Dear Dr Sergeenko, Minister of Labour, Health and Social Affairs,
The WHO Regional Director is delighted that you have accepted to be a panelist in the first-session discussing the “Roadmap to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, building on Health 2020, the European policy for health and well-being” at the Regional Committee, Budapest, Hungary, 12th September from 10:30 to 12:30.
In this regard, we are pleased to provide the attached draft note, which includes both the first and second sessions, for further guidance.
We take this opportunity to also share with you, the content and details of the panel debate.
The panel discussion will last a total of 30 minutes and will be moderated by Dr Licari.
In accordance with the attached note, there are three questions, we would like to explore, during the panel debate, namely:
· How can we best increase governance for health and well-being in the SDG era?
· Does the SDG roadmap enable your country to further implement the SDGs?
· Are there any follow-up key steps you can suggest?
It is at your discretion to answer all questions, or selected questions, as you deem appropriate for the time allocated. It would be valuable, however, to draw on practical examples of implementation at the national level, mentioning and linking the response to the SDG roadmap implementation.
We would be most grateful if we could receive bullet points, or an outline of the intended response, by Tuesday, 5th of September. We kindly request that this information be sent to Dr. Bettina Menne (menneb@who.int; cc ivanusam@who.int).
Please, be also informed that WHO team will submit some initial thoughts that you may use for drafting the bullet points for your intervention. Those initial thoughts will be delivered to Dr Nino Berdzuli, Deputy Minister, latest on Monday, 4 September, early afternoon.
Yours very truly,
Sent by Marijan Ivanuša, WHO Representative, on behalf of
Dr Piroska Östlin
Director
Division of Policy and Governance for Health and Well-being
World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
UN City - Marmorvej 51 - 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
Tel +4545336804 │Email: ostlinp@who.int