Safe Communities and the World Health Organization Alexander Butchart Coordinator, Prevention of Violence Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability.

Safe Communities and the World Health Organization

Safe Communities and the World Health Organization

Alexander Butchart

Coordinator, Prevention of Violence

Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability

World Health Organization

Two organizationsTwo organizations

Safe Communities is a movement/network accountable to the Karolinska Institutet's WHO Collaborating centre on Community Safety Promotion

WHO is a United Nations technical agency, accountable to its Member States

Safe Communities ≠ WHO

Safe Communities and WHO can help each other

Shared goals, different methodsShared goals, different methods

Safe Communities and WHO share common goals– Reduce the frequency and severity of injuries due to intentional

and unintentional causes by• Reducing risk factors• Strengthening protective factors

– Enhance safety

Safe Communities and WHO use different methods– WHO mainly works top-down– Safe Communities mainly work bottom-up– WHO focuses on prevention– Safe Communities focuses on promotion

Consultative process

World report

Technical support(guidelines, best practices)

Regional/country

programsAdvocacy

Political support(WHA, UN GA, etc)

Funding Model region/country

programs

WHO Strategy WHO Strategy

Health

Trans

port

Interior

Police

Health

Trans

port

Interior

Police

Health

Welfare

Interior

Police

Health

Interior

Police Health

Health

Justice

Interior

Police

Health

Diplo

macy

Defence

Health

Welfare

Police

Road

trafficFallsBurns Drowning War

Inter -

personal

violence

Suicide

Welfare

Opportunities for cooperationOpportunities for cooperation

Safe Communities can serve as delivery mechanisms for evidence-based interventions

Safe Communities can work as test-beds for selected interventions

Safe Communities can provide entry points for top-down interventions

Safe Communities can disseminate information

WHO provides policy levers for national and local advocacy

WHO provides evidence-based guidance

WHO lobbies for increased donor investment

Opportunities for cooperationOpportunities for cooperation

WHO is supportive of Safe Communities, BUT, need to see:– Clear and transparent leadership and

decisions-making structures– Explicit commitment to increase

evidence-based and evidence-generating work

– Clearly identified focal agency for liaison with WHO

Safety 2010 World ConferenceSafety 2010 World Conference

10th WORLD CONFERENCE ON INJURY PREVENTION & SAFETY PROMOTION

21-24 September 2010 Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London, UK

www.safety2010.org.uk

Thank you !