Dear colleagues,
As a follow up to the 2025 WHO report on Nature-based solutions and Health, the next report on nature-based solutions (NbS) and Health due May 2027 will look at practical examples of NbS implementation and their potential to benefit health. For this WHO is calling for already implemented NbS examples and related experiences from all 53 WHO Member States of the WHO European Region – covering all spatial scales and all types of settings, and also including application of NbS in health care settings or other institutionalized settings (such as, daycare, school, workplace, nursing home).
The NbS case study examples should
- be fully implemented by 2025 to allow for an assessment of impacts, and
- have an impact on health and wellbeing, either by affecting health risks and determinants, promoting healthy lifestyles, or enhancing health and wellbeing directly (even if health and wellbeing are not primary objectives of the NbS).
Please note that submitted case study examples will be reviewed by WHO through its Collaborating Centre for Natural Environments and Health at the University of Exeter, and selected submissions will be revisited in more detail. Some of the case studies may be featured in the forthcoming report on NbS and Health in 2027.
This online submission form should take around 15-20 minutes to fill.
Please note that only case studies originating from Member States of the WHO European Region will be eligible for the report (see list of countries at https://www.who.int/europe/home?v=welcome# under “Countries”).
Please share the link for this call for case studies with NbS experts and persons involved in respective projects on nature-based solutions in your ministry, institution or organisation. Also, feel free to forward the call through your networks.
Submissions will be collected until 30 April 2026.
For further questions on this call for case studies, please write to Rebecca Lovell at the WHO Collaborating Centre team at R.Lovell@exeter.ac.uk
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