Editorials
| Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Princess Muna of Jordan |
| Rev. Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus |
| Sir Michael Marmot, Chair WHO Commission of Social Determinants of Health and Dr. Ruth Bell |
| Caroline Worthington, Director, Florence Nightingale Museum |
| Mary Spinks, Director, Florence Nightingale Foundation |
| Wendy Williams, Ministry of Defence, UK |
| Deva Marie-Beck, co-Director, NIGH |
| Barbara Dossey, co-Director, NIGH |
| Baroness Cox of Queensbury |
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About The Campaign |
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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 starting in 2007.
2) The worldwide celebration of the 2010 International Year of the Nurse / Centennial of Florence Nightingale [1820-1910]
Building upon the first strategy, NIGH will submit these signatures in support of the global recognition of this celebration by the United Nations and all UN Member States.
The goal is two-fold:
• To be a catalyst for nurses to celebrate the 2010 International Year of the Nurse — by actively advocating for world health, including all eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
• To be a catalyst for recognition of the 2010 International Year of the Nurse by the United Nations and all UN Member States.
3) “Mobilizing Public Opinion for the Health of Nations”
This larger global public awareness strategy involves many stakeholders — including the UN and all of its Member States — as well as grassroots-to-global civil society, including nurses and concerned citizens. This ongoing, pro-active endeavor is essential to our longer-term vision of "a healthy world by 2020.”
The goal is two-fold:
• A United Nations Resolution for “Mobilizing Public Opinion for the Health of Nations”
• Taking this international strategy to gather grassroots-to-global consensus toward a "healthy world by 2020.”
NIGH is working as a catalyst for adoption of this proposed Resolution — by the United Nations General Assembly [in November/December 2009]
4) A proposed UN Resolution for a Healthy World--2011 to 2020 —- the Bicentennial of Nightingale's birth.
Building upon the momentum gathering from these three strategies — and in collaboration with many stakeholders worldwide — NIGH is working to be a catalyst for further action within the United Nations and all UN Member States toward proposing a stronger global commitment to “achieve a healthy world by 2020.”
The goal is two-fold:
• Involve pro-active grassroots-to-global efforts to bring this longer-term vision toward “a healthy world by 2020.”
• Propose, together, the adoption of a UN Resolution for a Healthy World, 2011-2020.
5) Convene global consultations and regional education programs to build a worldwide collaborative NDC team.
Continuing from NIGH's launch of this Campaign, this growing team is being developed to effectively stay in touch with and support each other and to gather their networks of colleagues. These meetings are intended to support a worldwide education outreach.
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:
1. Global commitment — of nurses — to create healthy communities around the world through nursing practices that reflect the principles and practices of Florence Nightingale
2. 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
3. A pro-active grassroots-to-global plan -- with specific national and regional action steps -- to implement a series of projects targeted toward achieving “a healthy world by 2020.”
4. This plan is being 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 all of the above strategies. The proposed print publication can 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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