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IPI NffilINATKINAL PIACI The Rothschild Conference on Health and Security "Peace is a prerequisite for Health" (The Ottawa Charter for health Promotion, 21 November 1986) I. Need for action The planet is facing challenges to biological security, including pandemic diseases, resurgent diseases, or accidental or deliberately perpetrated outbreaks. Several regions suffer from hunger caused by food insecurity or conflict. Areas where there is instability and weak governance are particularly vulnerable. This development shows the link between instability and disease and highlights the need for coordinated action. Therefore, to improve health it is essential to reduce violence and promote peace. The recent outbreak of Ebola, its rapid spread, and the inability of weak states to cope with the epidemic shows that the world urgently needs to find a better way to anticipate and respond to such health disasters. Furthermore, the unprecedented spread of Ebola demonstrates how dramatically a health crisis can become a humanitarian, security and economic crisis. As the epidemic spreads exponentially, doubling its death toll every few weeks, it is also affecting local security (like rioting), the stability of entire countries (like Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone) as well as regions (like West Africa). The epidemic has paralyzed health care systems, also causing deaths among patients with curable diseases. Latest estimations are predicting that 1.5 million people might be infected by the beginning of January 2015. Expected GDP growth rates are reduced by multiple percentage points in the region, but the World Bank's Chief economist expects the negative economic impact to rather be in the order of billions of dollars. In the case of polio the security situation is seen as the biggest barrier to the disease's global eradication. New ways to enable mass immunization need to be developed and implemented in remote areas which sometimes are not controlled by the central government. Diplomacy, strategic coordination and advocacy in combination with a broad range of health care services will be the key to access previously inaccessible regions. 1 EFTA_R1_01967665 EFTA02676303 II. Project Description, Methodology and Output In order to deal with the multidisciplinary nature of public health problems and their interdependencies, primary activities will include convening two meetings on Health and Security, with a particular focus on Ebola and its implications for global health and security. The meetings will bring together political decision makers and high level officials of multi- lateral organizations with experts from various backgrounds (i.e. historians, sociologists, anthropologists, public health specialists, medical doctors, pharmaceutical specialist etc.). In the first project phase, IPI will conduct initial research in order to provide briefing materials for the participants of the meetings. The research will focus on the security aspect of Ebola analyzing how health issues in particular epidemics can destabilize countries and regions. In the second project phase IPI intends to discuss the following topics in a high level meeting in New York and a multi-day workshop in Geneva in the first quarter of 2015 with the goal to develop policy recommendations: i. Historical Overview of Epidemics ii. Impact and Spread of Epidemics iii. Case Study: How the Polio Eradication Initiative helped contain Ebola in Nigeria iv. Preparation: Building resilient health care systems v. Response: Effectively and quickly deploying measures to deal with health issues vi. Best practices in management and coordination of multiple stakeholders In collaboration with its partners, IPI will then disseminate the output of the meetings and publish the recommendations. As an Organization focusing on creating impact and achieving results, IPI will, in a third project phase, follow up with participants and key decision makers on the progress of policy implementation and its consequences. This will involve embarking on an advocacy campaign through private and public diplomacy. In addition IPI will use its online presence (particularly IPI's global observatory) to reach a broader international audience. Finally, the Independent Commission for Multilateralism will use the output to present it to all donor countries as recommendation on how to effectively deal with the problems of health and security through innovative solutions. 2 EFTA_R1_01967666 EFTA02676304 III. IPI's Impact and Value Add As an independent international think- and do-tank, IPI is particularly experienced in convening key decision makers from the public sector, international organizations and the private sector. In particular, IPI will draw on its existing network of contact and long- standing partnership with key organizations involved in the issue of peace and health as well as humanitarian issues. These include the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In the case of fighting epidemics, communication and collaboration amongst various stakeholders is crucial in order to facilitate a systematic approach that is also flexible to new developments. Desired outcomes of the meetings and workshops will be i. Identifying and prioritizing short term tasks and long term development goals in fighting Ebola and epidemic diseases in general ii. Develop framework for collaboration, communication and early warning iii. Distributing tasks and development goals amongst stakeholders iv. Developing solutions through policy recommendations and publications v. Follow-up with key decision makers through a multi-channel approach to ensure the implementation of policy recommendations The aim is to proactively provide and implement solutions as well as encourage adaptive leadership in order to reduce the potential harm caused by conflict and instability, to enable policy makers to be better prepared to cope with these crises and to face the challenges of the future, save lives and improve wellbeing. The International Peace Institute is serving as the secretariat of the Independent Commission for Multilateralism (ICM), which was launched in 2014. One of the 15 core agenda items of the ICM is finding new ways and approaches to deal with health & security. Therefore, the ICM will be a valuable partner in providing an additional platform to host discussions (i) for high level decision makers, (ii) for additional outreach and communication of key findings and solutions and (iii) to follow up on the implementation of policy recommendations. 3 EFTA_R1_01967667 EFTA02676305 IV. Budget The Rothschild Conference on Health and Security BUDGET: December 2014 - December 2015 EXPENSES PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION Research, Analysis & Policy Development Research & Program staffing 448.000 Research Activities: Consulting fees & expenses 84.000 Internship - stipend, expenses Books, periodicals, and subscriptions (specific to project) 1.000 Staff traveriaccomodation 20.000 Total Research Activities 105.000 Total Research, Analysis & Policy Development 553.000 Meeting& Events & Dialogue Events staffing 25.800 2 High level meetings (accomodation/fiight/etc.) for 20 pax in New York & Geneve 197.900 Events Activities: Staff travel/accomodation 52.980 Professional fees (photographer, interpretation): 2.000 Total Events Activities 54.980 Total Meetings, Events & Dialogue 278.680 Publications & Dissemination (print & online} Publications staffing 19.500 Publications Activities• Publishing & printing 10.000 Freight, delivery & postage (dissemination) 1.000 Miscellaneous / Other (photos) Total Publications Activities 11.000 Total Publications & Dissemination 30.500 Proaram Outreach Membership dues & conference registration 2.000 Staff traveriaccomodation 13.000 Total Program Outreach 15.000 Total Program Implementation 877.180 PROGRAM SUPPORT & ADMINISTRATION Program Support & Administrative Staffing Program & Administrative Operations Total Program Support & Administration Overhead 122.805 TOTAL EXPENSES 999.985 4 EFTA_R1_01967668 EFTA02676306