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Background paper (English, as
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WORKSHOP ON
INSTITUTIONAL CONDITIONS FOR INTEGRATED
TRANSPORT, ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH POLICIES
Berlin, Germany
23–24 January 2006
Organizers and partners:
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and
World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO) secretariat to the Transport, Health and Environment Pan-European Programme (THE PEP)
Federal Environmental Agency, Germany
European Academy of the Urban Environment (EA.UE)
Technical University of Delft
Background:
The Berlin workshop is organized as part of a project on "Supportive institutional mechanisms for integrated policy and decision-making on transport, environment and health", which is carried out within the Transport, Health and Environment Pan-European Programme (THE PEP), a programme jointly administered by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe) (http://www.thepep.org/).
THE PEP provides a framework for cooperation to representatives from the three sectors in 55 countries with the aim to promote sustainable transport goals across the pan-European region. Special emphasis is given to the countries in East-Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) and in South-East Europe (SEE).
The integration of environment and health concerns into transport policy is crucial for sustainable development and constitutes one of the priorities for THE PEP. It is, however, a challenging task to put into practise because of factors such as conflicting interests and priorities between policy-makers in different sectors. Following the need expressed by a number of countries to receive specific guidance on institutional mechanisms for policy integration both within and between the central and local administrations, THE PEP Steering Committee discussed and approved the objectives and the implementation steps of the present project.
Objectives/Outputs:
The workshop aimed to contribute to understanding about policy-making processes that integrate transport, environment and health issues more effectively, with a focus on institutional arrangements. It served to deepen and complete the information on current institutional practise in the region building on the relevant studies and publications available as well as on the replies to an on-line questionnaire survey.
Programme and presentations
Presentations can be downloaded as pdf-files by clicking on the title of the presentation or the name (some have a size of several MB)
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Monday, 23 January 2006 |
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09:00 |
Registration |
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09:30 |
Welcome and introduction |
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1: Institutional arrangements promoting policy integration chair: Nigel Dotchin, Department for Transport, UK, Chairman of THE PEP Steering Committee |
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10:00 |
Administrative culture
and practice in the pan-European region: how far does this support
environmental policy integration? |
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10:20 |
Policy integration tools
and institutional arrangements across three sectors and levels of
government: current situation in UNECE and WHO/Europe member
states |
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10:40 |
Questions |
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10:50 |
Coffee |
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11:15 |
4 examples from practice |
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12:00 |
Questions |
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12:15 |
Lunch |
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13:15 |
Small group discussions: introduction to method and topics |
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13:25 |
Small group discussions, addressing in particular questions such as:
The discussions will focus on national strategies, goals and action plans, on administrative culture and practice, on financial allocation, training and capacity building, on monitoring and assessment. |
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15:15 |
Report back from small group discussions |
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2: Barriers and bottlenecks to policy integration chair: Rainer Fehr, (North Rhine-Westphalia) Institute of Public Health, Germany |
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16:00 |
Barriers and
bottlenecks to implementing policy integration (1.4 MB) |
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16:20 |
Questions |
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16:30 |
Small group discussions, addressing in particular questions such as:
The discussion will focus on administrative and political culture and structures, on financing/budget conditions, on monitoring and reporting |
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18:00 |
Session ends |
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19:30 |
Informal reception |
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Tuesday, 24 January 2006 |
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3: Learning from each other: Supportive institutional arrangements
for policy integration chair: Axel Friedrich, Federal Environmental Agency, Germany |
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09:00 |
Report back from small group discussions |
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09:40 |
To what extent can
policies and institutional arrangements be transferred? |
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10:00 |
Transferring policies -
lessons from European research (1.3 MB) |
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10:20 |
Questions |
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10:30 |
4 examples from practice |
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11:30 |
Questions |
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11:45 |
Small group discussions, addressing in particular:
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13:15 |
Lunch |
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14:30 |
Report back from small group discussions |
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4: The way forward - dissemination, information and training chair: Carlos Dora, WHO |
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15:15 |
What do decision-makers
need? (1.6 MB) |
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15:35 |
What next?: Plenary discussion on the needs of decision makers, conclusions and recommendations |
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16:30 |
Workshop closes |
| Results of the Conference | Results in Russian (as MS-Word-file) |