Call for Nominations: WHO World No Tobacco Day Awards

The objective of these criteria is to facilitate nominations, bearing in mind that the final decision about whether to bestow an award rests with the WHO Regional Directors and the WHO Director-General.

There will be a maximum of six World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) awards per WHO region. Two of the awardees might be granted special recognition by means of a WHO Director-General Special Recognition Award.

Theme

• Protecting children from tobacco industry interference

Possible reasons for nominations are:

• The nomination can be for a particular action, or for a group of actions, or for the body of a nominee’s work in the area of tobacco control at any local, national, regional or international level.
• The nominee may have set a meritorious (or distinctive) example for others in the tobacco control movement.
• The nominee may have overcome a big obstacle in achieving the objective for which he or she is considered worthy of a World No Tobacco Day award.
• The nominee may have demonstrated outstanding leadership or commitment or been particularly innovative in his or her approach to tobacco control.
• The nominee may have brought particular resources or knowledge or expertise to bear on tobacco control.
• The nominee may have made an outstanding contribution to tobacco control as a crucial measure to rolling back noncommunicable diseases to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages).
• Nominations for reasons based on the regular parliamentary or administrative work of nominees (in official or personal capacity), e.g. the hosting or chairing of meetings, will not be considered.

Who can be nominated?

• The nominee can be an individual or a collective (e.g., a nongovernmental organization devoted to tobacco control) or a government department/Ministry that has made outstanding contribution to tobacco control.
• The nominee must have made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the policies and measures contained in the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and its guidelines, particularly in relation to the theme of World No Tobacco Day.

Who cannot be nominated?

• WHO or other United Nations staff and their relatives.
• People or collectives employed by or involved with the tobacco industry and their relatives.
• People or collectives who had received a World No Tobacco Day award in the two previous years.

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