European perspectives on global health: a policy glossary

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4 <strong>European</strong> Foundation Centre – <strong>European</strong> Partnership for Global Health
Foreword This policy glossary is intended to encourage foundations and other <strong>European</strong> institutions to play a more active role in global health. It is designed to inform policy deliberations in the wider political, economic and social spheres, setting out the challenges of global health and laying the groundwork for coordinated, cross-sector <strong>European</strong> action. Health Organization Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen in February 2005. Its publication and discussion should raise awareness about global health among foundation and other institution leaders and should serve as a resource on how global health can be strengthened in existing programmes and by new partnership initiatives. <strong>European</strong> foundations active within the <strong>European</strong> Foundation Centre and its Europe in the World initiative have recognised the importance of health in an interdependent world and have taken a range of cooperation and networking initiatives with international organisations, political institutions and academic organisations. The initiative has urged foundations to spend 5 % outside Europe on global and development issues – particularly the Millennium Development Goals. The EFC and its members have also recognised that further information and advocacy is needed to mobilise political and social action within Europe, to take the global health agenda forward and to translate <strong>European</strong> values of sustainable development and a commitment to human rights into action on health as a global public good. In short, the key message is that the <strong>European</strong> Union should play a more proactive role in global health, together with foundations, the corporate sector, health professional groups, NGOs and other <strong>European</strong> organisations. These should be brought together through networks such as NEF ( Network of <strong>European</strong> Foundations ), Europe’s national associations of donors, and <strong>European</strong> and other national health networks and institutions with an interest in global health. The mechanism for this collaboration should be a <strong>European</strong> Strategy for Global Health. The idea of a policy glossary was conceived following a panel at the <strong>European</strong> Health Policy Forum at Bad Gastein 2004 in which Health Commissioner David Byrne made a strong plea for a more consolidated <strong>European</strong> approach to global health. It was reinforced at a joint meeting between the EFC’s <strong>European</strong> Partnership for Global Health and the World Global Health Policy Glossary In a globalising world there is no such place as abroad – problems and solutions reach across national borders resulting in the need for international collaboration and abolishing the distinction between internal and external national responses. The processes of globalisation are leading to the internationalisation of health risks and ever greater interdependence. Global health requires cooperation and coordination. There is a need for opportunities to exchange ideas and learn from one another, to develop joint action and to protect, promote and improve health. The promotion of a <strong>European</strong> perspective on global health reflects the long tradition of foundations as private civil society entities serving public goals. In a world in which civil society has a global context of social and political change and the state is no longer the only guardian of the public interest, foundations have an even more crucial role in promoting public benefit and the global public good. The distinctive characteristics of foundations allow them to add value as philanthropic “venture capitalists”, facilitating change in public policy, acting as independent brokers for new ideas, convening meetings with nontraditional stakeholders and bringing their unique <strong>perspectives</strong> to issues of common concern. They can promote diversity of thought, search for solutions for action, foster international collaboration, provide working capital for ideas to bring them to the market of mainstream funders, and manage the turbulence associated with new and challenging ideas. This glossary will help foundations add value in advancing the global agenda, recognising that the world is facing an unprecedented set of challenges and that the current system for global problem-solving is illequipped to deal with them. 5
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