Deadline: 30-Jun-21
WHO is now inviting applications for Healthy Islands Recognition 2021 under the ‘best practice’ and ‘best proposal’ categories.
The Healthy Islands Award scheme for health promotion projects started in 2011. It was intended to encourage PICs to innovate and demonstrate effective and efficient ways of promoting and protecting the health of their populations.
World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes the great work being carried out by health and community leaders to achieve the vision of Healthy Islands, that is to make the Pacific islands places where:
- children are nurtured in body and mind
- environments invite learning and leisure
- people work and age with dignity
- ecological balance is a source of pride, and
- the ocean which sustains us is protected.
Recognition
- Best Practice Recognition will be given to two current or completed projects or programmes that embrace and describe efforts in one, two, or all of the following categories:
- Health in All policy action
- Community-based effort
- Partnerships (civil society, public sector, industry, etc.)
- Emergency Preparedness Response to COVID 19
- Recipients will receive:
- WHO Healthy Islands Recognition plaque and a certificate
- USD10 000 to strengthen/enhance activities, broaden scope or further develop the project or programme according to the proposal
- Best Proposal Recognition will be given to two innovative new projects or programmes in the following categories:
- Community-based effort
- Partnerships (civil society, public sector, industry, etc.)
- Recipients will receive:
- WHO Healthy Islands Recognition Certificate
- Support up to USD10 000 for implementation of the proposed new project or programme.
Eligibility Criteria
Governments, local authorities (city councils, provinces, districts and villages), communities, organizations (including schools, workplaces, and faith-based groups) and civil society groups in the 22 Pacific island countries and areas are eligible to submit reports or proposals for these. Projects or programmes that are already recipients of other forms of WHO recognition are also eligible. However, priorities in selection will be given to those that have not received any WHO recognition in the past two years.
For more information, visit https://www.who.int/northernmarianaislands/news/releases/24-03-2021-call-for-application-who-healthy-islands-recognition-2021