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INSPIRE Edition 5 DECEMBER 2021
EDITION 5 DEC 2021
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Inside the Issue
KINSHASA PROCESS P.1
SDG CITIES P.4
16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM P.5
Global Conference Shanghai .
The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual international campaign Join us 10th December 2021 @1pm GMT.
After 18 months of negotiations Roland Schatz has announced the Kinshasa Process supporting Sustainable & Responsible Development of the Mining Sector.
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP P.2
GSPA -STUDENT FRAMEWORK
How do we create the future?
A call for action for students, to embrace social prescribing, personalised care, and sustainable development goals.
WHAT ARE THE 17 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS? P.3
AN AMBITIOUS PROJECT IN DRC WANTS TO ACHIEVE SDGS It was one day like no other in Nguma village in the bateke plateau, southwest of Kinshasa.The founder of the "United Nations Global Sustainability Index Institute" Roland Schatz returned on Friday, November 26 to honor his promise made to the students of EP Nguma in March 2021. Indeed, he promised them school supplies and toys for children.
WORLD HEALTH INNOVATION SUMMIT OUR STORY P.5-12
KINSHASA PROCESS
THE FIRST SDG CITIES CONFERENCE IN SHANGHAI ANNOUNCES SEVEN PILOT PROJECTS Shanghai, China, 4 November 2021 –The first Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Cities Conference co-hosted by UN-Habitat and the Municipality of Shanghai aimed at supporting 1000 cities become economically, socially and environmentally sustainable by 2030, announced seven new pilot projects. New pilot SDG Citieswere announced. They included Shanghai; La Paz, Bolivia; Vitoria Gasteiz, Basque, Spain; Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; Penang Bay, Malaysia; Menzel Ennour in Tunisia; and Kuwait City. They will be joined by ten more by the end of the year and will test an array of SDG Cities digital tools being availed by UN-Habitat and partners in areas of urban data, institutional capacity assessment and development and project preparation and financing.
GLOBAL SOCIAL PRESCRIBING ALLIANCE
SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE FOR PATIENTS AND POPULATIONS
Healthcare organisations should provide care that patients and populations need. This statement is so axiomatic that it hardly merits stating. And yet it is clear that much of the provision of healthcare is not as effective or efficient as it could be – at a patient or population level. Nor is it always based on population needs. Too much of healthcare is focused on hospital care. In many countries secondary and tertiary care centres are responsible for a disproportionate percentage of the healthcare spend. Medical education is still carried out predominantly in hospital settings and too many undergraduate and postgraduate trainees aspire to become hospital specialists rather than primary care generalists. Continue reading.
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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP CREATING THE FUTURE
Online open forum sessions: Friday January 28th, Friday April 29th, Friday July 29th, Friday September 30th, Friday December 30th 2022 @1pm UK GMT time For partnership & sponsorship contact: gareth@whis.uk
How do we create opportunities and scale our ideas in 2022? Our thought leadership OPEN sessions will take place on the last Friday of every month in 2022. We will look to the future and explore the following areas over the course of 2022: SDG3 Good Health & Wellbeing - moving from disease management to prevention, Healthcare - Economics and value creation opportunities, Investments - Financing SDG projects, Digital Healthcare, Health Innovation - for public and social good, Leadership, Climate Change, Media and Communications, The future of business alIgned to societal impact, Trust, The future of work.
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History
WHIS Vision WHIS aims to support our communities to implement and deliver all seventeen of the Sustainable Development Goals in every country in the world.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests. The SDGs build on decades of work by countries and the UN, including the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs In June 1992, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, more than 178 countries adopted Agenda 21, a comprehensive plan of action to build a global partnership for sustainable development to improve human lives and protect the environment. Member States unanimously adopted the Millennium Declaration at the Millennium Summit in September 2000 at UN Headquarters in New York. The Summit led to the elaboration of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to reduce extreme poverty by 2015.
The UNGSII FOUNDATION was created to assist and accelerate the implementation process. Their mission is to ensure that the world reaches its goal, at the latest, by 2030.
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With 55 percent of the world’s population living in urban areas, an additional 2.5 billion urban residents expected in the next 30 years, in combination with 65 percent of SDG targets being relevant to cities, it’s no surprise the battle for sustainable development will be won or lost in cities. A renewed vigour and global joint action towards accelerating the achievement of the SDGs in cities is required to mitigate climate change, adapt and build resilience, to recover from the pandemic in a way that is just and green, and to address increasing social inequality. Cities worldwide are demonstrating their commitment to implementing the SDGs and are reporting progress through Voluntary Local Review (VLR). - Continue.
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2021 marks the 30th anniversary of the Global 16 Days Campaign. Inspired by the original vision and history of the Campaign, which focused on raising awareness about violence against women (VAW), and considering the continuing impunity for femicide, this year the Campaign will focus on the issue of “femicide or the gender-related killing of women.” In 2021, in addition to the anniversary theme, the Campaign will continue its program activities to end gender-based violence (GBV) in the world of work by focusing on the link between domestic violence and the world of work, drawing on legal standards outlined in ILO Convention 190 (C190) and the actions put forward in Recommendation 206 (R206). COVID-19 has presented us with new challenges which call for individual and collective solutions. Let’s continue our efforts all year round from 16 to 365 days of activism, to advance the human rights of women. A world without violence is possible and this moment demands unparalleled courage and joint action to make this vision a reality. More information, including about upcoming events, and advocacy materials as well as opportunities to contribute to the anniversary celebrations will be disseminated by the Campaign soon Friday 10th December 2021 @1pm GMT you can join us as we discuss the campaign World Health Innovation Summit CIC under our theme "ACTION"
Moderator: Gareth Presch, CEO, WHIS Deirdre Carbery WHIS, Chair Expert Group, Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Sofia Karadima Investment Monitor Susanne Baars, MSc, MA. Global Thought Leader, Siemens Healthineers Anca del Rio, MSPH Del Rio, EIT Health Alumni Network EIT - European Institute of Innovation and Technology Alumi President Amir Hannan MBE Chairman, WHIS Terisa Tamang Dhairya Cancer Foundation Jennifer Kitenge WHIS, London Register. #16daysofactivism #SDGCities #HealthForAll #genderbasedviolence#TogetherWeInpsire #UNGSII #WHIS
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In 2015 the World Health Innovation Summit CIC was founded by Mr Gareth Presch. Based in the heart of Cumbria [UK] with an international career in healthcare systems, Gareth identified that people in the community would be better supported if they had more access to holistic solutions, in their locality. This is what we call community based personcentred care. Taking a Good Health & Wellbeing (SDG3) approach to person centred health, Gareth recognised that there were five key cornerstones (Pillars) of which all needed to be supported, at the same time, by the same people: Health, Economy, Education, Environment and Ecosystems. Gareth felt if people were more aware about how each Pillar impacted their daily lives, and ways in which to better understand them, then this could: 1. Help grow our economies (globally, nationally and locally) 2. Take pressures off our health and social services (staff and resources) 3. Create healthier & happier populations (improve people’s health & wellbeing) 4. Restore the balance to the environment 5. Create equal and safe opportunities 6. Support the most vulnerable people in our society These are now the WHIS Goals. Gareth also identified a serious gap when it came to the progress of innovation. Many local enterprises and voluntary organisations were already providing exemplar services in their localities - but were working in isolation.His idea was to bring together like-minded people, with the same values, to deliver evidence based solutions across the globe. Collaboration: The key to achieving these goals. A new movement was born: #TogetherWeInspire
"An international exchange of ideas, enthusiasm, best practice and shared values, right on our own doorstep! An exciting opportunity to showcase our beautiful county and its people, and remind ourselves what resources we already have, and our potential for achieving even more. It provides an opportunity to improve health both locally and globally, in a myriad of ways and will help us attract health care professionals to the region". Dr Laura Hipple, NHS Cumbria, UK
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The WHIS team has held summits and activities right across the UK (Newcastle, Carlisle, Nottingham, Blackpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Leicester), Thailand and Greece. The programmes and wellness activities (wellness retreats) have been tested in Cumbria. Additionally, to create engagement, WHIS has launched a magazine (WHISInspire), and WHISTalks, with various other initiatives to support people’s health and wellbeing in development. The platform can be defined as a social business, aiming to generate income streams to then reinvest money back into local communities (Porter and Kramer, 2006). Once overheads are covered, the profits are reinvested back into the community. The objectives are to improve people’s health and wellbeing while creating a new ecosystem through a sharing and circular economy. An independent report has demonstrated that every £1 invested in the activities will generate £36 in terms of social return on investment back to the local community. Together, with the support from an ever-evolving extraordinary international team, WHIS has now become a global platform, connecting thousands of innovators and social entrepreneurs across the world who have the same ethical values and the passion to create a better world now, and for future generations.
WHIS Mission We create real opportunities to empower communities, globally. We aim to improve people’s overall health and wellbeing, while supporting local economies. We partner with citizens and communities across the world to do this.
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NEXT STEPS The opportunity exists to create a new model of health, wellbeing, education, knowledge and wisdom that creates value based on prevention of illness. Health and Economics are intrinsically linked as we’ve seen with COVID19. By investing in early intervention we aim to enable people and communities to thrive and improve their health and wellbeing, support existing health services, create new and meaningful jobs while supporting the implementation of the 17 sustainable development goals. The current healthcare systems tend to be based predominantly on a sick-care model, the system is essentially one that waits until we have fallen ill. We face unprecedented challenges with global staff shortages predicted to be 18m by 2030 (BMJ). Healthcare costs (US$ 8.3 trillion or 10% of global GDP ref: WHO) have been rapidly rising over the past few decades. According to the Institute for Global Health Sciences of the University of California-San Francisco (Duff-Brown, 2017), diseases like obesity, cancer, etc. could cost $47 Trillion Dollars by 2030 This unsustainable demand and increase in costs can be largely attributed to the growth in the human population along with a diverse population that results in higher incidence of chronic and multiple conditions. As well as this, a onesize-fits-all approach to health doesn’t work. Both consumer preferences for convenience and affordability are shifting, as well as demand for a more efficient, personalised delivery model is growing. Additionally, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has dramatically unveiled the health inequalities (Gender, Disability etc) that exist in societies across the world, alongside the fragile state of the world’s health. With climate change the next challenge how will we address these challenges while delivering the UN sustainable development goals?
"The movement set up by students represents a true
medical education revolution led with passion and enthusiasm by young leaders across the world" Dr Mike Dixon, Chair of College of Medicine and Medical Advisor to HRH Prince of Wales
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World Health Innovation Summit (WHIS) platform for sustainable development: The increasing development and availability of new technologies in all fields have led to the creation of new strategies and business models, meaning the way an organization creates, captures, and distributes value. Among these business models, platform companies or "platforms" represent a compelling case, as they can allow knowledge and data sharing to increase the organization's value. The concept of value has changed in the last few years, from a purely economic or financial perspective to a value which must include the environment and the society, gathering together different stakeholders. The contribution of "platforms" in a critical sector, that of healthcare, is emerging and is pioneered by the World Health Innovation Summit (WHIS). Results show how "platforms" like WHIS can contribute to the creation and spreading of knowledge, involving experts, professionals, and people, and reinvesting efforts, value, and money back to the community in a circular way. New technologies can enhance the creation of new sustainable business models and solutions able to increase social value, allowing us to move from a digital economy to knowledge. The WHIS model is based on combining human, social, and structural capital (Edvinssonet al, 2005; Edvinsson and Malone, 1997; Grafstrom and Edvinsson, 1996), creating a knowledge transfer platform that exists to support the health economies around the world. The WHIS platform works around five main pillars: WHISKids, WHISatwork, WHISSeniors, WHISGreen, WHISTech. Every WHIS pillar is driven by a specific value proposition that supports knowledge transfer to benefit people’s health and wellbeing in the specific area. The platform aims are connecting people, inspiring and influencing positive change. WHIS provides a platform to develop new ideas, prototype at a local, national, or international level. From pregnancy, creative arts,and design thinking new models and ideas that add community value can be developed through the platform. The primary value of WHIS is trust, with the motto “Trust is the Oil of the Future.” WHIS grows by attracting like minded individuals who understand that what WHIS does is for the common good, combining thought and emotional leadership. WHIS provides the methodology and the value proposition, while the actors take ownership and generate the income streams locally, nationally and internationally. From pregnancy, creative arts,and design thinking new models and ideas that add community value can be developed through the platform. Building a community focused on health issues, the platform makes knowledge and ideas globally scalable.
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All the social prescribing programs (www.gspalliance.com) that are already on the platform (Better Care Together - wellness days, Barrow report NHS etc) can be shared everywhere in the world. WHIS can take them from being a local initiative to having worldwide reach. WHIS and the UN SDGs - In September 2015, 193 heads of state pledged their commitment to implement the 17 Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations. The UNGSII Foundation was created to assist and accelerate the implementation process, with the mission to ensure that the world reaches its goal, at the latest, by 2030. WHIS is a partner with UNGSII for the SDG Cities 25+5 Leadership platform. UNGSII was initiated by UN Director General Michael Moller to provide scientific data and know how for SDG Implementation in 2014. The SCR500 Index was presented at the UN in New York on April 17th 2017. It illustrates that within the largest 500 stock listed corporations from around the world that the global goals has been accepted as a new guiding principle, it also demonstrated that being invested in those stocks and companies supporting SDGs brings competitive returns: the cumulative return after 4 years is 53%.
Professionals reported decreased professional isolation and improved motivation: 67% said “I have improved my professional network.” 63% said “I have better access to new and innovative ideas through WHIS.”
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This is an ambitious programme conceived by the UN Director General Michael Moller and Heildelberg Mayor Prof Eckhart Wurzner and led by Roland Schatz, CEO, UNGSII. The project has now merged with UN Habitat to form SDG Cities Global Initiative www.sdgcities.org. The merger is aiming to support communities from around the world to become lighthouses, where experts in their field will come together and help those 1,000 cities and impact over 1 billion lives to deliver the SDGs by 2030. WHIS has been supporting this work since 2018 and in 2020 during the pandemic was asked to join Pope Francis - COVID19 Vatican Commission and to support partners (UN Habitat, IPU, UN Academic Impact, Vatican Commission, African Union etc) look to the future. In addition to the SDG cities, WHIS and partners (UNGSII, NASP, WHO, FAO, UN Habitat etc) are setting up what are being called Hubs within cities (Brasov, Kinshasa, etc) that will become incubators for new ideas and new programmes that can be prototyped, proven and then scaled to other SDG Cities. They bring in leading experts to work on creating these solutions, to be subsequently tested out. As part of that, WHIS is also working on the creation of the next generation health and wellbeing centers, a mix of clinical, physical, and emotional wellbeing services that deliver SDG3 Good Health & Wellbeing.
"I have learnt that I could control my emotions. WHISkids helped me see that." Boy Age 9
"To be more aware of people around me. Work together. I have enjoyed everything." Girl, 8
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The WHIS platform with partners are developing new programmes in the healthcare, wellbeing and education field, gathering together the most brilliant minds in the area, allowing medical doctors, nurses, educators, psychologists, managers, and other experts to share their ideas and knowledge through the web and on the ground. The galaxy of ideas enables the development of programmes devoted to specific users (school aged children, older people, mothers to be, cancer patients to mention a few) that can be directly prototyped and tested into communities and cities, but also in hospitals, clinics, hospices, schools, and any other organisation. The more the WHIS platform is used, the more data and cases are collected, and the process leads to a continuous improvement of the models and protocols. New and meaningful jobs can be created and healthcare professionals and experts that are dealing with new cases allow the accumulation of new knowledge, to further refine the programmes. New ideas are generated, from innovative ways of working to support recovery from COVID19 while addressing climate change challenges and building public trust. In 2021 as the world was challenged by COVID19 World Health Innovation Summit and partners (Video) presented a paper on how to move forward during COVID19 while implementing the SDGs at the Global Solutions Summit 2021 which took place on May 2728, 2021. The Summit supports the T20 and G20 under the Italian G20 Presidency.
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