An ISPM-based team led by Annika Frahsa supported the WHO Special Initiative on Urban Governance for Health and Well-being through civic engagement and multisectoral coordination in 2021-2023. Two WHO reports from this collaboration are now online.
Rapid, unplanned urbanization is one of the major ecological and human challenges of the 21st century. Good local governance is critical for achieving health and well-being related goals of the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 Agenda, and countries must strive to ensure that their cities are creating and improving their physical and social environments and their community resources to enable people to support each other and to develop to their maximum potential. An ISPM-based team led by Annika Frahsa supported the WHO Special Initiative on Urban Governance for Health and Well-being through civic engagement and multisectoral coordination in 2021-2023. Two WHO reports from this collaboration are now online: a step-by-step approach to operational research in cities and a review of barriers, facilitators and indicators for good urban governance for health and well-being. The complete systematic review has been published with International Journal of Public Health.
