Background on the issue your vision is tackling:
Drivers of the (re-)emergence of disease at human-animal interface are insufficiently being addressed
- Climate change and desertification are not sufficiently included in pandemic PPP while they are part of the root causes of pandemic outbreaks.
- Lacking surveillance systems and laboratory capacity with One Health approach
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Notes from backcasting exercise:
Collective brainstorming on the following questions:
- Which policy measures should be taken?
- Who should act in CH, internationally? → 3 policy angles (multilateral level, CH policies at the national level + through engagement abroad e.g. development policy)
- Vision: 2040
Global Health at its Peak: How cholera was eradicated from the Ganges river.
- 2030
- UN-Water / International Water Insititution (IWI) : Strongly relevant with binding power and ensures equitable and safer access to water. (Could be UN Water or another organization that is independent and fair
- Global network for knowledge and technology transfer.
- Patent-Free tool to analyze bacterial load and viral load in water
- UN-Water: Provides this technology transfer, capacity building, and intervention in water management disputes.
- 2026
- There is an internationally binding treaty, that hight-lights the relevance of an international organization for Water Management that includes a stream of work Science-Diplomacy on water access and health water access. Desiritifiaction should also be a stream of work of this organization.
- Does this treaty get full control of water management and access?
- Every country should report on what have they done and share their work streams.
- The organization will be also in charge of acquiring patterns and making technology accessible
- 2024
- Access to water as a global public good recognize in PPP and recognize that public goods should be shared. Recognize the right to access heal and safe water especially under pandemic situations it is ensured.
- More media and communication around people to understand the positive values and attributes of the treaty and how water management should be reflected there.
- Highlight the burden of water-communicated diseases with some predictions if we don't do something about it this will happen. Also, make public more information or where we are starting.
- Raising awareness of how important and crucial it is the potential for water-born pandemics.
- Try to involve more civil societies in their campaign and lobbying.
- Show awareness and remark on the importance of access to healthy water.
- Create a separate agreement where it can be more detailed how the operationalization of the new water management body will look like.
- Campaign in UN Water, intervention in Schools, or onboarding celebrities to raise awareness.