHO and the Action Board will take place, in which members will present their ideas in relation to the focal planetary health challenge and suggest solutions (i.e., policy developments, civic engagement initiatives) and support need for their advocacy (local, national, global) by WHO, IUHPE and their respective networks.
o A series of small but impactful outputs will be agreed between the Action Board, WHO, IUHPE and the partner universities, to disseminate the recommendations to influence global and local stakeholders, support political mobilisation, and advance advocacy.
• The Action Board will have a flexible, changing, evolving, diverse and dynamic membership. Membership will be limited to representatives of small grassroots interests, including activist groups, student organisations, and early career networks.
Outputs
Each major stakeholder (WHO, IUHPE, the partner universities) will disseminate a creative output of each convention, typically in the form of a social media post, minor publication, endorsement or other artefact, with a view to lobbying for the advocated solutions from the Action Board at each convention.
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Background and Information on Phase 1 of the project
People-Planet-Health (PPH) is a global participatory policy and knowledge exchange initiative facilitated by the International Union of Health Promotion, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and the University of Nottingham.
PPH Phase I was a global participatory process to write a Position Paper to support policy development on planetary health and wellbeing by the World Health Organisation.
The Position Paper, written by grassroots planetary health activists across six continents, advocates a need for hearing and amplifying unheard voices in planetary health policy development. The position paper was endorsed by IUHPE Executive Board in October 2021, followed by a request from WHO in December 2021 to form an Action Board to create a space for listening to those voices.
The position statement is also available in French, Spanish, Arabic, and Mandarin
Partners for Phase I:
International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE)
Lucerne University of Applied Arts and Sciences
University of Nottingham
National University of Ireland Galway
With support from the IC-program of Lucerne University of Applied Arts and Sciences, Switzerland.
Context for Phase I
At the IUHPE 2019 World Conference, in Aotearoa New Zealand, the IUHPE Rotorua statement was approved calling for urgent action to promote planetary health and sustainable development. Based on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we conceive of sustainable development as a creative process in and between different social and cultural contexts. This process has been initiated by grassroots activists across the world.
Publications
The People-Planet-Health position paper, based on the People-Planet-Health project and written by local planetary health practitioners and initiatives representing all inhabited continents, intends to contribute to the new WHO strategies on health promotion and wellbeing by adding the comprehensive perspective of planetary health.
A Commentary was published in IUHPE’s journal, Global Health Promotion, elaborating on the salutogenetic underpinnings of the project
Project Launch
Watch the project launch webinar “No Health without Planetary Health,” which was held on 13 July 2020, with Dr Ruediger Krech, Director of Health Promotion at WHO, Claudia Meier Magistretti & Jake Sallaway-Costello, the project leads and Jake Brown & Omnia El Omrani, youth activists.
