Children's Environmental Health - Budapest 2004

Children's environmental health was the focus of the 4. Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health in Budapest from 22. - 25. of June. WECF and Ecoforum took an acitve part in the outcome.

Country:	Hungary
Donors / Program:	European Commission, DG Environment, Netherlands Ministry of Environment
WECF Partners:	Large Families Association, Clean Air Action Hungary
Issues:	Chemicals, Health and Environment
Duration:	05/2004 - 11/2004

100 women of the WECF network from 25 pan-European countries came to Budapest to take part in the Ministerial Conference on Children’s Health & Environment, in the NGO Healthy Planet Forum, in the WECF network conference “Our Common Future”, and in the Hungarian Women’s Day on Chemicals and Health.

Case Studies of Actions to improve Children's Health and Environment, implementing CEHAPE

WHO publishes case-study book with examples of how children's environmental health has been improved across the pan-European region, by governments, NGOs, local authorities, hospitals and trade-unions. The book contains a.o. the M&S and WECF case study on improving drinking water and sanitation in the school of the village Garla Mare in Romania, page 27.

The case-studies can be used as examples what priorities to set for implementing the CEHAPE - Children's Environmental Health Action Plan for Europe, which the governments agreed on at the ministerial conference on health and environment in Budapest, June 2004.

Images from Budpest 2004

This can now be found in good quality and larger size in the Budapest Gallery.

Publications on the conference