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Youth Participation at the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, Parma part VIII

“Success is not the key to happiness.

Happiness is the key to success.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

Herman Cain

WHO CEHAPE Youth Network

in front of the Parma Conference Venue

"Young people: a vital investment in the environment and health process", - WHO website

Youth Participation at the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, Parma part VII

The 12th of March was the Closure of the 5th Ministerial Conferenceof Environment and Health.
The Parma Declaration and Parma Youth Declaration were presented.


"Delegates agreed that ensuring the full participation of young people in policy development adds a dimension of sustainability and legitimacy to the environment and health process", -WHO website.

On photo: Desislava Taneva (Bulgaria) and Kristina Aare(Estonia) presented Parma Youth Declration

Youth Participation at the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, Parma part VI

The 11th of March was the big day for the whole youth network, because we had the opportunity to participate in panel session and to ask questions from ministers. Also after the success of the 10th with the side event, on the 11th we took part in another side event with World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and Cefic (chemical industry). In the morning sessions on CEHAPE started at 8:30 with the announcement of the winners of CEHAPE Best Practice Awards. After this NGOs and the youth had the chance to ask questions directly to the ministers who signed up for this session, so we asked about mobility in Austria, health care in Norway and education. The stakeholder session aimed to point out how collaboration between civil society, NGOs and the business sector can be strengthened. There was a roundtable discussion with all the relevant stakeholders and we had the possibility to participate there as well. All these sessions went really well, and all of the four international youth delegates were extremely proud of the group and the people who participated. Later that afternoon we had another young person participating in a roundtable discussion, just before the side event with WBCSD. The side event was attended mostly by young people and some NGOs who were interested in the opinion of the business sector on some relevant topics. Our youth representative there was very powerful and expert in the topic so we were very proud to have her there.

Youth Participation at the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, Parma part V

In the morning of 11th of March there were CEHAPE Awards.
Our Network is proud of Irina Fedorenko and Evgeniya Soboleva from Vladivostok, Russia.
Their Organization "Green Light" won a prize of 1000 euro in the nomination of Youth Participation.
Our congratulations and best wishes for future work!
more information can be found here

Youth Participation at the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, Parma part IV

In the afternoon of the 10th of March 2010 the official opening ceremony of the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health was happened.

Provisional programme for the Conference can be found here

Youth Participation at the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, Parma part III

WHO/DG SANCO physical activity workshop went extraordinary well in the morning of 10th of March. We had 2 very nice facilitators from Oxford University, UK. First we had to work individually with a sheet of paper collecting as many good and bad experiences connected to physical activity. Then we had to form groups and we had teamwork. We got a piece of paper with a description of a possible project and the group had to make it youth friendly somehow and had to create a project plan according to it. Just to give you some examples we had to create projects for disabled young people, for people living in the city centre with limited accessibility to green areas, for young people living in the suburbs etc. After reading all project plans with all the advantages and disadvantages we had a discussion on all of them to conclude the session. In the presentation Paul Kelly assured us that further consultations will take place before they publish the blueprint on physical activity, so we gave him our e-mails and we’ll be consulted after they summarize the results from the workshop. All in all it was a very successful event because all the participants were active and they enjoyed it a lot.

Youth Participation at the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, Parma part II

On the 10th of March WHO CEHAPE Youth Network splited into 2 groups in the morning. One part participated at the workshop with Oxford University and WHO on WHO/DG SANCO physical activity programme. The others went to joint side-event with CEHAPE youth and HEAL about youth participation. The programme can be found here .

Genon Jensen (Executive Director, HEAL) and Jovana Dodos (Serbia, International CEHAPE Youth Delegate)

It was a brilliant side-event with fantastic presentations and good questions!

Youth Participation at the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, Parma part I

Over 72 young people from 36 countries of WHO European Region arrived to Parma on the 8th of March 2010 in Parma.

This group of young people considered to be a strong group of WHO CEHAPE Youth Network.

Young people were excited and full of energy.

On the 9th of March 2010 all young people met in the Eco-sustainable building for final preparations at the 5th Ministerial Conference.

Parma Youth Declaration was finalized, the communication strategy was discussed, the role of young people at the Parma Conference was the main topic of the discussions.

During the preparations young people met with journalists and shared their opinions about environment and health.

In the late afternoon WHO CEHAPE Youth Network met the WHY Network where they shared the role of youth participation at the conference.

Snow didnt have a chance to stop young peope to reach a Conference Venue!

Never never never give up! - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

To CEHAPE with love from Ireland

Parma message

Pascal Conges, France

France prepares for Parma

Appel de la Jeunesse (Youth call to action) held the first youth and
decision-maker conference on health and environment in the National
Assembly in Paris on Thursday 26 February in preparation for the
Parma conference.


Martin Rieussec and Pascal Conges of the Collectif Appel de la
Jeunesse have been part of the Europe-wide development of a
declaration that will be signed in Parma by the ministers of health
and environment present at the meeting.


The five associations which make up the Appel de la Jeunesse
collective include an association for osteopath students (Regards
Croises) who recently organised a conference on the causes of cancer
following the death of one of their fellow students. They discovered
that the causes of the illness were inked to an industrialised food
chain, intensive agriculture, pollution, different types of ionising
radiation and so on.


The collectif aims to bring together student organisations and young
people interested in health and environment and encourage lifestyles
and consumerism that is respectful of health, societies and ecosystems.


Martin Rieussec, President of the Collectif Appel de la Jeunesse and
founder of Regards Croises told the meeting: "We do not think that
our generation et those to come can be in good health on a sick planet."


Contact: Martin Rieussec, President, martinrieussec@gmail.com
http://www.appeldelajeunesse.org/

Invitation to the Symposium "Youth Participation in CEHAPE RPGs in countries" at the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment & Health, 10 March 2010

Dear participants of the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health in Parma 10-12 March 2010,

HEAL and WHO CEHAPE Youth Network is pleased to invite you to the Symposium "Youth Participation in CEHAPE RPGs in countries". Please read the information below. We look forward to meet you there.

Symposium organized by

Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) and the WHO CEHAPE Youth Network

Youth Participation in CEHAPE RPGs in countries

Wednesday, March 10, 10:30-12:00

The side event aims to highlight how youth have been involved in children’s environmental health issues and CEHAPE implementation throughout the WHO European Region. The organisers will briefly present their contribution, the development of the WHO CEHAPE Youth Network, and HEAL’s educational and advocacy materials for young people.

A series of lively presentations and videos from young people across the region will showcase concrete examples of how youth can significantly contribute to awareness raising and action on environment and health at local and national level.

OPENING

Genon K. Jensen, Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) Executive Director

Jovana Dodos, CEHAPE International Youth Delegate

· Olivia Heller (Switzerland) from European Child Alliance, who will have presentation about “Youth on injury prevention – how do we make a difference”

· Lydia Etzlstorfer (Austria) who will have 7 minutes movie about CEHAPE projects in Austria by youth - highlighting the best priorities on 4 RPGs.

· Gulnara Zhenishbekova (Kyrgystan) who will prepare presentation about Youth Parliaments Work on environment and health issues in Kyrgystan behalf of "Central Asian Alliance for Water" and "Youth Independent Republics"

· Alexandros Karyolaimos (Greece) who will present the CEHAPE Pilot project “Healthy schools” (experience from Greece)

· Jovana Dodos (Serbia) who will present work with National Focal Points - youth involvement in creating national CEHAPE projects

· Martin Rieussec (France) from the Appel de Jeunnesse will present their school and university project on environment and health .

GENERAL DISCUSSION - PANEL WITH ALL THE SPEAKERS

CONCLUDING/CLOSURE REMARKS

After the Conference

We decided that as meeting together is a rare event, we would make the most of the time we have together and schedule a post Conference feedback and de brief session following the closure of the conference on 12th March. We will convene in the building we held our preparatory days in and hold a debriefing and feed back session.

Our consensus is that CEHAPE is not a five year project, so we will also take the time to reaffirm our commitment to continuing the activities of the WHO CEHAPE Youth Network and build our plans for the expansion of our Network and extension of our activities, building upon the outcomes of Parma.

Participation at the Conference

We plan to be visible during the Conference
through, for example, the daily update of our Youth Blog

http://env-health-youth.blogspot.com/

Regular postings of our activities will be placed on the blog as a record of our activities during the days. These will include our reactions to Conference session outcomes, reports on ad hoc discussions with key people in the Environment and Health movement and thoughts on the whole process recorded by our observers.

A number of us will be participating as official members of national Ministerial delegations and we aim to be active delegate members through our participation in plenary debates and discussions with our Ministers and officials.
Some of us are busy already in our countries, preparing short video spots. We hope that these will be projected at various timed throughout the conference, providing a youth perspective on different aspects of CEHAPE.

In the panel sessions we will be putting our prepared questions to Ministers and providing a youth focus to the discussions that the sessions stimulate.
We also hope to make ourselves visible during some of the less formal moments of the Conference when we are able to circulate at coffee breaks and lunches, sparking off discussion, networking with other organisations and maybe asking those questions that there were no time for during the debates.

WHO CEHAPE Youth Network Conference preparation days

The plans that we have for our participation in Parma are extensive. Our representation at the conference will include young people from over 40 countries of the WHO European Region, all of whom are in action in environment and health activities in their countries. We will come together on the two days before the conference to finalise plans for our Conference participation.

The preparatory days (9-10th of March 2010) will include the final selection and preparation of representatives who will participate in the three panel sessions we are scheduled to be active in.

In addition we will put the finishing touches to the presentations we will be making at the joint side events that we are planning, in collaboration with HEAL, (the Health and Environment Alliance) and the World Business Council.

The Network has been working on the preparation of the 5th Ministerial Conference WHO CEHAPE Youth Network Declaration which it is hoped we will be presenting to Ministers for its inclusion as a Conference outcome, as was the case in Budapest when the first Youth declaration was presented. During the preparatory days, we will finalise and approve the declaration ready for its presentation.

WHO in collaboration with DG SANCO are preparing for a three year project on physical activity, children and young people. They have approached the WHO CEHAPE Youth Network for collaboration in the project and so we have scheduled a session on the second day of our preparatory days to discuss some of the case studies that have been prepared and plan the activities for the three years collaboration.

The City of Parma is hosting us during the conference an we know that they are preparing a number of events for us to enjoy. These include site visits to some environmental projects in the city and different kinds of evening entertainment.

Towards to Parma. WHO CEHAPE Youth Network participation

WHO CEHAPE Youth Network participation

at the WHO 5th Ministerial Conference
on Environment and Health

10-12 March 2010, Parma, Italy

We, the WHO CEHAPE Youth Network, set ourselves up in 2004 when, in Budapest, at the 4th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, Ministers and young people agreed to build youth participation into the implementation of the Children’s Environment and Health Action Plan for Europe. Since that time, groups of young people from around Europe have met on a regular basis to discuss CEHAPE with policy and decision makers and plan our active participation in CEHAPE, adding value to its implementation. Young people have also been active internationally through our regular participation in the European Environment and Health Committee and the CEHAPE Task Force meetings.

The 5th Ministerial Conference provides another opportunity for the WHO CEHAPE Youth Network to participate at an international gathering. We will meet again with Ministers, senior ministerial officials and other key organisations in Europe, and ensure our voices are heard on matters that have a direct bearing on our health now and in the future. We will inherit the results of the decisions taken at the conference and so we want a say in what is decided.

Towards to Parma. Youth Preparatory Meeting, Brussels, 8-10th of January 2010

Young people from seventeen countries of the World Health Organization’s European Region met in Brussels in January to build capacity for youth involvement in the upcoming WHO Environment and health conference.

Twenty youth representatives met in the HEAL offices in early January for a preparatory seminar in the run up to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health to be hosted by the Italian Ministry of Health in Parma, 10-12th of March 2010. This Ministerial will discuss progress towards the achievement of the Children’s Environment and Health Action Plan (CEHAPE).

Since the 2004 Ministerial, young people have been officially part of the WHO CEHAPE process. The two and half day seminar in Brussels was organised by the CEHAPE youth representatives, and facilitated by the European Youth Forum. Bringing together this diverse mix of young people enabled them to discuss the draft text of the Declaration that focused on children’s environmental health and to brainstorm on the questions they could be ask Ministers during the CEHAPE Good Practice Award and panel discussion on March 11 in Parma.. The event was organised with financial support of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Health and Consumers (DG SANCO)and logistical and technical support by Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL).

This workshop resulted in increased capacity of this core WHO CEHAPE Youth Network, who will be coming to Parma to help organise and foster the youth involvement in the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health in Parma in March 2010.

Meet our WHO CEHAPE Youth Network Coordinator, David Rivett

My name is David Rivett. It was at the beginning of 2009 that the WHO Europe Environment and Health programme asked me to work with the WHO CEHAPE Youth Network in their preparations for the participation of Network members at the 5th Ministerial Conference for Environment and Health. I was very pleased to say yes because it brought me full circle in the series of Environment and Health Ministerial Conferences.

I was responsible for the same task at the 4th Ministerial Conference which was held in Budapest in 2004 and where the CEHAPE was launched. At that time I worked in the WHO Young People’s Health programme and had been involved in young people’s participation in several initiatives such as the WHO health promoting schools programme and the 2001 Stockholm Ministerial Conference on Alcohol and Young People.

Young people’s participation has been a theme throughout my career which began when I was a teacher in the UK and continued when I became a youth worker and then responsible for drug prevention and health promotion programmes for young people in a region of South East London. Later my role expanded to include responsibility for national programmes.

Young people’s participation in the CEHAPE is now firmly established and the CEHAPE Youth Network’s participation at the Parma Conference is another opportunity to strengthen the Network’s national and international role in the Action Plan.

I am enjoying working with the Network members, who are planning to not only participate fully in the Conference programme but also to prepare a work plan for their future activities following up on the Conference outcomes.

Alina Bezhenar, my history of involvement in the CEHAPE

I think that CEHAPE is part of my biography now. Since I was 16 years old I have been involved. The development of CEHAPE has been a long and interesting process. Every day I am becoming more and more inspired by it.
In June 2004 I was a Youth Delegate at the 4th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health in Budapest. Since that time I could not imagine my life without my input into youth participation. CEHAPEplays an important part in my activities.
In 2007 I was selected to be an International CEHAPE Youth Delegate. Since that time I have participated in High Level Preparations for the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health in Parma, 10-12th of March 2010.
Now I am coordinating the preparations for the CEHAPE Youth Network’s participation at the Parma Conference.

Kyle Worgan, my history of involvement in the CEHAPE

Hello! My name is Kyle Worgan. I have been involved in the CEHAPE/ Health Environment and Youth Process since Luxemburg 2007. I was elected as an International Youth Representative at the IMR meeting in Vienna 2007 and am very committed to achieve positive changes and outcomes in European Environment and Health. Environment, Transport and Health has always been the topic that I am most passionate about. Prior to the CEHAPE process I was part of my schools Pupil Council, then I also became part of my Local Authority. I found this work particularly rewarding as I could meet with individuals and help them with their problems. I was then elected to the National Youth parliament and helped lead talks in the Environment and Transport Committee, lobbying the government, which achieved a Ј30 million investment to lower the cost of public transport for young people in Scotland. I have worked closely with the UK government in creating the CEHAPE strategy for the UK which is now a green paper. I have also been representing the network and its views at many European meetings like the EEHC and the CEHAPE task force. For the Future I strongly believe in the network becoming a more independent, semi-autonomous, organisation continuing to have an input in high level meetings working with governments and organisations to ultimately attain a better life for the children and people of Europe.

Jovana Dodos, my history of involvement in the CEHAPE

My name is Jovana Dodos and I am a member of Government committee for establishing Children Environment and Health Action Plan in Republic of Serbia since May 2008. I was Serbian Youth Delegate on United Nations Youth Assembly „Global Road Safety” in Geneva in 2007. where I became a youth ambassador in UN. After that I have shown great results in implementation of Youth Declaration for Road Safety in my country and I was invited to join CEHAPE team. Since then I am in charged with duties of Secretary for Regional Priority Goal 2 on accidents, injuries and improvement of physical activity of children. I also work as an assistant for road safety campaign. In summer 2008 my job was to organize a Youth preparatory meeting for the Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health in Serbia and I got an excellent opportunity to join CEHAPE International Youth Network. I became CEHAPE International Youth Representative and from that period I took a part in different kinds of conferences and youth meeting related with Environment and Health issue on European level. I am highly motivated to continue with my present work and I hope I will have much more opportunities to collaborate with WHO in future. Nowadays Environmental issues are one of the most important things to consider, and I want to play an active role in finding appropriate solutions for them.

Ildiko Almasi, my history of involvement in the CEHAPE

My name is Ildikó Almási but everyone calls me simply Alma since nursery. I got in contact with the CEHAPE process and youth participation in 2004 during the Fourth Ministerial Conference on Health and Environment. The Hungarian Ministry of Health wrote a tender searching for 10 young people with interest in environment and health to coordinate the work of the first youth parlaiment, and I applied for the position. Fortunately they chose me as a memeber of this youth group. In the frame of the conference they introduced the Budapest Declaration and the CEHAPE to us which are very important documents from the view of youth participation. Since then I’ve been involved in the process as a national youth delegate, buti n 2007 in the Luxemburgh meeting I applied to be elected as international youth representative. This meant hard work in a small group to create and ellaborate on the Youth Friendly CEHAPE which was launched in 2007 during the Intergovernmental Midterm Review. The elections of our network took place there as well, where we (Alina, Rena, Kyle and me) were appointed. Since then I’ve been representing the network on an international level participating in the meetings of the European Environment and Health Comittee and the CEHAPE task force. I’m very dedicated to this work and in my future i can imagine working in collaboration with WHO further on projects like CEHAPE.