CoPEH-MENA - Fostering Collaboration: International Development Research Centre

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CoPEH-MENA - Fostering Collaboration

In MENA, institutional collaboration is a long-standing challenge. During a peer-review of projects workshop supported by Ecohealth held in Cairo, Egypt in February 2005, participants expressed the need for a network of ecohealth practitioners that could address environmental challenges to human health through institutional collaboration and knowledge sharing across national boundaries.

Currently in its development phase, CoPEH MENA aims to overcome the challenges of limited institutional collaboration in the region and is working towards strengthening research capacity, attracting new members, fostering collaboration, and providing access to otherwise unavailable resources such as publications. The members will initially focus on water resource management to enhance human health and well being, which is one of the most pressing issues in the region. Through support from IDRC and the Ford Foundation, CoPEH- MENA is working to build a strong foundation of ecohealth researchers. Members of CoPEH-MENA are drawn from six projects teams supported by IDRC in Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, and Jordan, but with plans to expand throughout the region.

The objectives for CoPEH-MENA include:

To stimulate innovative thinking and sound research on integrated health and environment approaches to development;
To promote collaboration between researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers through knowledge sharing and networking for a more informed policy environment and exploring the policy environment and linking research to action;
To strengthen local and regional capacities of key stakeholders, especially young researchers and professionals on integrated health and environment approaches to development; and
To develop and implement a resource expansion strategy for engaging strategic national and international partnerships and resources to sustain the COPEH.

For more information, visit the CoPEH-MENA web site.