Health as a cross-cutting issue in Dialogues on Water for Food and the Environment
Report of an International Workshop, jointly organized by WHO and InWEnt (Capacity Building International), Amman, Jordan, 15-18 December 2003
The objectives of this workshop were:
- to review critical health issues in the context of dialogues on water for food and the environment
- to review the impact of irrigation development on health in communities and to discuss the applicability of health guidelines/ recommendations in the context of irrigation schemes in the Eastern Mediterranean and South/South-East Asian regions
- to design mechanisms, institutional arrangements and incentives for the effective incorporation of health into dialogue processes, together with indicators of success
- to review current and planned Dialogue activities and make recommendations on the incorporation of human health as a cross-cutting issue
- to define the expected outcome on human health of the Dialogue product to be prepared by 2006