The Regional Forum on Environment and Health was developed jointly by WHO and UNEP, following the recommendations of the First and Second High-Level Meetings on Environment and Health held in Manila, Philippines in November 2004, and in Bangkok, Thailand in December 2005 respectively.  WHO and UNEP also established its Ministerial Regional Forum, with a Charter that defines the mechanism and priorities for the regional cooperation in environmental health among participating countries and institutions. 

Specifically, it  aims to assist countries to:

(1) effectively and efficiently achieve their targets on Health, Environmental Sustainability, Poverty, and Global Partnership for Development under the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals (MDG);

(2) institutionalize the integrated management of environmental health at all levels within each participating country and among the South-East and East Asian countries through the setting up of a coordinative insitutional mechanism; and

(3) enable countries to assess priority environmental health risks, develop and implement cost-effective National Environmental Health Action Plans (NEHAP) and disseminate the same to the various stakeholders.

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