On the 29^th of November 2018, the Bertha Gxowa Hospital Environmental Health Division, a GGHH member in South Africa, received a Khanyisa Service Excellence award for their quality improvement project that focuses on health care waste minimization and recycling.

Organized by HCWH Europe with members of the Global Green and Healthy Hospitals (GGHH) network, this webinar will showcase a number of health care institutions in Europe who have made the 100% renewable electricity commitment. Join us to learn about their ambitious targets and the strategies they will implement to reach them.

In April of 2018, UNDP and Health Care WIthout Harm held a three-day Orientation, Planning and Inception workshop in Istanbul, Turkey to launch the Sustainable Health in Procurement Project.

The workshop brought together more than 60 participants including representatives of the governments of the project countries, UN agencies, civil society and technical experts from across the globe. The workshop aimed to introduce SHiPP to the participants as well as use the opportunity to orient them on the relationship between environment and climate change on health outcomes and more specifically the role that sustainable procurement can play to positively impact health outcomes. The workshop also discussed the synergies with the multi-agency platform Sustainable Procurement in Health Sector (SPHS) and explored complementarity.