possible actions to be taken by Civil Society Organization to build interconnections and interdependencies towards planetary health.

1. Civil Society Organization
and Planetary Health
by:
- Weiam Al-
hunaishi
- Harish Raj
- Azura NG
-- Suhana Shahrum
-- Adhitya Pardana

2. Definitions
Aggregate of non-
governmental organizations
and institutions that convey
interests and will of citizens.
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3. Important actions
 Civic engagement
 Facilitate citizen action for democratic
governance and development.
 Social services and implementation of other
development programs.
 Global development assistance.
 Work as a complement to government action,
especially in regions where government
presence is weak such as in post-conflict
situations.

4. Current issues
 CDs
 NCDs / Road accidents.

5.  Climate change/ loss biodiversity
 Address the gaps in order to reach the
Sustainable Development Goals SDGs and
environmental health.

6. Possible actions:
 Incorporate intersectional connection among
different public, privet , and other different
agencies. To align the goals achieving process
according to the planetary needs.
 Solving the issue of integrity with increase the
transparency, participatory planning, budgeting
and lower potential corruption.
 Provide fund for capacity building in the
governmental and national organizations to work
in the down-level with society in order to achieve
butter environmental means of life.

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Grinds , consultation, facilitation and services to stimulate more local
action and policies to support healthy living.

8.  Brings about awareness/ education on
global environmental changes. This can be
made by targeting youth and community
involvement. ex. Sharing what is happening
in the small islands as a consequence of
climate change and other places in the world (
desertification and loss of biodiversity). By the
smart use of media.

9.  Promote technological, economic, social,
political & behavioral changes enabling
transformations, while building knowledge
about impacts of climate change. Ex. Increase
volunteer capacity.
 Finding response and solution areas in
collaboration with other stakeholders to
improve areas of environmental change,
pollution, pathogens, disease vectors,
ecosystem services, nutrition and well being.

10.  Engage expertise and stakeholders from
natural and social sciences, humanities, health
low + stakeholders including policy makers to
develop trans-disciplinary solutions to
sustainability challenge.
 This can be made by
forums/meeting/conferences to indicate the
problems and develop a cooperative goals. Ex.
Working together to encourage cycling.

11.  Increase base knowledge by integration of
research and involvement of social
partnership.
 Advocate for the policies that need to be
implemented. Ex. sharing automobiles, shifting
form automobiles into active mobiles.

12.  Empower people in every day activates to
change their communities.
 Ex. Water quality and health impacts in
pakistan
 Green house gases effect could be reduce
form automobiles.
 http://publications.iwmi.org/pdf/H024796.pdf

13. Current challenges
 Limited/ regional impact.
 Lack of documentations, information, and
evaluation.
 Lack of continuity/ follow up.
 Lack technical skills.

14. Thank you