Oct 22, 2010 to Oct 25, 2010 - Cairo, Egypt

Forum for Health, Environment and Land Towards a Collective Action

— filed under: Environment, Rights to land, Health

The present forum comes as a folow up of the first Forum for health and Environment in 2008 which was called for by the Association for Health and Environmental Development (AHEd) in collaboration with the People’s Health Movement (PHM) and organized in coordiantion with Palestinian Relief Society (PRS), Plaestine and Arab Resource Collective (ARC), Lebanon. It was attended by 182 participants from 18 countries. In addition, it comes as a follow up of the ‘Land Forum’ which was organized by the Coalition of Habitat International Coalition Middle East and North Africa in May 2008.

The main objectives for the 2nd edition of the forum are:
-    To create channels through which people’s voices, especially those are most marginalized, can be heard and influence the social, economic and health policies that shape their lives and livelihood and health.
-    To consolidate a policy dialogue among different stakeholder in the region.
-    To enhance the networking and communication among different civil society across the regions and between them and other stakeholders.
-    To assist a process of needs identification for further building the capacity of the non-state non- profit sector in the region.
-    To create a platform for solidarity in the region in addition of joint action by the civil society actors and social movements especially for protecting people’s health, advocating people’s social, economic and political rights.

The Forum will be held in Cairo in a public facility namely Ain Shams University Conference Center located in the guest house (Dar Al-Diafa) of Ain Shams University (it is neighboring Ain Shams University Hospital in Abbassiah Square, Cairo)