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In September 2010, (on photo) Alina Bezhenar (WHO CEHAPE International Youth Delegate) and Marika Tsereteli ( CEHAPE Youth Representative from Georgia) participated in Workshop on safe and healthy walking and cycling in urban areas in Batumi,Georgia. They had a successful presentation about Parma outcomes of the Physical Activity and Nutrition project workshop, part of a large joint programme between WHO and the European Commission.

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60th WHO Regional Committee Meeting in Moscow

In September 2010, WHO held the 60th Regional Committee Meeting in Moscow.
This is the annual meeting where all European Ministers of Health and other key stakeholders meet to review the work of the past year and plan for the next. Alina Bezhenar (WHO CEHAPE International Youth Delegate) was asked to attend the meeting on behalf of the Network and had the chance to take the floor and gave a short intervention about youth participation in the health and environment process. Her intervention is also included in the final report of the Regional Committee in Moscow.
(On photo: Vladimir Putin, Premier Minister of Russia, gave a speech at the 60th Regional Committe Meeting in Moscow, September 2010)

Protocol on Water and Health in 2010

Jovana Dodos (on photo) is our WHO CEHAPE International Youth Delegate. She is our contact person in the Protocol on Water and Health process.

Events happened since the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health:
- Working Group on Water and Health meeting in Geneva, May 2010. Jovana Dodos participated there on behalf of WHO CEHAPE Youth Network. She gave a successful presentation on youth involvement in water and health projects in Europe. Working group on Water and Health discussed the possibility of including youth in 2011-2013 Protocol on Water and Health.

Second Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol on Water and Health in Bucharest, November 2010.Our proposal of including youth in 2011-2013 Protocol on Water and Health made at the Working Group on Water and Health meeting in Geneva, May 2010 was included in Work Programme 2011-2013 of the Protocol.

(On photo) Jovana Dodos and Alina Bezhenar - our WHO CEHAPE International Youth Delegates, Desislava Taneva (CEHAPE Youth Representative from Bulgaria) together with young colleges from Romania- Diana Calin and Natalia Ciobanu from International Fund for Cooperation and Partnership of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea and Daria Catalui from Danube.EDU Youth think-and-do tank organization participated in the Second Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol on Water and Health in Bucharest. They had an excellent opportunity to organize Youth side event “Let’s share experience! Youth involvement in Environment and Health projects : How can Youth contribute to the Protocol on Water and Health 2011-2013?” and make several interventions from the floor during the Meeting.
Also, Jovana Dodos participated as panellist in Partners in Cooperation Session.


Other related events to water and health in 2010:
In October 2010 Nikola Panduric ( CEHAPE Youth Representative from Croatia) and Jovana Dodos (WHO CEHAPE International Youth Delegate) gave a presentation at the Workshop on promotion of food and water safety in the school system in Croatia. They had an excellent opportunity to speak on behalf of the Network and provide information on youth perspectives on water and health in schools.

We are back! Protocol on Water and Health

Dear Readers of our Blog!

We are finally back to update our Blog regularly!

We have lots of news to tell you!

Let's start! Since the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health held in Parma, Italy in March 2010 lots of events happened!

Since May 2010 our Network has been seriously involved in the process of Protocol on Water and Health (UNECE/WHO UN).


This Protocol introduces a social component into cooperation on water management. Water resources management should link social and economic development to the protection of natural ecosystems. Moreover, improving the water supply and sanitation is fundamental in breaking the vicious cycle of poverty.

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

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