Guyana Sustainable Development and Environmental Health Project

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Guyana Sustainable Development and Environmental
Health Project

• Dr. Teófilo Monteiro
• Guyana Environmental Health Advisor

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The Poverty Reduction Programme Medium-Term
proposals

• Local Government
• the identification and preparation of landfill
  sites in Regions 3 and 4
• Sanitation
• establishing garbage dumps sites in towns
• in collaboration with local government bodies,
  contracting garbage collection services to the
  private sector
• creating public awareness and encouraging
  recycling programmes,
• enforcing anti-littering laws with penalties.

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• Water
• reduction of water leakage to 39.4
• the provision of water to 52.1 of the hinterland
  communities
• initiation of service to over 10,000 new
  customers
• Integrated and participatory approach on WSH to
  hinterland communities

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Guyana Minister of Health Outlines Priorities at
2005 World Health Assembly

• communicable diseases,
• chronic diseases such as diabetes and cancer,
• maternal and child health,
• water and sanitation,
• continuing immunization coverage

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Guyanas CCS

• Influencing policy, action and spending
• Strengthening the brokerage role of PAHO between
  multiple partners in health working towards a
  common agenda
• Improving the quality of technical evidence to
  support shifts in policies/strategies
• Filling information gaps in areas where effective
  public health intervention exists
• Monitoring health sector performance.
• Building capacity in the Ministry of Health for
  implementation of evaluation of methodologies
• Resource mobilization

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Guyana Sustainable Development and Environmental
Health Project

• To ensure effective incorporation of "sustainable
  development and environmental health" into
  national policies and actions. This should
  include political, scientific, legal and
  regulatory frameworks for the management of human
  environments.

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Expected Results to 06-07

• Contribute to implement the National
  Environmental Health System and to achieve the
  MDG.
• Support the preparation of EH proposal policy
• Update/Upgrade the environmental health norms and
  standards
• Solid waste, Sanitation and Water
• Review the country capacity to implement norms
  and standards
• Strength alliances for promotion dissemination
  of knowledge in technologies in EH
• Support the implementation EH surveillance

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• Increase the conceptual and analytical capacity
  for environmental risk prevention and control.
• Prepare instructional material and offer
  instruction course in EH with at least 25
  teachers upgraded on EH issues at UG.
• Prepare Toxicological Center Guideline
• Support the Health Housing Strategy in Guyana
• Support the development of Hygiene Sanitation
  School Strategies
• Support the Development of Community Based
  projects with emphasis in the MDG
• Support the implementation of Healthy Settings
  Initiatives
• Development of Occupational Safety and Health
  Epidemiological Surveillance

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• Promote Public awareness and community
  participating on environmental and sustainable
  development practices
• Support the capacitating of 200 eco/youth leaders
  on PEC
• Promote the functioning of an Ecoclubs and Health
  Clubs network
• Promote 2 meeting per year with the Media
  Network.
• Organize at least 3 EH related Days celebrations
  per year

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• Resources Mobilization, Interagency Projects and
  Sub-regional networking on SDE to enhance the
  country policies on MDG.
• Promote international, regional and sub-regional
  commitments/projects among GO NG agencies
  towards the MDG
• Organize at least 2 TCC especially between border
  countries. (Including among others Suriname and
  Brazil).
• Develop at least two Interagency/Sub-Regional
  Projects related to MDG.
• By the end of 2007 resources have been mobilized
  to implement projects to Strength capacity on EH,
  Water Surveillance or S Sectoral Analysis of S
  Waste Guy, 04.

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CHALLENGES AND CRITICAL ISSUES

• MoH Continued Commitment on EH strategies
• Adequate technical capacity within MoH and
  partner agencies
• Coordination among stakeholders (donors!)
• 36 Less Resources Compared with BPB 04-05
• Support of Regional Programs

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