Activities

1.  Sustaining and strengthening  regional cooperation in public health

•Continuing cooperation and coordination in public health beyond 2011

• Further capacity building of existing institutional, human and knowledge resources in the SEE

• Further consolidating the SEEHN alliance in public health followed with promotion and provision of new membership and partnership and by fully implementation of the obligations prescribed in the signed documents of the SEEHN

2. Achieving equity and accountability in health through HiAP

•Broader policy frameworks and legislation for HiAP
•Studies and research on HiAP experiences to have evidence for debate and advocacy
•Design of indicators and methodologies for HiAP development of monitoring and assessment
•HiAP training for public health teams and decision makers
•Exchange opportunities among countries on current experiences
•Advocacy and information to decision makers, to provide them  with sufficient evidence about the benefits of the intersectoral actions for the health of the population
•Strong partnership and alliances among sectors – to develop specific and convincing arguments for other sectors

3. Strengthening public health capacities and services for control and prevention of the NDCs

•Capacity building of health and public health professionals
•Changing perceptions of public health in other sectors (agriculture, food industry, environment, and others), politicians and civil society, and their involvement
•Set up the information system for monitoring trends in NCDs and the impact of different measures, including  equity in delivering of public health services
•Increase the monitoring, analytic and evaluation  capacities of health situation, public health policies and activities
•Incorporation of behaviour change sciences into public health
•Developing sustainable funding sources
•Better cooperation, collaboration and communication within SEEHN