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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE-CH link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#31849B' align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Series of civil society workshops and public briefings and debates<br>hosted / co-hosted by the Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2), 17-21 January 2022<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Beyond the agenda of the WHO Executive Board: <br>People’s realities, determinants of health, democratic governance…</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#31849B' align=center></span></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Dear </span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>colleagues at PHM</span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>In the week before the </span><a href="https://apps.who.int/gb/e/e_eb150.html"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>150th Session of the WHO Executive Board</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>, a series of meetings organized by the Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2) and some of its members </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>including PHM </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>will provide a space for sharing, assessing and debating health policy and governance challenges that go beyond the items covered by the formal agenda of WHO EB, bridging from health policies to people’s realities, addressing determinants of health and promoting democratic governance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Find below and </span><a href="https://g2h2.org/posts/january2022/"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>here</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'> the overview and more detailed outlines of the various sessions set up as a mix of public briefings and debates and closed civil society workshops and also include an intersectoral roundtable co-hosted by G2H2 as part of a broader team. Updates and documentations will be published on the G2H2 </span><a href="https://g2h2.org/posts/january2022/"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>website</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>. And get in touch with our secretariat or the session organizers to know more. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>We invite you to register now for the sessions you want to attend, using the separate registration forms for the </span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrd-moqzguEtYtTCScYnObLY1oyhPdWTQd"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#00007F;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>two closed civil society workshops</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>, the </span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VZS2FZaMRuSGzZCOMCt7eg"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#00007F;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>intersectoral roundtable</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'> and the </span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Gjj35NyLToiP-PlFQsvhkg"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#00007F;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>four public briefings and debates</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>. And thanks for helping us to promote the meetings, forwarding the announcement to your teams, partners and networks!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Best regards, and all the best for the new year!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Thomas, MMI </span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Network / G2H2 </span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Secretariat<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#31849B' align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Programme overview</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#31849B' align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Monday and Tuesday: Civil society workshops<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Monday, 17 January 2022, 13.00-14.30 and 15.00-16.30 CET </span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><br><b>Are global civil society organizations still relevant at the UN organizations?</b><br>Civil society workshop organized by IAHPC<br>Language: English<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Tuesday, 18 January 2022, 13.00-14.30 and 15.00-16.30 CET </span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><br><b>Back to Alma Ata: WHO, democratic space and citizens’ participation in shaping health policies</b><br>Civil society workshop organized by Viva Salud<br>Language: English<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Workshops set up as Zoom meetings: register </span></i><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrd-moqzguEtYtTCScYnObLY1oyhPdWTQd"><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>here</span></i></a><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><br>Programme details and contacts: see below, and </span></i><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>G2H2 </span></i><a href="https://g2h2.org/posts/january2022/"><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>website</span></i></a><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#31849B' align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Wednesday: Intersectoral roundtable<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Wednesday, 19 January 2022, 14.00-15.30 CET </span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><br><b>Our future at stake: The corporate capture of multilateralism</b><br>Roundtable co-hosted by G2H2 as part of the People’s Working Group on Multistakeholderism<br>Languages/interpretation: English, Spanish<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Public meeting set up as Zoom webinar: register </span></i><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VZS2FZaMRuSGzZCOMCt7eg"><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>here</span></i></a><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><br>Programme details and contacts: see below, and TNI </span></i><a href="https://www.tni.org/en/event/our-future-at-stake-the-corporate-capture-of-multilateralism"><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>website</span></i></a><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#31849B' align=center></span></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Wednesday to Friday: Public briefings and debates<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Wednesday, 19 January 2022, 16.00-17.30 CET</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><br><b>Health systems and pandemic response in Latin America: Lessons for the Pandemic Treaty debates</b><br>Public session organized by PHM/ALAMES<br>Languages/interpretation: English, Spanish<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Thursday, 20 January 2022, 13.00-14.30 CET</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><br><b>The “Universal Health and </b></span><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Preparedness</span></b><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'> Review”: Looking at the proposed new accountability mechanism from a civil society and global public health governance perspective</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><br>Public session organized by Save the Children<br>Language: English<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Thursday, 20 January 2022, 15.00-16.30 CET</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><br><b>Sustainable healthy diets: Why are they so crucial after COVID-19?</b><br>Public session organized by SID<br>Languages/interpretation: English, Spanish, French<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Friday, 21 January 2022, 15.00-16.30 CET</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><br><b>The pandemic treaty and the right to development: learning from COVID-19 lessons</b><br>Public session organized by G2H2 project team<br>Language: English<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Meetings set up as Zoom webinars: register </span></i><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Gjj35NyLToiP-PlFQsvhkg"><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>here</span></i></a><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><br>Programme details and contacts: see below, and G2H2 </span></i><a href="https://g2h2.org/posts/january2022/"><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>website</span></i></a><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#31849B' align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Session outlines</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#31849B' align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><img border=0 width=946 height=297 id="Bild_x0020_9" src="cid:image002.png@01D806BD.28199360"></span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#31849B' align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Monday, 17 January 2022, 13.00-14.30 and 15.00-16.30 CET<br>Civil society brainstorming/strategizing workshop (closed session)</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Are global civil society organizations still relevant at the UN organizations?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Escalating tensions between Member States and the UN organizations signal a decline of multilateralism and a return to the Westphalian system, marginalizing accredited civil society organizations and undercutting real progress towards sustainable global health policies and practices that benefit structurally vulnerable populations. So what role, if any, can global civil society play to make the deliberations and outcomes of UN organizations fit for 21st century purpose?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Global civil society drives a cosmopolitan vision of sustainable peace and human development. The UN has traditionally recognized civil society as a key partner in accomplishing its mission and goals. The ECOSOC and WHO Secretariats have divisions that accredit CSOs and facilitate their participation in member state meetings. Yet this participation is largely contingent on Member State support or withdrawal thereof. Unless member states take affirmative action to support the role of civil society in UN meetings, requesting that they be given a meaningful voice in deliberations, global civil society voices, already marginalized, will quickly become as irrelevant as the inter-agency cooperation framework – mandated by the UNGA to help member states achieve the SDGs. New geopolitical alignments are challenging these inter-agency collaborations, along with CSO space, voice, and funding, further endangering a sustainable global health and human rights agenda.<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Civil society workshop organized by: International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Programme details: </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>G2H2 </span><a href="https://g2h2.org/posts/january2022/"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>website</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Language: English<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Registration (civil society only): </span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrd-moqzguEtYtTCScYnObLY1oyhPdWTQd"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>here</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Contact for enquiries: Katherine Pettus, </span><a href="mailto:kpettus@iahpc.com"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>kpettus@iahpc.com</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><div style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#31849B' align=center></span></b></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Tuesday, 18 January 2022, 13.00-14.30 and 15.00-16.30 CET<br>Civil society brainstorming/strategizing workshop (closed session)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Back to Alma Ata: WHO, democratic space and citizens’ participation in shaping health policies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Community engagement and participation were at the heart of the Alma Ata Declaration in 1978. The fourth article of the Declaration states that “people have the right and duty to participate individually and collectively in the planning and implementation of their health care”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>More than 40 years later, this sounds like a faraway dream. Social movements and activists defending the right to health are facing increasing pressure all over the world and citizens’ control over health policy stands at an all time low. How can we change this trend? How can social movements and health activists be involved and participate in decision-making about national and local health governance? What can be done to create and enhance the democratic space for social movements defending the right to health in WHO’s Member States? And why should the WHO relate to these actors and questions? And how?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>In this civil society workshop, we want to think with the wider movement for the right to health about how we and the World Health Organization can strengthen the democratic space for the social movement for health and improve citizen’s control over health policy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Civil society workshop organized by: Viva Salu</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>d</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Programme details: </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>G2H2 </span><a href="https://g2h2.org/posts/january2022/"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>website</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Language: English<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Registration (civil society only): </span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrd-moqzguEtYtTCScYnObLY1oyhPdWTQd"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>here</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Contact for enquiries: David Verstockt, </span><a href="mailto:david@vivasalud.be"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>david@vivasalud.be</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'> / Jasper Thys, </span><a href="mailto:jasper.thys@vivasalud.be"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>jasper.thys@vivasalud.be</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#31849B' align=center></span></b></div><div style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><img border=0 width=946 height=532 id="Grafik_x0020_1" src="cid:image008.jpg@01D806BD.28199360"></span></b><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#31849B' align=center></span></b></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Wednesday, 19 January 2022, 14.00-15.30 CET<br>Intersectoral roundtable (public meeting)</span></b><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Our future at stake: The corporate capture of multilateralism<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>The roundtable aims to address the agenda of multistakeholderism promoted by the World Economic Forum and to initiate a dynamic exchange and contribute to building a dialogue between concerned social movements, affected sectors and governments. The roundtable will contest the vision and trajectory of the multistakeholder approach as the only way to address the multiple inter-related crises, and will explore the challenges to be faced in exposing the take-over of our common future by the actors of global corporate power and what is to be done about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Roundtable organized by the People’s Working Group on Multistakeholderism<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Languages/Interpretation: English, Spanish<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Website (TNI): </span><span style='color:#4BACC6'><a href="https://www.tni.org/en/event/our-future-at-stake-the-corporate-capture-of-multilateralism"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>here</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Registration: </span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrd-moqzguEtYtTCScYnObLY1oyhPdWTQd"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>here</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><div style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#31849B' align=center></span></b></div></div><div style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><img border=0 width=944 height=532 id="Grafik_x0020_4" src="cid:image011.jpg@01D806BD.28199360" alt="https://g2h2.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Jan2022dialogues2.png"></span></b><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#31849B' align=center></span></b></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Wednesday, 19 January 2022, 15.00-16.30 CET<br>Public briefing and debate</span></b><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Health systems and pandemic response in Latin America: Lessons for the Pandemic Treaty debates<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Latin America is the region that has been paying one of the highest prices in this pandemic, not only because of the policy of Covid-19 denial by some high-profile politicians, but also because of the legacy of international financial policies aimed at drastic reductions of public investment in health. Because of this, health systems and surveillance systems in Latin America have been weakened or even suppressed in some countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>These strategies, pursued by multilateral circles and rich countries in particular, have undermined WHO’s and PAHO’s authority and role in the world, and by doing so they have undermined the needs of Latin America for another kind of global governance in health, more democratic and inclusive.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>In this session, we want to explore if and how the process for a Pandemic Treaty can provide a space to push for reforms that could lead to a new framework of global governance. Different case studies have been developed at regional, national, and subnational levels: they provide illustration of experiences, barriers, and facilitated processes of social participation in identifying health solutions in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. These examples can provide instances of democratic control that could inspire an alternative perspective of health governance, as well as governance of intergovernmental and regional health institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>It is our conviction that also the global dimension of health governance might draw important lessons from such concrete experiences from Latin America, in relation to the preparedness and response to future pandemics, particularly if we want to look at the construction of health sovereignty and global equity in health. At the end of the discussion, we aim to have a better idea of how to influence international health organisations in a way to support the needs of everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Session organized by: People’s Health Movement and ALAMES<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Languages/Interpretation: English, Spanish<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Registration Zoom webinar: </span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Gjj35NyLToiP-PlFQsvhkg"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>here</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Contact for enquiries: Ana Vracar, </span><a href="mailto:ana@phmovement.org"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>ana@phmovement.org</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><div style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#31849B' align=center></span></b></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Thursday, 20 January 2022, 13.00-14.30 CET<br>Public briefing and debate</span></b><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>The “Universal Health and Preparedness Review”: Looking at the proposed new accountability mechanism from a civil society and global public health governance perspective<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>The Universal Health and Preparedness Review (UHPR) has been proposed by WHO as a means to increase accountability and transparency among Member States in gap identification and capacity building for better health emergency preparedness. The peer-review nature of the envisioned UHPR would ensure that key issues identified will be acted upon at the highest political levels of government and that relevant recommendations will be followed up upon and monitored on regular basis. It is envisioned that the UHPR will help establish a platform for multisectoral engagement across government and whole of society to review the nation’s health and preparedness progress and challenges.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>The objective of the session is to brief civil society organizations (CSO) and other actors on the Universal Health and Preparedness Review and to discuss options for the engagement of the civil society in the UHPR mechanism, notably using the lessons from CSO engagement in other accountability mechanisms such as the Universal Periodic Reviews.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Public session organized by: Save the Children<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Language: English<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Registration Zoom webinar: </span><span style='color:#215968'><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Gjj35NyLToiP-PlFQsvhkg"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>here</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Contact for enquiries: Margot Nauleau, </span><span style='color:#215968'><a href="mailto:margot.nauleau@savethechildren.org"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>margot.nauleau@savethechildren.org</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#31849B' align=center></span></b></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Thursday, 20 January 2022, 15.00-16.30 CET<br>Public briefing and debate</span></b><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Sustainable healthy diets: Why are they so crucial after COVID-19?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>The concept of diets has gained ground at different levels over the past few years. It has become a central element of discussion within the food and agriculture community, as well as in the health arena, especially under the framework of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition and the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. The concept of diets goes beyond the mere understanding of food as a product consumed in isolation. It rather embraces the diverse elements that constitute diets and assess how these might contribute to the health of individuals. Under a food systems approach, diets have been increasingly linked with the environmental and cultural aspect. Civil society platforms have long advocated for the unconditionality of a healthy planet for healthy diets. For their part, FAO and WHO have jointly developed guiding principles for supporting governments’ policies to transform food systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>These important efforts have sparked discussions on the need to incorporate terminology aimed to capture the interconnectedness between health, food, environment, culture, and society. It is through this nexus that the concept of “sustainable healthy diets” has emerged and affirmed itself. But multiple barriers to the implementation of these approaches remain, which are often reflected in negotiating outcomes. This policy dialogue aims to reflect on these barriers, and stimulate strategic discussions towards advancing the notion of “sustainable healthy diets”, while giving evidence on how this concept may indeed be key for driving systemic change in the political economies of food production, distribution, and consumption, particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Public session organized by: Society for International Development (SID)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Languages/interpretation: English – French – Spanish<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Registration Zoom webinar: </span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Gjj35NyLToiP-PlFQsvhkg"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>here</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Contact for enquiries: Magdalena Ackermann, </span><a href="mailto:mackermann@sidint.org"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>mackermann@sidint.org</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><div style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#31849B' align=center></span></b></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Friday, 21 January 2022, 15.00-16.30 CET<br>Public briefing and debate</span></b><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#31859C;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>The pandemic treaty and the right to development: Learning from COVID-19 lessons<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>In a historic special session of the World Health Assembly, the international community has unanimously decided to embark into negotiations for a new pandemic convention or other binding instrument, with the aim to better prepare and respond to future pandemic events. A certain enthusiasm has been triggered in global health circles by the novelty of this diplomatic route. The negotiating wind now has gained worldwide strength, but what sense of direction it will actually take does not yet seem to be very clear, due to a combination of missing evidence and thematic complexity. The World Health Assembly Special Session has indicated different possible routes, not necessarily converging.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>While it may be too early to assess the outcome of the pandemic treaty negotiations, it is necessary to recall some problematic issues that civil society organizations see looming at the horizon, building on the </span><a href="https://g2h2.org/posts/whypandemictreaty/"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>G2H2 report</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'> “The politics of a WHO pandemic treaty in a disenchanted world” launched in November 2021 and integrating an analysis of the debates at the World Health Assembly Special Session. Questions remain on the evidence about the need for a new treaty. Doubts also are triggered by the emerging cultural approach of the treaty narrative so far. Overall, in the multipolar competitive scenario of today’s international community, the main concerns hinge on the fact that this new potential legal instrument – with its explicitly advocated justification of tackling pandemic preparedness and response – may incarnate the implicit ideological function of preserving existing relations of power among nations, regardless of their failures, in the name of an old conception of global health security.<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Session organized by: G2H2 pandemic treaty project team<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Language: English<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Registration Zoom webinar: </span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Gjj35NyLToiP-PlFQsvhkg"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>here</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#215968;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Contact for enquiries: Nicoletta Dentico, </span><a href="mailto:ndentico@sidint.org"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#215968;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>ndentico@sidint.org</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#31849B' align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0097A0;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Stay safe and healthy!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0097A0;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Spread solidarity, not the virus!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0097A0;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB 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