Climate change and human health

Projects

The Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) Adaptation Programme in Africa
This new programme will help to guide decision makers and public health authorities to provide well –targeted climate services in countries in Africa through operationalizing the GFCS to obtain accessible and accurate climate service information.

Adaptation to climate change in the health sector: Improving engagement, evidence and action in sub-Saharan African countries
The Project focus on a strengthened positioning of health issues in the international debate on adaptation to climate change and a higher prioritization at a national level.

Norway - WHO collaboration on "Building sustainable health systems: Focus on climate resilience"
The initiative acts to support countries in building their capacity to assess climate risks to health, address them through strengthening interventions, and monitor progress through indicators of climate resilience.

Building adaptation to climate change in health in least developed countries through resilient water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
This project support the development of effective plans for climate change adaptation in the health sector in low and low-middle income countries.

Climate Change Adaptation to Protect Human Health
WHO, along with UNDP, launched in 2010 the first global project on public health adaptation to climate change. This series of pilot projects aim to “increase adaptive capacity of national health system institutions, including field practitioners, to respond to climate-sensitive health risks”.

Protecting health from climate change
WHO/Europe and the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) are implementing a seven country initiative to protect health from climate change. The project addresses climate adaptation, strengthening of health systems and building institutional capacity in Albania, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Uzbekistan.