The mission of the Protection of the Human Environment Programme is to provide guidance and technical support to Member States of the WHO African Region to formulate, implement, monitor and evaluate policies, strategies and action plans that are effective in addressing health and environment linkages, in view of achieving the MDGs and in the context of the Libreville Declaration on health and environment in Africa.

Overview

Objectives/functions

Policies and strategies

Regional targets

PHE featured publications:

Public Health and Environment in the Africa Region: Report on the work of WHO (2008–2009)	Health Security through Healthy Environments, Report of the First Interministerial Conference on Health and Environment in Africa	Libreville Declaration on Health and Environment in Africa Libreville 29 August 2008