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Dear members of the EHTF,

Following the 2025 WHO report on Nature-based solutions and Health and the consultation with Member States through the EHTF in September 2025, WHO is planning the next report on NbS and health, to be published in May 2027. The report will focus on practical examples of NbS implementation and their benefits for health.

To support this work, we are pleased to invite you to submit implemented NbS examples and related experiences from across Member States in the WHO European Region, covering a wide range of institutional settings (such as day care, schools, workplaces and nursing homes).

National, regional and urban experiences and case studies on NbS and health can be submitted until 30 April at https://extranet.who.int/dataformv6/NbS-Case-Studies . Submission take approximately 15-20 minutes and are only possible in English.

Case studies should:

be fully implemented by 2025 to allow for an assessment of impacts, and
demonstrate impacts on health and wellbeing (e.g. affecting health risks and determinants, promoting healthy lifestyles, or directly improving wellbeing even if health and wellbeing are not primary objectives of the NbS).

As you may recall, during the September 2025 consultation on NbS and health, Member States highlighted knowledge gaps related to:

Clear guidance, legal frameworks & mandates
Robust evidence and research
Capacity, funding & expertise
Improved understanding of health impacts & co-benefits
Use of NbS to highlight shared goals & co-benefits
Create cross-sectoral structures & processes
Leverage practical examples & evidence
Enable political support, awareness & mutual understanding

The compilation of case studies and national experiences on nature-based solutions and health will help address these areas.

Submitted case studies will be reviewed by WHO, with support from its Collaborating Centre for Natural Environments and Health at the University of Exeter. Selected submissions may be further explored in more detail and featured in the 2027 report on NbS and health.

We would appreciate it if you could share this call with relevant experts and stakeholders in your ministry, institution or network.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Warm regards,

EHP Secretariat

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EHP Secretariat
WHO Regional Office for Europe | European Centre for Environment, Climate Change and Health | Bonn, Germany
E-mail: [email protected] | Web: European Environment and Health Process (EHP)

NBS and health case study submission form.pdf

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 [email protected]

Section A: Context

A1.

Please describe the nature-based intervention and what was done (up to 30 words).

A2.

In what year was the intervention implemented?

If the implementation was done over more than one year, please provide the year when the project was finalized.

before 2000

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

A3. In which country was the intervention implemented? (NB - only Member States of the WHO European Region are eligible)

Albania

Andorra

Armenia

Austria

Azerbaijan

Belarus

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czechia

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Georgia

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Monaco

Montenegro

Netherlands (Kingdom of the)

North Macedonia

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Republic of Moldova

Romania

Russian Federation

San Marino

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Tajikistan

Türkiye

Turkmenistan

Ukraine

United Kingdom

Uzbekistan

A4. In which city / cities or which region(s) was the intervention implemented (up to 15 words)?

A5. In which setting was the intervention implemented? Please choose one option only.

Public space

Health care facility

Institutional setting (day care, school, nursing home etc.)

Private space (company grounds etc.)

Other (please indicate)

A6. Please describe, in a few words, the setting or place in which the intervention was implemented (up to 15 words).

A7. Please list the lead agency for the intervention, and the key partners (up to 30 words).

Section B: Objectives and impacts

B1. What was the main objective for implementing the nature-based solution intervention (up to 30 words)?

B2.

What were the expected impacts or outcomes of the intervention (up to 30 words)?

B3.

What were the outcomes and results of the intervention? Were the expectations fulfilled (up to 60 words)?

B4. Does the implemented nature-based solution:

Yes Uncertain No

specifically address or consider human health challenges?

integrate across sectors (such as environment, health, economics, planning, transport etc.)?

consider ecosystem renewal/biodiversity restoration/nature recovery?

consider economic benefits?

include equitable governance and community participation?

balance trade-offs and mitigate risks?

involve adaptative management following ongoing evaluation of impacts?

consider sustainability and long-term viability?

B5.

Please indicate how the implemented nature-based solution relates to health and wellbeing (up to 50 words).

B6.

Please provide one or two key messages learnt from the project (up to 50 words).

Section C: Resources

C1. If available, please provide the URL to a webpage containing information on the project/intervention.

C2. If there have been any reports or publications of the project, please upload up to three respective files here.

C3.

Please upload up to three photographs or images related to the intervention.

In the upload window you can add a title and a comment. In the title box, please enter the name of the project site (e.g. "Central Park, London"), and in the comment box please indicate the name of the copyright holder (e.g. "Laura Miller" or "City of London").

If any of these images will be used for the forthcoming report, WHO will need to obtain formal permission from the copyright holder at later stage for using the image.

C4.

The WHO Collaborating Centre for Natural Environments and Health will follow up with the selected case studies of interest for the report. Who is the contact person for follow up if your case study is selected for further review, and potentially for being used for the report? Name:

Job title:

Institution:

City:

Email:

Thank you for submitting your NBS case study.

All submissions will be reviewed by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Natural Environments and Health at the University of Exeter, and possibly selected for further exploration – in such case, we

will contact you directly.

In case of any questions, please contact Rebecca Lovell at the WHO Collaborating Centre team at [email protected]

Best regards from the

WHO European Centre for Environment and Health

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