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Appel à candidatures pour siéger au Conseil régional de la jeunesse de l'OMS pour la Méditerranée orientale
Nous vous remercions de votre intérêt à rejoindre le Conseil des jeunes du Bureau régional de la Méditerranée orientale. L’appel à candidatures est maintenant clos. Les demandes ont été soumises et seront examinées dans les prochaines semaines.
23 août 2023 - Les jeunes sont les dirigeants de demain et les agents du changement actuels. L’OMS estime que la voix des jeunes doit être au cœur des décisions qui ont un impact sur la santé des populations du monde entier. Le Bureau régional de l’OMS pour la Méditerranée orientale envisage donc de collaborer avec des organisations de jeunes et de créer un conseil régional de la jeunesse pour accroître la contribution des jeunes aux efforts de promotion de la santé publique dans la Région et créer une stratégie de l’OMS pour la mobilisation des jeunes qui soit complète et inclusive.
Le Conseil régional de la jeunesse servira de réseau dynamique pour les parties prenantes afin d'amplifier la voix et de faire connaître l'expérience des jeunes, ainsi que d'exploiter et de renforcer leur expertise, leur énergie et leurs idées en vue de promouvoir la santé publique. Les idées, les enseignements tirés et l'expertise de votre organisation soutiendront l'OMS dans ses efforts visant à renforcer la contribution des jeunes aux systèmes de santé publique, ce qui permettra à nos États Membres d'impliquer les jeunes de manière significative en tant que moteurs clés dans les processus d'élaboration des politiques.
Le Conseil des jeunes de l’OMS :
sera ouvert à tous et diversifié dans sa composition et sa structure, en veillant à l'équilibre
entre les genres et à une représentation adéquate des différents groupes de parties
prenantes, régions géographiques et niveaux de revenus ;
sera transparent dans tous les processus, y compris dans la stratégie et les activités
opérationnelles ;
veillera à ce que toutes les activités s'alignent sur les normes et les standards de l'OMS ; et
facilitera la coordination entre les parties intéressées pour faire progresser les priorités de
l’OMS en ce qui concerne la contribution des jeunes au programme de santé publique.
L’OMS cherche à collaborer avec :
des organisations intergouvernementales ;
des organisations non gouvernementales (y compris des associations des patients) ;
des établissements universitaires et de recherche centrés sur la jeunesse ;
des fondations philanthropiques ;
des groupes parlementaires de jeunes.
Votre organisation sera en mesure de contribuer de manière significative à l'avancement de la santé publique et aux objectifs, à la vision et au but du Conseil régional de la jeunesse de l'OMS, et de démontrer son soutien aux activités et aux efforts de l'OMS en faveur de la jeunesse. Elle doit également être active au niveau régional et avoir œuvré dans le domaine de la jeunesse et de la santé publique en faisant preuve d'une expérience et d'une expertise avérées en la matière depuis au moins trois ans.
Participer à l'action
Veuillez soumettre votre candidature au plus tard le Mardi 19 Septembre 2023.
Pour toute question, veuillez contacter le secrétariat du Conseil de l’OMS pour la jeunesse à l’adresse suivante :
Vos contributions
En tant que membre du Conseil de la jeunesse, votre organisation devra consacrer entre une et trois heures par semaine en participant à de petits groupes de discussion/de travail virtuels et/ou à des ateliers plus importants qui seront organisés dans un environnement très favorable.
Chaque activité et chaque collaboration seront uniques, ne nécessiteront ni mobilisation ni participation antérieures et s’appuieront sur les discussions et les principaux thèmes abordés.
La chronologie des réunions facilitera la participation dans les différents fuseaux horaires de la Région.
Si vous avez des besoins en matière d’accessibilité, nous nous efforcerons de trouver le moyen le plus facile pour vous de participer.
En tant que membre du Conseil de la jeunesse de l’OMS, le nom de votre organisation sera ajouté au site Web du Conseil régional de la jeunesse.
Les pays dans lesquels l'OMS mène ses activités dans la Région de la Méditerranée orientale peuvent être consultés à l'adresse suivante : /fr/countries.html
Amidst Kabul airport blockage, WHO and UNICEF call for assistance to deliver critical health supplies to Afghanistan
Joint statement by WHO Regional Director for Eastern and Mediterranean Region, Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, and UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia, George Laryea-Adjei
A WHO-supported mobile health clinic caters to urgent health needs of newly displaced people arriving in Kabul @WHO Afghanistan
KABUL/CAIRO/KATHMANDU,22 August 2021: “As humanitarian needs in Afghanistan increase, the abilities to respond to those needs are rapidly declining. WHO and UNICEF call for immediate and unimpeded access to deliver medicines and other lifesaving supplies to millions of people in need of aid, including 300 000 people displaced in the last two months alone.
“While the main focus over the past days has been major air operations for the evacuation of internationals and vulnerable Afghans, the massive humanitarian needs facing the majority of the population should not - and cannot – be neglected. Even prior to the events of the past weeks, Afghanistan represented the world’s third largest humanitarian operation, with over 18 million people requiring assistance.
“WHO and UNICEF are committed to stay and deliver for the people of Afghanistan.
“However, with no commercial aircraft currently permitted to land in Kabul, we have no way to get supplies into the country and to those in need. Other humanitarian agencies are similarly constrained.
“WHO and UNICEF call for the immediate establishment of a humanitarian airbridge for the sustained and unimpeded delivery of aid into Afghanistan. We are also closely following up with all UN and international partners to explore options for expediting aid shipments.
“In the first few days of the recent hostilities, both WHO and UNICEF — like all other UN agencies — prioritized the safety and security of our staff. But our work continued even when the hostilities were at their worst. We remain committed to staying in Afghanistan and delivering, and we rapidly shifted gears to address the needs of millions of Afghans who remain in the country.
“Conflict, displacement, drought and the COVID-19 pandemic are all contributing to a complex and desperate situation in Afghanistan. Humanitarian agencies need to be supported and facilitated to meet the enormous and growing needs in Afghanistan, and make sure that no one dies unnecessarily due to lack of access to aid.
Notes to editors
About WHO’s humanitarian work in Afghanistan
In the past week, WHO distributed lifesaving supplies to partners and hospitals from its stocks in-country. But supplies are rapidly dwindling, and WHO currently only has enough to meet urgent needs for up to one and a half weeks. Most planes flying into the country to evacuate personnel have been arriving empty, missing crucial opportunities to bring in urgently needed health supplies and other humanitarian aid. More than 500 metric tones of WHO supplies, scheduled to be transported over three flights to Afghanistan this week and next week, remain in WHO’s logistics hub in Dubai’s International Humanitarian City. These include trauma medicines, essential medicines and medical supplies, pneumonia medicines, supplies for the management of severe acute malnutrition, and supplies for the management of chronic diseases. WHO operates through 8 offices in Afghanistan and works with local implementing partners to provide urgently needed health care for all. As the Health Cluster lead WHO also ensures that partners continue delivering a coordinated response in all corners of the country.
About UNICEF’s humanitarian work in Afghanistan
UNICEF has 13 offices in Afghanistan and a range of partners that support us in delivering lifesaving supplies to the most disadvantaged.
To support the about 10 million children, and their families, affected by the humanitarian crisis, UNICEF is currently delivering life-saving services such as ready to use therapeutic food to nourish starving children and mobile health clinics to give urgent medical care. UNICEF is also delivering water to those most affected by the drought, including in camps for internally displaced people. Despite the ongoing humanitarian crisis, UNICEF is distributing hygiene kits and continuing vaccination for babies and young children. UNICEF is also expanding its humanitarian response in the country by prepositioning supplies. In the past week, in several of the new camps for internally displaced people in Kabul, UNICEF established child-friendly spaces, nutrition hubs, and vaccination sites.
Media contacts
Samantha Mort
Chief of Communication
UNICEF Afghanistan
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Sabrina Sidhu
UNICEF New York
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Inas Hamam
WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
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Bisma Akbar
Communication Officer
WHO Afghanistan
Tel: +923335651531
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Pravaran Mahat
Regional Communication Specialist
UNICEF ROSA
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A unified and whole-of-system approach necessary to make sure every child in Pakistan is vaccinated – WHO and UNICEF
Friday 12 June, Islamabad – WHO and UNICEF have applauded the Government of Pakistan’s continued efforts to eradicate polio. The United Nations agencies commended the concerted efforts made to make sure that vaccination programmes continued even during COVID-19 surges in the country.
Both agencies urged greater solidarity and investment to sustain the momentum and reach every child with life-saving vaccines. These reflections were made by UNICEF South Asia Regional Director George Laryea-Adjei and WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Director Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari as they concluded a week-long joint visit to Pakistan.
The visit coincides with the first Polio Oversight Board's visit to the country, and the launch of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI)'s new 2022–2026 strategy.
“We know that the most important relationship in polio eradication is between the vaccinator and the child’s family. Without communication and trust, there is no vaccination. This week, I have seen a renewed focus on bolstering that relationship in the most high-risk areas of Pakistan. I appreciate the huge role played by frontline works in building that trust, and the support provided by the Government and partners to these workers. I leave Pakistan filled with hope that 'all hands are on deck' to finish the last mile in the journey to eradicate polio in the country,” said UNICEF South Asia Regional Director George Laryea-Adjei.
Commenting on this mission, WHO Regional Director Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari said, “I have witnessed a back-to-basics approach to raise campaign quality and most importantly the need for laser focus on repeatedly missed children by provincial health ministers and chief secretaries – this is the only way we will slash the number of missed children down to zero. The GPEI leadership, including WHO and UNICEF, all have a role to play in turning the tide in Pakistan, but the real leader must be the Government of Pakistan on its emergency footing and best practices from its COVID-19 response, and this mission has showcased the diligence and accountability that Prime Minister Imran Khan and his government are applying to eradication.”
The visit highlighted the impact of COVID-19 and the changes made in Pakistan’s national polio programme. The regional directors also noted the opportunity for Pakistan to capitalize on the very few polio cases in the country and for GPEI partners to optimize support to intensified efforts by national and provincial governments to end polio.
The two regional directors met with top-level leadership, including the Chief of Army Staff Qamar Javed Bajwa, and attended the National Task Force meeting chaired by the Prime Minister Imran Khan and participated in by provincial chief ministers.
They visited Peshawar and Karachi and participated in field activities, including the ongoing polio vaccination campaign in areas that have persistently challenged the polio programme. In order to stamp out polio for good, every child living in these high-risk areas must be reached with the oral polio vaccine multiple times.
The regional directors visited routine immunization centres, where there is a growing synergy between polio campaigns and routine immunization and attended health facilities designed to help high-risk populations access health care and boost vulnerable children’s immunity.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only countries where wild poliovirus is endemic, and together constitute one epidemiological block. After losing traction during the COVID-19 pandemic, during which the polio programmes in each country were retooled as pandemic support, there are now promising results. The cases of wild poliovirus are down once again to just one to date in 2021 in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
During their mission, Dr Al-Mandhari and Mr Laryea-Adjei commended the successes yet warned against complacency and urged that the hard work be continued until every last child is reached with vaccination.
