Sustainable Development

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Sustainable Development Environmental Health
(SDE)
Technical Advisory Group on Gender Equality and
Health 10 11 November, 2009 Washington DC
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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)
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Sustainable Development and Environmental Health
SDE Competencies
Leadership in the area of social determinants and
health including inequities
Information analysis, Identification of
environmental risks and preventive strategies
Inter-sectoral and inter-institutional management
skills. Planning, managing and evaluating
Technical Cooperation 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
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
Support the ratification of Environmental Risk
and the application of guidelines Project
DDT/Malaria Funder UNEP/GEF
SDE Collaborating Centers Partners
University of Toronto, ISALUD/Argentina, Ibero-Ame
rican Network of Cultural Heritage for Humanity,
Health and University Cities
Fiocruz/Brazil, University of Wisconsin Harvard
University, IRET/Costa Rica, CEHI Saint Lucia
John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
Center for Disease Control and Prevention,
Instituto Nacional de Cancer (Brazil)
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Sustainable Development and Environmental Health
Intersectoral Alliances Local Development
MDGs critical for PAHOs cooperation with
countries
PAHOs 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
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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

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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)

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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)

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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