On September 23, we received with great pride the Healthy Cities Award – “United Nations Inter Agency Task Force – 2019, at the United Nations in New York. Cape Verde is to be congratulated. I believe that building Healthier and Happier Cities is a Commitment for All and for Everyone so that no one is left behind.
It is a recognition of this Government’s commitment by electing multisectorality and intersectorality as strategic development axes based on Agenda 2030 and the Location of Sustainable Development Goals. In our governance program, we have established a new conception of development with the strengthening of Local Power and the decentralized partnership between public and private entities.
We have managed to create a multi-sectoral approach to health, prioritizing the Local scenario, placing health in all policies and addressing the main risk factors for citizens’ health in all life cycles. Healthy cities are the structuring element for the passage to healthy islands and country.
In April 2018, I created the Healthy Cities Implementation Support Unit, a national structure for the development of the Healthy Cities Movement in Cape Verde, through a Protocol established with the National Association of Cape Verdean Municipalities (ANMCV), with institutional and technical monitoring by WHO.
In this way, Cape Verde became the first country in the African region to take on the WHO Healthy Cities approach and led the development of an innovative and unique model of governance between the Central Government and Local Government.
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