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What is the SDG Investment Fair?
Launched in 2018, the Fair has become a leading platform to facilitate dealmaking in SDG investment, with over US$11 billion worth of projects in infrastructure, green energy, and agribusiness presented so far. Now in its 8th edition, twenty countries across all regions have been showcased as SDG investment destinations.

💥Hosted by the Financing for Sustainable Development Office of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the Fair facilitates a range of investment promotion activities in New York City, as well as capacity building at the national level to enhance the investment readiness and bankability of projects and SDG financing vehicles in participating countries.

💥The Fair supports countries with the preparation, structuring, and mapping of countries' priority SDG investment projects through workshops, technical assistance, and capacity-building tools.

“The SDG Investment Fair … has helped the Kenyan Government to showcase priority investment opportunities in Kenya across multiple sectors to a global audience of investors, financiers and technical experts,” said Stephen Jackson, UN Resident Coordinator in Kenya after participating in the Fair.

💥The Fair in Numbers

11 billion USD worth of project investments.
7 SDG Investment Fairs held since 2018.
22 countries showcased.
~5k key actors engaged in the SDG financing network.

Benefits for Participating Countries:

Access a ‘one-stop-shop’ platform for brokering investments and knowledge​:
The Fair offers space to pitch investment projects, one-on-one investor exchanges, knowledge sharing, and technical assistance.

💥Network with investors and other key players​:
Tap into the wider network of banks, investors, development agencies, and advisory partners, including members of the Global Investors for Sustainable Development (GISD) Alliance.

Place your country’s investment opportunities on the map:​
Raise awareness of investment opportunities to a growing pool of investors seeking opportunities to make a positive impact, mitigate systemic risks, and meaningfully contribute to achieving the SDGs.

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WHO Manifesto for a healthy recovery from COVID-19

Actionables to the prescriptions of the WHO IManifesto

23 July 2020

These “actionables” are practical steps for implementing the prescriptions of the WHO Manifesto for a healthy recovery from COVID-19. They aim at creating a healthier, fairer and greener world while investing to maintain and resuscitating the economy hit by the effects of COVID-19.

Policy makers, national and local decision-makers and a wide array of other actors wishing to contribute to a healthy recovery can now take decisive steps by shaping the way we live, work and consume. Effects on environmental degradation and pollution and climate change will be wide ranging. WHO and partner organizations have since long been developing substantive guidance and provide support for building healthier environments for healthier populations. 

A comprehensive set of key actionables for achieving a healthier environments is provided accordingly. Their prioritization will depend upon the local context and situation. New investments and reconsideration of priorities in the context of recovery from COVID-19 present unique opportunities for shaping healthier environments and scaling up actions accordingly.

Actionables for a healthy, green recovery

1) Protect and preserve the source of human health: Nature.

Biological Diversity

• Implement and update National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) in line with the 2011-2020 Strategic Plan for Biodiversity and the 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets.
• Incorporate biodiversity values, ecosystem protection and the ‘value of nature’ into national and regional policies, strategies and programmes, including in public health policies and in national accounting and reporting systems.
• Eliminate or reform incentives, including subsidies that are harmful to biodiversity, including those that promote monoculture production systems.
• Avoid ecosystem loss and degradation and promote ecosystem integrity and resilience and protection of species.Limit or control human-wildlife contact to reduce the risk of infectious diseases, including zoonotic and vector-borne diseases.
• Promote agrobiodiversity and the use of integrated pest management to reduce the need for chemical pesticides and herbicides.

Climate Change

• Mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other climate changing pollutants like black carbon for example through better energy-use choices, agricultural practices, transport, food, city compactness and industrial technology use and practices.
• Implement sustainable infrastructure development and spatial planning to avoid locking societies into greenhouse gas-intensive emission pathways that may be difficult or very costly to change.
• Establish and enforce air quality standards, in line with WHO’s Air Quality Guidelines.
• Adopt very low energy building codes for new buildings and retrofit established buildings.
• Improve the efficiency of material use, recycling and re-use of materials and products and increase overall reduction in product demand.
• Provide climate resilient health and sustainable infrastructure, technologies and services. These may include water and sanitation services, energy supply and waste management technologies.
• Reduce deforestation and implement afforestation and sustainable forest management.
• Ensure and promote enabling environments for behaviour change related to choices of energy use, transport, living, and food, waste generation and general consumption.

Sanitation

• Develop and implement multi-sectoral sanitation policies which include sanitation safety planning, treatment of faecal sludge and wastewater, and reuse in agriculture.

 Air Pollution

• Develop coherent multi-sectoral policies and actions across transport, industry, power generation, waste and wastewater management, agriculture, housing and land use sectors for preventing air pollution. Also develop and implement policies to ensure clean fuels and technologies for cooking, heating and lighting in households.
  

Chemicals

• Implement the WHO Chemicals Road Map to enhance health sector engagement in the sound management of chemicals.
• Implement the chemicals and waste-related multilateral environmental agreements, particularly their health protective aspects, e.g.:  
  • Minamata Convention on Mercury.
  • Basel Convention on trans-boundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal.
  • on the prior informed consent procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade.
  • Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
• Implement the International Health Regulations (2005), a legally binding agreement providing a framework to better  prevent,  prepare  for  and  respond  to  public  health  events  and  emergencies  of  potential international  concern,  including  chemical events.

2) Invest in essential services, from water and sanitation to clean energy in healthcare facilities.

Water

• Provide and promote the use of safe drinking water in communities, schools, health care facilities, workplaces and public places.
• Ensure implementation of drinking-water quality regulations and standards.
• Protect drinking-water supplies using Water Safety Plans (WSPs).
• Include safe and sustainable drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in relevant health policies, strategies and programmes.

Sanitation

• Implement sanitation safety planning.
• Support households to incrementally improve their sanitation facilities to meet minimum safety requirements.
• Promote access to safe toilets in schools, health care facilities, workplaces and public places.
• Avoid open defecation and adopt safe sanitation facilities.

Hygiene

• Promote and support the installation of handwashing facilities in homes and institutions such as schools, workplaces and health care facilities.
• Enforce handwashing facilities in public places, food establishments and markets, and include them in routine inspection and monitoring schemes.
• Make soap and water available to households, institutions and public places. Handwashing facilities with soap and water should be available close to (usually within 5 m) sanitation facilities.
• Promote washing hands with soap at critical times, such as after defecation, after child cleaning  and before preparing food.

Clean energy

• Provide and use clean and safe cooking, heating and lighting solutions.
• Replace traditional household solid fuel stoves with lower-emission cookstoves that are as clean as possible [10, 11, 31].
• Improve energy efficiency of household appliances, buildings, lighting, heating and cooling.
• Encourage electrification using renewable sources such as solar-, hydro- and wind-based electricity.

Healthy, safe and resilient workplaces for all

• Implement national policies and action plans on occupational safety and health.
• Scale up coverage with essential interventions and basic occupational health services of all workers for primary prevention of occupational and work-related diseases and injuries and promote healthier and safer workplaces, including for migrant and contractual workers and those in the informal economy.
• Build workplace resilience to public health emergencies and outbreaks of infectious diseases in all economic sectors.

Additional actions specific to health care facilities

• Implement or strengthen Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) in health care facilities through a range of occupational health and patient safety measures.
• Ensure availability of sufficient and safe water at all times for drinking, food preparation, personal hygiene, medical activities, cleaning and laundry.
• Ensure safety of water for drinking, cooking, personal hygiene, medical activities, cleaning and laundry for the purpose intended.
• Provide sufficient water-collection points and water-use facilities in the health care setting to allow convenient access to, and use of, water for medical activities, drinking, personal hygiene, food preparation, laundry and cleaning.
• Provide adequate, accessible and appropriate toilets for patients, staff and carers.
• Ensure rapid and safe wastewater disposal.
• Ensure safe segregation, collection, transportation, storage, treatment and disposal of health care waste.
• Promote correct use of water, sanitation and waste facilities.
• Develop national programmes and healthcare facility policies on occupational health for health workers.
• Build capacities to ensure occupational safety and health and work improvements of health workers and other workers, including in public health emergencies.
• Build and renovate healthcare facilities in an environmentally responsible, climate resilient and sustainable way.
• Consider as much as possible options for waste minimization, environmentally preferable purchasing and green procurement, and safe reuse, recycling and recovery.

3) Ensure a quick healthy energy transition.

• Rapidly transition away from fossil fuel combustion (oil, coal, fossil gas) for large-scale energy production, and diesel generators for small-scale production.
• Increase the use of, and financial support for, low-emission fuels and energy sources, and renewable combustion-free power sources (like solar or wind); use incentives.
• Increase reliance on the co-generation of heat and power, and distributed energy generation (e.g. mini-grids and rooftop solar power generation).
• Provide support to employees, communities and industries in transitioning from a carbon-intense to a zero-carbon economy in the form of inclusive participatory decision-making, training programmes, social security schemes, long-term transition plans and financial support.

4) Promote healthy, sustainable food systems.

• Develop or update national food-based dietary guidelines through the full integration of environmental sustainability elements in each of the guideline’s recommendations, according to national contexts.
• Strengthen local food production and processing, especially by smallholder and family farmers, where appropriate.
• Promote diets which are based on a variety of unprocessed or minimally processed foods, include wholegrains, legumes, nuts and an abundance and variety of fruits and vegetables and which can include moderate amounts of eggs, dairy, poultry and fish, and small amounts of red meat.
• Promote the diversification of crops including underutilized traditional crops, applying sustainable food production and natural resource management practices.
• Consider use of trade policy, including instruments such as tariffs and quotas, to improve sustainable food supply.
• Implement policies and actions to create healthy, safe and sustainable food environments (such as strengthening of food control systems, restricting marketing of foods contributing to unhealthy unsustainable diets, nutrition labelling policies, fiscal policies, public food procurement policies, reformulation to gradually reduce saturated fat, sugars and salt/sodium and trans-fat from foods and beverages).
• Improve storage, preservation, transport, and distribution technologies and infrastructure to reduce seasonal food insecurity, food and nutrient loss and waste.
• Preserve fish habitats and promote sustainable fisheries.

5) Build healthy, liveable cities.

City design

• Integrate health into urban planning policies to deliver highly connected, mixed-use and compact neighbourhoods that are economically and socially viable and that promote active living, sustainable mobility, energy efficiency, healthy diets and access to essential services.
• Prioritize active and sustainable mobility as preferred mode of travel in relevant transport, spatial and urban planning policies.
• Improve walking and cycling infrastructure for people of all ages and abilities and create citywide access to safer walking, biking, nature, public spaces and public transport to support mobility, physical activity, recreation, access to services and social interactions, and to reduce the use of energy and resources.
• Improve access to good-quality public and green open spaces for people of all ages and abilities including accessible and safe play areas and recreational spaces for children and young people.
• Plan places that are more resilient to climate change and natural disasters.

Social inclusiveness and cohesion

• Create more socially inclusive places and spaces through a variety in spatial planning, such as in land parcel size, forms of land tenure, and size of housing.
• Develop a common vision for social cohesion and health equity by adopting a people-centred “right to health” framework that includes the right to access, use and transform urban environments.

Clean air

• Ensure cleaner air through implementing interventions in polluting sectors, such as in transport and industry, and through access to cleaner fuels and technologies for cooking, heating and lighting, adequate housing equipment and infrastructure development.

Access to adequate water, sanitation, hygiene, waste management and food

• Provide well-managed water, sanitation and hygiene facilities, adequate waste management and access to safe and healthy food.

Housing

• Ensure access to affordable housing that is not crowded, where indoor temperatures and thermal insulation are adequate, that is equipped with safety devices, and where disease vectors are controlled.

6) Stop using taxpayers money to fund pollution.

• Stop subsidies on fossil fuels, such as for power generation and transport.
• Subsidize or exempt tax of clean energy and fuels such as solar-, hydro- and wind-based electricity.
• Embed environmental and health benchmarks in the financial recovery packages to COVID-19, e.g. by including ‘do no harm’ principles in the financial taxonomy of recovery packages and by actively investing in low-carbon and job-intensive sectors, including the health sector.

Cross-cutting actions

• Strengthen and support implementation of the Health in All Policies approach at the national and subnational level.
• Mainstream health and wellbeing, throughout all public service planning with, specific consideration to people in vulnerable situations such as migrants, refugees, internally displaced people, people in informal settlements etc.
• Support the effective engagement and direct participation of communities in planning and policy development.
• Conduct health, economic and environmental impact assessments of future and existing policies and interventions.
• Collaborate across sectors for managing environmental determinants of health.
• Allocate resources across sectors to account for the expected health impacts of sector-based policies. Use fiscal and financial mechanisms to influence environmental determinants of health through investments in adequate housing, energy efficiency, cycling and pedestrian networks, and mass transit, as well as taxation of unhealthy products and practices.
• Monitor and track risks to health and wellbeing of different population groups; monitor the adoption and health impacts of policies and investments using timely data and targeted indicators; disaggregate by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts.

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Global research on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) -WHO

FYI: WHO is gathering the latest scientific findings and knowledge on coronavirus disease (COVID-2019) and compiling it in a database. We update the database daily from searches of bibliographic databases, hand searches of the table of contents of relevant journals, and the addition of other relevant scientific articles that come to our attention. The entries in the database may not be exhaustive and new research will be added regularly.











Database of publications on coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

You can search the WHO database of publications on coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Articles are searchable by author, key word (title, author, journal), journal, or by general topic. The database automatically displays the most recent articles. To see all articles in the database, select “Show all.” The database is updated daily, Monday through Friday.



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Source: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/global-research-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov

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WHO: Emerging respiratory viruses, including nCoV: methods for detection, prevention, response and control

FYI: This course provides a general introduction to nCoV and emerging respiratory viruses and is intended for public health professionals, incident managers and personnel working for the United Nations, international organizations and NGOs.
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La version française de ce cours est disponible sur : https://openwho.org/courses/introduction-au-ncov

A Simplified Chinese version of the course is available here: https://openwho.org/courses/introduction-to-ncov-ZH

La versión en español de este curso está disponible aquí : https://openwho.org/courses/introduccion-al-ncov

Overview: This course provides a general introduction to emerging respiratory viruses, including novel corona viruses. By the end of this course, you should be able to describe:

The nature of emerging respiratory viruses, how to detect and assess an outbreak, strategies for preventing and controlling outbreaks due to novel respiratory viruses;

What strategies should be used to communicate risk and engage communities to detect, prevent and respond to the emergence of a novel respiratory virus.

There are resources attached to each module to help you dive further into this topic.

Learning objective: Describe the fundamental principles of emerging respiratory viruses and how to effectively respond to an outbreak.

Course duration: Approximately 3 hours.

Certificates: No certificate available at this time.

Attention:
WHO teams are working on additional modules which will be uploaded in the coming days. You will be notified when new modules and videos are uploaded. Currently, the materials are offered as slide decks.

The course will offer a certificate in the future, after all of the modules have been published and a quiz has been added to each module.

The course materials are currently being translated into other languages.

Course contents

Emerging respiratory viruses, including nCoV: Introduction:This brief introduction provides an overview of emerging respiratory viruses, including nCoV.

Module A: Introduction to Emerging respiratory viruses, including nCoV:Overall learning objective: To be able to explain why an emerging respiratory virus, including nCoV are a global threat to human health

Module B: Detecting Emerging respiratory viruses, including nCoV: Surveillance and Laboratory investigation:Overall learning objective: To describe how to detect and assess an emerging respiratory virus outbreak

Module C: Risk Communication and Community Engagement:Overall learning objective: To describe what strategies should be used to communicate risk and engage communities to detect, prevent and respond to nCoV

Module D: Preventing and Responding to an emerging respiratory virus, including nCoV:Overall learning objective: To describe strategies for preventing and controlling emerging respiratory pathogens, including nCoV outbreaks.

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that are known to cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).

A novel coronavirus (CoV) was identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China. This is a new coronavirus that has not been previously identified in humans.  

Source https://openwho.org/courses/introduction-to-ncov

WHO Update: World experts and funders set priorities for COVID-19 research

12 February 2020
News release
Geneva, Switzerland

Leading health experts from around the world have been meeting at the World Health Organization’s Geneva headquarters to assess the current level of knowledge about the new COVID-19 disease, identify gaps and work together to accelerate and fund priority research needed to help stop this outbreak and prepare for any future outbreaks.

The 2-day forum was convened in line with the WHO R&D Blueprint – a strategy for developing drugs and vaccines before epidemics, and accelerating research and development while they are occurring.

“This outbreak is a test of solidarity -- political, financial and scientific. We need to come together to fight a common enemy that does not respect borders, ensure that we have the resources necessary to bring this outbreak to an end and bring our best science to the forefront to find shared answers to shared problems. Research is an integral part of the outbreak response,” said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “I appreciate the positive response of the research community to join us at short notice and come up with concrete plans and commitment to work together.”

The meeting, hosted in collaboration with GloPID-R (the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness) brought together major research funders and over 300 scientists and researchers from a large variety of disciplines. They discussed all aspects of the outbreak and ways to control it including: the natural history of the virus, its transmission and diagnosis;
animal and environmental research on the origin of the virus, including management measures at the human-animal interface; epidemiological studies; clinical characterization and management of disease caused by the virus; infection prevention and control, including best ways to protect health care workers; research and development for candidate therapeutics and vaccines; ethical considerations for research; and integration of social sciences into the outbreak response.

“This meeting allowed us to identify the urgent priorities for research. As a group of funders we will continue to mobilize, coordinate and align our funding to enable the research needed to tackle this crisis and stop the outbreak, in partnership with WHO,” said Professor Yazdan Yazdanpanah, chair of GloPID-R. “Equitable access – making sure we share data and reach those most in need, in particular those in lower and middle-income countries, is fundamental to this work which must be guided by ethical considerations at all times.”

During the meeting, the more than 300 scientists and researchers participating both in person and virtually agreed on a set of global research priorities. They also outlined mechanisms for continuing scientific interactions and collaborations beyond the meeting which will be coordinated and facilitated by WHO. They worked with research funders to determine how necessary resources can be mobilized so that critical research can start immediately.

The deliberations will form the basis of a research and innovation roadmap charting all the research needed and this will be used by researchers and funders to accelerate the research response.

GloPID-R is a global alliance of international research funding organizations investing in preparedness and response to epidemics.

https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/12-02-2020-world-experts-and-funders-set-priorities-for-covid-19-research

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WHO’s standard recommendations for the general public to reduce exposure to and transmission of a range of illnesses are as follows, which include hand and respiratory hygiene, and safe food practices:

Frequently clean hands by using alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water;
When coughing and sneezing cover mouth and nose with flexed elbow or tissue – throw tissue away immediately and wash hands;
Avoid close contact with anyone who has fever and cough;
If you have fever, cough and difficulty breathing seek medical care early and share previous travel history with your health care provider;
When visiting live markets in areas currently experiencing cases of novel coronavirus, avoid direct unprotected contact with live animals and surfaces in contact with animals;
The consumption of raw or undercooked animal products should be avoided. Raw meat, milk or animal organs should be handled with care, to avoid cross-contamination with uncooked foods, as per good food safety practices.

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