E4As Guide for Advancing Health and Sustainable Development - Summary (2021)

Resources and tools for policy development and implementation

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires working in transformative ways. The Guide uses the E4As approach – engage to assess, align, accelerate and account – to create a compilation of methods, diagnostic tools, guidance documents, processes and mechanisms for better policies to achieve the SDGs and advance health in the WHO European Region.

Its development responds to the request of Member States for a resource kit to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Guide has been developed in collaboration with national authorities, civil society and academia and also presents case studies from countries and institutions in the Region. The tools and methods have been developed by WHO, other United Nations agencies, academia and civil society.

The Guide can be used by policy-makers, public health institutions, academia, civil society, development partners and funding agencies within and outside the health sector, and by anyone with an interest in promoting and protecting health and well-being for all at all ages.