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Resolution
46481
Period covered
Activities to implement this Resolution from Activity Reports
| Relevant operative para(s) of Res/Rec | Activities Overview | Description | Status | Action |
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| Capacity building | • Parks Victoria, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning have commenced the development of new shared priorities and a targeted work program to implement the Victorian Memorandum for Health and Nature (April 2017). • Parks Victoria is working with local governments across Victoria to ensure that their Municipal Health and Wellbeing Plans recognise the physical and mental health benefits from connecting with nature and that the Municipal Plans enable a range of new and innovative partnerships that deliver programs, experiences and research to improve the health of communities and nature. • Parks Victoria is working with the State’s health promotion foundation, VicHealth and the YMCA to deliver a ‘Camp Out’ in Victoria’s Government House grounds for disadvantaged children in November and to leverage this event as a promotion campaign on the benefits of time outdoors in nature for the upcoming summer school holidays. • Parks Victoria in partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services and Nutrition Australia has developed Healthy Eating in Parks guidelines to promote healthy eating as part of healthy active lifestyles for community health. |
On-going | Full activity report | |
| Education/Communication/Raising awareness | • Parks Victoria facilitated a World Leadership Dialogue entitled ‘Nature is Good Medicine’ at the 15th World Congress on Public Health 2017, bringing together the IUCN and the World Health Organisation to demonstrate the strong links between biodiversity and health and their commitment to working together https://www.cbd.int/health/wcph2017-nature-is-goodmedicine.pdf. | Completed | Full activity report | |
| Education/Communication/Raising awareness | • Parks Victoria has released a new Guide to Healthy Parks Healthy People, which provides information on what Healthy Parks Healthy People is, why it is important, the role of parks for community health and wellbeing, building knowledge, and commitments and priorities in Victoria. | Completed | Full activity report | |
| Field activities | • Parks Victoria is recruiting nine new ‘community engagement’ rangers and 40 seasonal rangers to develop and maintain diverse health sector partnerships for community activation, such as health programs, volunteering, learning and nature play. | On-going | Full activity report | |
| Policy influencing/advocacy | • Parks Victoria is leading the establishment of a new IUCN WCPA Health and Well-being Specialist Group https://www.iucn.org/theme/protected-areas/wcpa/what-we-do/health-and-wellbeing | Completed | Full activity report | |
| Scientific/technical activities | • Parks Victoria is working in collaboration with the University of Melbourne (School of Population Health) to develop a new framework for evaluating the health and wellbeing benefits of being ‘on Country’ for Indigenous Australians. | On-going | Full activity report | |
| Scientific/technical activities | • Parks Victoria’s Valuing Victoria’s Parks report, which outlines a new framework for environmental ecosystem accounting of protected areas and provides estimates the ecosystem services and benefits from Victoria’s parks (including health benefits) has been presented at four international conferences since 2016. | Completed | Full activity report |
Actors involved from Activity Reports
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Report status
Published
I. IUCN Constituencies implementing this Resolution
IUCN Members
Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water ( Australia )
Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning ( Australia )
Parks Victoria ( Australia )
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NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service ( Australia )
Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, SA ( Australia )
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Parks Canada Agency - Agence Parcs Canada ( Canada )
New Zealand Conservation Authority ( New Zealand )
The Nature Conservancy ( United States of America )
IUCN Commissions
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IUCN Secretariat
Yes
II. Implementation
Activities carried out to implement this Resolution
Convene stakeholders/Networking
Education/Communication/Raising awareness
Policy influencing/advocacy
Scientific/technical activities
Describe the results/achievements of the activities
A wide range of activities has been undertaken especially to engage partners in better understanding the underlying research rationale for nature being important in human health, to introduce this into government programmes, especially in Australia, Scotland, Canada and the USA, and to advance communications and public awareness through a range of activities. In particular, many of the organisations supporting implementation of this resolution contributed to a session in the World Conference on Human Health, at which the IUCN President participated in a high-level panel. IUCN has appointed Peter Cochrane as a member of the World Health Organization's Interagency Group on Health. Several organisations, led by Parks Victoria, have promoted the work of the IUCN WCPA Specialist Group on Health and Well-being. Reports are available on the individual actions taken.
Challenges/obstacles encountered in the implementation of this Resolution and measures taken
The initiative is a growing one, and engaging a global constituency at policy and practice levels is a huge undertaking. Gaining the trust and cooperation of public authorities is a slow process, but progress has been steady.
Future actions / activities needed for the implementation of this Resolution
All activities envisaged by the resolution are in the process of being implemented. There is strong implementation in Australia, but the resolution calls for global implementation, so the work programme over the next few years will be focused on expanding the number of partners and activities globally.
Are these actions/activities planned?
Yes
III. Status of implementation
Implementation status of this Resolution
Underway: implementation well-advanced