The Nightingale Declaration Campaign (NDC) is a programme of the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH).
The Nightingale Declaration Campaign has been created by NIGH to achieve the following key strategies:
1) A grassroots-to-global Nightingale Declaration Signature Campaign.
This first strategy is aimed at gathering individual commitments from around the world.
The goal is: at least 2 million electronic signatures of concerned citizens from all 192 member states of the United Nations between 2006 and 2008.
2) A proposed UN Resolution for an International Year of the Nurse in 2010 -- the Centennial of Florence Nightingale's death.
Building upon the first strategy, NIGH will submit these signatures in support of the adoption of this proposed Resolution — by the United Nations General Assembly [in November/December 2008]
The goal is: The adoption of this UN Resolution for the International Year of the Nurse in 2010.
3) A proposed UN Resolution for a UN Decade for a Healthy World--2011 to 2020 —- the Bicentennial of Nightingale's birth.
Building upon these first and second strategies, NIGH will submit these signatures in support of the adoption of this proposed Resolution — by the United Nations General Assembly [in November/December 2009]
The goal is: The adoption of this UN Resolution for a United Nations Decade for a Healthy World, 2011-2020.
4) Starting in Fall, 2007, convene global consultations and regional education programs to build a worldwide collaborative NDC team.
This team will be prepared effectively to stay in touch with and support each other and to prepare their networks of colleagues. These meetings will launch the worldwide education outreach required to implement these UN Resolutions.
The goal is: 100 to 300 NDC team members -- including from all 192 UN member states -- prepared to collaborate, in solidarity with each other, to achieve the above strategies and strategic follow up.
We are developing NDC to accomplish several key outcomes:
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Global nursing commitment to create healthy communities around the world through nursing practices that reflect the principles and practices of Florence Nightingale
- Worldwide commitment -- from all 192 UN member states -- to celebrate the International Year of the Nurse throughout the year 2010 in their respective countries and regions, as well as globally
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With the passage of a UN Resolution to adopt 2011-2020 as the UN Decade for a Healthy world, a global plan is in place -- with specific national and regional action steps -- to implement a series of projects targeted toward creating a healthy world. This plan will be developed by nurses from around the world and in collaboration with others committed to these goals.
A series of international print-tabloid publications is also planned. These will be developed in tandem with further upgrades of this website. Both publications will become education tools to inform and strengthen the above worldwide Signature Campaign and implementation of above UN Resolutions. The print publication will be distributed to nursing and health promotion leaders and educators as well as to communication "re-disseminators," including journalists and broadcasters.
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