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<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br>crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="3"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Call for Nominations: Solutions for Global Health <br>
<br></span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Global South-South Development Expo 2009</span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" color="navy"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></b></p>

<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Website: <a href="http://www.paho.org/gssdexpo09" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">www.paho.org/gssdexpo09</span></font></a> <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></span></b></span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Deadline for submission: October 30^th 2009</span></font></b></p>

<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The World Health Organization and the Special Unit for South-South Cooperation of the United Nations Development Program - UNDP</span></font></b></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This Call for nominations is looking for initiatives that provided an effective solution to a public health problem by succeeding on the basis of :<br>
<i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Leadership, Innovation and Partnership.</span></i><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></span></b></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Who can participate?</span></font></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Any public or private institution, group or project that have made significant contributions to human development in the global South and that have provided solutions to address Global Health that could be replicated, scaled up or adapted across developing countries. <br>
<br>The South Development Solution (SDS) could be a Southern-grown solution, a South–South partnership solution, a North-South-South triangular partnership solution, a South-South-Multilateral Organization solution, a Public-Private partnership solution and/or combination of these.</span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://new.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1792&Itemid=1563" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Criteria for nomination submission</span></font></a><br>
</span></font></i></b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://new.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1792&Itemid=1563" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://new.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1792&Itemid=1563</span></font></a></span></font><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></i></p>

<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br></span></font></i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">An independent committee will review all submissions to select the three South Development Initiatives that has provided an effective solution to:<br>
<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Public Health problem</span></b> <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">by succeeding on the basis of</span></b> <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">leadership, innovation, and partnership</span></b>.</span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Please be sure how these attributes apply to your initiative:  </span></font></i></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span>1.<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">       </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">South priority/demand driven </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span>2.<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">       </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">South ownership </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span>3.<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">       </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">South leadership </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span>4.<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">       </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Broad-based partnership </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span>5.<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">       </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Innovation </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span>6.<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">       </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Efficiency </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span>7.<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">       </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sustainability </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span>8.<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">       </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Scalability </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The selected solutions in Global Health will receive:</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Symbol" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">An opportunity to exhibit  the initiative at the Global South-South Development Expo in the World Bank Main Complex </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Symbol" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The possibility to interact with partners and donors interested to fund or replicate the initiative in other developing countries. </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Symbol" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">To receive a Commemorative plaque at the Special Ceremony with World Leaders. </span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">South-South Development Solutions Forum on Global Health - Preliminary Agenda</span></font></b></p>

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