The 7th European Environment & Health Task Force
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Ms. Lorea Coronado-Garcia, UNDP Sustainable Procurement Specialist, delivered a presentation at the 7th European Environment & Health Task Force on how UNDP, in collaboration with technical experts and suppliers and manufacturers of health commodities, works to minimize the environmental impact of its health procurement. Flagship initiatives, tools, and venues of engagement are highlighted.
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The 7th European Environment & Health Task Force
- 1. SustainableHealthcare Procurement &SupplyChain Lorea Coronado-Garcia, UNDP Sustainability Specialist lorea.coronado-garcia@undp.org 10-11 April 2017: 7th meeting of the European Environment and Health Task Force
- 2. 2012–Establishmentofthe UnitedNationsTaskTeamon SustainableProcurementin theHealthSector(SPHS) SPHS Task Team is, through a transparent and inclusive engagement process, leveraging its normative and market power, lowering the environmental impact of its procurement, with a final aim of improving human health and well- being.
- 9. UNDPEnvironmental AssessmentsofSuppliersand ManufacturersofHealth CommoditiesandServices: Questionnaireand OnlineEnvironmental AssessmentTool(OET) A user-friendly and dynamic tool which provides comprehensive overview of the environmental performance of suppliers and manufacturers of health commodities and services Interested in testing this tool, which was developed in consultation with leading technical experts? Please contact us at info@savinglivesustainably.org i Questionnaire and OET
- 10. Sustainable Procurement Guidelines Will provide comprehensive information on sustainable procurement recommendations in the health sector UNEP,SustainableUN,UNDP SustainableProcurement Guidelines–HealthSector: BackgroundReport This guideline will be part of a series: Additional guides available at www.greeningtheblue.org & www.ungm.org i
- 11. Engagement with thekey stakeholdersfromthehealth sector: FocusonProcurement Practitioners Sustainable Public Health ProcurementTrainings UNDP-UNEP-HCWH support government officials to design and implement sustainable public health procurement policies that equally factor in the social, economic and environmental impact of their operations. Next training in New Delhi, India, 10-11 April, 2017 Interested to host a training in your organization? Please contact us at info@savinglivesustainably.org i
- 12. Engagement with thekey stakeholdersfromthehealth sector: FocusonSuppliersand ManufacturersofHealth Commodities Engagement Strategy on Engaging with Suppliers and Manufacturers on Green Health Procurement
- 13. Engagement with thekey stakeholdersfromthehealth sector: FocusonSuppliersand ManufacturersofHealth Commodities Interagency Statement on Engaging with Suppliers and Manufacturers on Sustainable Health Procurement
- 14. Engagement with thekey stakeholdersfromthehealth sector: FocusonSuppliersand ManufacturersofHealth Commodities Engaging with suppliers and manufacturers Targeted Communication and Ensured Fair-Play E.g. SMEs, disadvantaged and vulnerable groups
- 18. Engagement with thekey stakeholdersfromthehealth sector: FocusonSuppliersand ManufacturersofHealth Commodities Asia Forum 2017 Manila, Philippines November 2017 Sustainable Manufacturing in the Health Sector: Fostering Social, Economic and Environmental Benefits
- 21. The future starts today. GET INTOUCH @ www.savinglivesustainably.org We look forward to working with you on a more sustainable global health sector.
Editor's Notes
- Thank you for the introduction and an opportunity to present the United Nations Initiative on Sustainable Procurement in the Health Sector (SPHS for short) and the work UNDP has done as host agency of the SPHS. I would like to present to you the UN perspective on how we, in collaboration with the Member States, the private sector and technical experts, work on greening the global health sector, with the final aim of improving human health and well-being. My name is Lorea Coronado-Garcia and I am a sustainability specialist at UNDP. My background is in materials engineering and nature management. I am happy to present on behalf of UNDP My collegue, Mirjana Milic, is also on the line… Mirjana has been with the initiative since the start and is one of the masterminds behind the success of our initiative. I am sorry I can’t be there in person to deliver this segment of the workshop. I lived in New Delhi 2009-2010, so I would have loved to come back for a visit, but I’m very happy to be there virtually. I don’t want to lose you in the next 40 minutes. To give you a heads up, I will be talking about SPHS activities, UNDP practices, and UNDPs work in contribution to SPHS. And in that order. And will close with ways for you to get involved with this work.
- To give a bit of background on the SPHS initiative I would like to begin with a brief introduction of our initiative, answering the question who we are. The initiative spun off from the momentum created by the UN’s Greening the Blue, a UN-wide campaign embedding sustainability throughout its operations to move towards climate neutrality. There was a rising interest in the UN procurement operations of health commodities and services. Staff of various UN agencies came together, realizing the agencies aims of improving human health and planetary health, could be further supported by lowering the environmental impact of UN procurement. The SPHS was officially established in May 2012 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The initiative has since grown to include 7 UN agencies and 3 multi-lateral health financing institutions and since 2015, the SPHS is hosted by the UNDP Istanbul Regional Hub SPHS facilitates and coordinates the introduction of sustainable procurement in the health sector among its members through technical expertise and in addition, it leverages the normative mandate and joint procurement volumes of the SPHS member agencies to influence the global health sector and beyond towards greener health systems and green economies.
- The SPHS member organizations are: UNDP, UNEP, UNOPS, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNHCR, GAVI, WHO, and The Global Fund The SPHS members work collaboratively to support implementation of Agenda 2030. Each agency offers its unique expertise and commitment to work collaboratively to achieve shared results. These ten organizations represent 97% of UN’s health procurement That is an approximate 5 billion dollars in annual spending on health commodities, which is used as a strategic leverage to introduce sustainable procurement practices in the global health aid market.
- As our expertise and network grew, we’ve added a fourth pillar. Our work is not, and could not be, built only on in-house expertise. We work diligently on growing our global network of partners. To this date we have established a global network which covers 177 countries. There are more than 400 examples of good practices on achieving low-carbon health sector on our platform, which is supported by almost 4,000 network members. I will talk more about the platform later. However our platform, and our participation at events are focused on connect and increase collaboration among SPHS members, global leaders and experts to promote sharing of technical knowledge and good practices
- Our areas of focus have been: Ensure the safe management of hazardous chemicals and promote safer alternatives Support energy efficiency and generation of renewable and alterntive energy Incorporate sustainable principles into the production/management of medical products Promote sustainable procurement practices in purchasing health products and services Foster saving and recycling habits to improve effiency of resources Promote low-carbon transportation systems and technologies, to ultimately reduce carbon emissions Enhance environmentally sound practices in the treatment of healthcare waste Minimize water consumption and support greener wastewater treatment And, of course, to ensure safe and environmentally-friendly packaging and eco-innovative solutions, which includes our support of biodegradable packaging To start, SPHS focused mainly on environmental sustainability, however we broadened our focus through eleven focus areas covering social areas as well, Gender Equality and Human and Labour Rights I will talk more at length about these examples a bit later, but to give examples to these focus areas: Chemicals: Healthcare Procurement and the Compliance with International Environmental Conventions on Chemicals Waste management: Toolkit for healthcare waste management Procurement: UNDP Environmental Questionnaire of Suppliers and Manufacturers of Health Commodities and Services – as a guideline that our suppliers can use in their procurement teams
- So those were examples of tools we’ve produced. We are actively involved in sharing success stories from our supply chain, developing projects with partners, conducting trainings, participating in events, and writing publications. This graphic helps illustrate the linkage between some of our work, our various focus areas and the SDGS. The SPHS initiative represents a great example of financing and implementing the SDG. By gathering the public and private sector connected to sustainable health procurement. The SPHS initiative is linked to many of the SDGs, however I’d like to highlight four of them in particular today, which are Goal 3: Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote Well-Being for all at all ages, Goal 8: Promote Sustained, Inclusive and Sustainable Economic Growth, Full and Productive Employment and Decent Work, Goal 12: Ensure Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns, Goal 17: Strengthen the Means of Implementation and Revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development. The SPHS is also aligned with the principles established by the UN Supplier Code of Conduct.
- This is a sort of timeline of our phase 1, where we went from planning and building a network base to engage with and communicate with, to participate in events around the world, developing trainings and tools. Out of all of the deliverables from this project, a few key ones are: Low carbon & resource depletion: List and products identification and development Substitution list of toxic chemicals: 197 chemical and mixtures shortlisted using global conventions and authoritative lists as selection criteria Green health procurement criteria: Guide for procurement practitioners I must note this work was done in partnership with Health Care Without Harm.
- Healthcare Procurement and the Compliance with International Environmental Conventions on Chemicals is a tool that allows procurement practitioners to measure and monitor the status and progress of healthcare procurement related to the compliance with International Environmental Conventions Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Minamata Convention on Mercury The structure of the tool is a Checklist (on what to measure to check for compliance), indicators (for degree of compliance) and guidance (on what to look for in products) It generates a Report Dashboard with a combination of graphics and tables to make the results more understandable. Shown on the slide. The Tool for Monitoring the Compliance with International Conventions on Chemicals which has been developed already and will be piloted across several UN agencies and UNDP COs. This will allow procurement units not just to monitor the compliance with environmental conventions but to also identified key products where further action is required to have a greener procurement.
- Our Environmental Questionnaire for Suppliers and Manufacturers has been prepared based on: international standards, UN Global Compact principles, Global Reporting indicators and existing and well accepted environmental scorecards and questionnaires from other national and international organizations. International consultation was conducted to review and finalize this tool with feedback from more than 15 technical experts. At the end, environmental profiles of suppliers and green procurement criteria will be developed for further development of the GPIH. Is also endorsed by UNDP HQ. As the second phase, an environmental online assessment tool is currently being developed As a result, every supplier will be scored, based on their success in Energy, Chemicals and Hazardous Substances, Waste, Packaging, Environmental Sustainability Best Practices, GHG Emissions and Water and Wastewater. Also, there will be an overview, where the results will be shown on production level and product level with final comments, and support procurement practitioners in understanding more about the sustainability performance of their suppliers and manufacturers. This tool is supposed to ease the process of introducing sustainable procurement criteria at the UN tender processes. Through the collection of relevant data on suppliers’ environmental practices, it will be possible to not only define a baseline, but also define a set of realistic environmental criteria to be included in upcoming tenders This database will become a powerful tool to identify best practices as well as areas where support and capacity building for suppliers is necessary. It also helps signal to manufacturers and suppliers that environmental performance and profiles are increasingly important. *Invite to test, let us know if they would be interested*
- The sustainable procurement guidelines are meant to provide comprehensive recommendations on sustainable procurement in the health sector They should: familiarize the reader with the health sector sustainability issues at hand provides a methodology to develop and implement green procurement criteria This covers aspects such as key environmental impacts (chemicals, water, packaging, carbon footprint, waste mangement) key social impacts (international labor standards) progressive approach for implementation of criteria/tools (short term: quick wins, long-term strategy: supplier engagement)
- In collaboration with UNEP, we have developed the Sustainable public health procurement training. Sustainable public health procurement trainings for UNDP Country Offices are arranged for capacity development and support to procurement units and policy makers operating in the health sector develop sustainable procurement policies and strategies, integrate sustainable practices into healthcare procurement processes monitor the implementation of sustainable public healthcare procurement at a national level Actually, we will have a training in two and a half weeks in New Delhi at our country office.
- In November, SPHS published its Engagement Strategy to work in collaboration with suppliers and manufacturers to introduce procurement in the global health sector. The publication helped identify and prioritize different products and product categories, develop a plan for engaging our supply chain and laid out milestones for the strategy Adopting environmentally sustainable practices offers suppliers and manufactures a number of clear benefits, including: Suppliers and manufacturers may gain competitive advantage towards competitors Staying in business and getting ahead of the regulatory curve Improvement to the suppliers/manufacturers brand (CSR) Increased employee commitment and engagement Healthier communities Savings potential (materials, energy and other) Additional resource mobilization for suppliers and manufacturers (through ‘social’ grants) by implementing greener approaches Better access to market intelligence Embodying the champion model for change
- SPHS members commit to collectively advance environmentally and socially responsible health procurement Still, we see our financial and purchasing influence as only one of three key pillars to our work. In December, going one step further, many of our members formally signed an interagency statement to endorse and promote green and socially-responsible procurement of health commodities.
- Engaging with suppliers and manufacturers can stimulate the participation of more sustainable bidders *ensuring fairplay is important
- As mentioned earlier, we have developed a novel online engagement platform named savinglivesustainably.org. This development was generously supported by our donors listed on the slide The platform serves as a knowledge-hub of on sustainable production and procurement, and it offers you hundreds of examples of cross-cutting innovations, how other public institutions, hospitals, private companies contributed to the SDGs and how this resulted in more sustainable supply chains. Besides the SDGs and focus areas, you can also explore the content based on your geographical location of interes Its meant to be used as ameeting point for decision-makers, policy-makers, procurement practitioners, academia, suppliers and manufacturers, hospitals and other interested institutions and individuals to share best practices and lessons learnt. We aim for this to help bridge the gap between the procurement practitioners and health suppliers and manufacturers and become ‘two-way street’ showcasing not only the SPHS examples, but we encourage all stakeholders interested in sustainable health procurement to share their own success stories,
- You can also learn what leaders in your industry and other regulatory agencies are doing. We invite you to showcase the initiatives and discussions that come from todays workshops on our platform, and contribute to our packaging success stories We are more global than ever
- Our network is highly diversified bringing together global leaders, policy makers, technical experts, the private sector, NGOs, academia and keeps expanding, Our various media channels reached nearly 14 million impressions in 2016. Our platform being our #1 media platform for network engagement. We invite all workshop participants to become a part of our network and collaborate with us on sustainable supply chains in the global health sector.
- We are currently planning a three-day conference with a focus on water & energy (day 1), packaging and waste management (day 2) and gender equality & human and labor rights (day 3) To facilitate a dialogue between the technical experts, suppliers and manufacturers from across the global healthcare industry The Summit is also an opportunity for participants to discuss existing and forthcoming initiatives, network with the key stakeholders from the global health sector and explore areas of potential collaboration between the various represented organizations. Let us know if you are interested in attending or providing input on the agenda.
- As we look forward into phase two of our initiative, we continue to set our sights on the broad horizon: We want to develop universally adaptable criteria and standards Foster sustainable procurement in the health sector Foster sustainable manufacturing of health products And finally measure the success and impact of these efforts, to continue to learn from them.
- I would like to encourage you to see this movement towards sustainable procurement as an opportunity. Just yesterday I attended a webinar by Ecovadis which opened showing the increase of large corporations starting to look at their own supply chain sustainability. These were leading corporations, the Nike, Walmarts, Unilevers of the world. There is a change in attitudes regarding the criticality and importance of sustainable procurement driving factors. Being ahead of the rest in implementing sustainable practices will distinguish companies, organizations and agencies and has the power to change the conversation around the sector. Please use the SPHS online platform as a resource.
- For more information on our work and current projects; you can also follow us on twitter, and receive regular updates on the SPHS initiative by subscribing to our Newsflash. In case you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. Thank you.