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December 6, 2007

SEE Regional Training Workshop on Designing and Carrying out Anti-Smoking Media Campaigns

In the framework of the Component Three of the above project, a SEE regional training workshop on designing and carrying out antismoking campaigns will be held from 14 to 16 December 2007 in Zagreb, Croatia. The workshop will be organized by WHO Regional Office for Europe, in collaboration with the Croatian Ministry of Health.

The objectives of the workshop are:

• To prepare and produce materials for, and help countries in the region to design and carry out, successful anti-tobacco campaigns.
• To create appropriate key anti-tobacco messages as part of campaigns, in order to back up other tobacco control measures.
• To design appropriate activities for specific target groups such as young people and parents.
• To train professionals to organize and deliver mass media anti-tobacco campaigns at national or local level.
• To study and agree on the best methods for evaluating the mass media campaigns and using the lessons learned from other countries in the WHO European Region.

Participants would involve health professionals involved in tobacco control, journalists, persons involved in communication in general and representatives of anti-tobacco NGOs. After the workshop, participants are expected to build the capacity for a national network to plan, manage and implement anti-smoking campaigns.

WHO will invite international experts to share contemporary knowledge and experiences with participants of the workshop.

Back-to-back to the training workshop, the 5th Meeting of the Country Project Managers of this project will be held to review the outcomes of the overall project throughout its three components, challenges faced and lessons learned during its implementation, and make suggestions for tobacco control activities at national and regional level in the future.

Download Traning Programme (PDF document)

Download Meeting Programme (PDF document)

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July 26, 2007

National Meetings on Capacity Building in Tobacco Control

National Meetings on Capacity Building in Tobacco Control

• 07 – 08 December 2006, Skopje, The Federal Republic of Macedonia
• 08 – 09 February 2007, Tivat, Montenegro
• 19 – 21 February 2007, Velingrad, Bulgaria
• 21 – 23 February 2007, Iriški Venac, Srbija
• 12 – 13 March 2007, Tirana, Albania
• 15 – 16 April 2007, Bucharest, Romania
• 16 – 17 April 2007, Zagreb, Croatia
• 18 April 2007, Chisinau, Moldova
• 29 May 2007, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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July 18, 2006

Intersectoral workshop on health promotion and comprehensive tobacco control for south-eastern European countries; 11-13 October 2006 in Bled, Slovenia

Intersectoral workshop in Bled, Slovenia. 11-13 October 2006.

As a part of project component 2, WHO Regional Office for Europe in collaboration with Slovenia is organizing a 3-days intersectoral capacity building workshop on comprehensive tobacco control policies for south-eastern European countries. The workshop will be organized on 11-13 October in Bled, in collaboration with and hosted by the Slovenian Ministry of Health.

The objectives of the workshops are:

- to strengthen the inter-sectoral capacity for tobacco control in SEE countries,
- to train persons who could serve as reference focal points in their country in the respective sectors,
- to promote a clear inter-sectoral understanding of comprehensive tobacco control,
- to promote the need for a team approach and collaboration at country level between public health, economical and legal sectors for tobacco control, other sectors as necessary,
- to identify and promote the legislative, economical, technical, capacity-building and infrastructure measures and activities needed in countries to lay the groundwork for implementing the Framework Convention

Download Provisional Programme (PDF | 170KB)

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July 17, 2006

New SEE Tobacco control website

Our new website is now online. The web site features accessible information structure, and is aimed at delivering relevant information, fast and easy. Made with latest web technologies, it meats the accessibility and usability standards defined by the EU, witch makes it available to the widest possible audience.
For our project partners, the protected area is now operational, and will enable easy document sharing, so we can all stay up to date with the latest documents and regulations concerning our project.
We hope our website will meet all of your demands, and you will have a pleasant time using it.

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