The Prime Minister, Ulisses Correia e Silva, inaugurated this Friday (10), in Mindelo, the Headquarters of the Support Unit for the implementation of Healthy Cities in Cape Verde. This Headquarters will be the first Healthy Cities office in the WHO African Region.
The inauguration of the facilities of the Support Unit for the implementation of Healthy Cities in Cape Verde, located at Avenida Baltazar Lopes da Silva, is scheduled for the afternoon.
The headquarters of the Support Unit for the implementation of Healthy Cities in Cape Verde will also host the first ANMCV Delegation in Mindelo, also marking the purpose of decentralization.
The Healthy Cities Movement was signed in February 2017, in the Declaration of Mindelo, by a wide range of entities and representatives of the living forces of the country.
“It was the beginning of the process for the insertion of Cape Verde in the healthy city movement, created in 1988 by the World Health Organization and based on the philosophy that ‘health is a state of total physical, mental and social well-being, and not the mere absence of disease'”, one can read in a government press release.
The city of Mindelo marked this starting point with the signing of the Declaration, and embodied the plan to build healthier and more sustainable Cape Verdean cities, respecting harmonious and inclusive urban planning, with emphasis on economic, social and environmental aspects.
The Government of Cape Verde has chosen multi-sectoral and intersectoral approach with strategic development axes based on Agenda 2030 and the Location of Sustainable Development Objectives.
The Healthy Cities approach presents a multi-sectoral and multilevel nature of intervention based on collaborative and participatory action. Moreover, through the strengthening of decentralization and territorialisation of the Strategic Plan for Sustainable Development, the Government, in partnership with the Municipalities, has been working to create the conditions to strengthen territorial cohesion and make cities and communities more attractive, inclusive and resilient. The Executive has made strong investments in urban and environmental requalification infrastructures.
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