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Piloting Climate Change Adaptation to Protect Human Health
Submitted by Yury Zhukov on Wed, 2011-08-31 17:05Individual Projects:
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To increase adaptive capacity of national health system institutions, including field practitioners, to respond to climate change-sensitive health risks.
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- Climate change and health early warning and planning systems
- Institutional and technical capacity to manage climate change health risks
- Demonstration Measures to reduce vulnerability
- Regional Cooperation to address climate change health risks
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- Outcome 1: Early warning systems will be adjusted to include climate change induced health risks.
- Outcome 2: Capacity of health sector institutions to respond to climate-sensitive health risks will be improved.
- Outcome 3: Prevention measures piloted in emerging and epidemic risk area.
- Outcome 4: Cooperation among participating countries promotes innovation in adaptation to climate change including variability.
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- Contact: Pradeep Kurukulasuriya,
- (212) 906-6843
- Email: pradeep.kurukulasuriya@undp.org
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WHO: Health and Climate Adaptation Bulletin
Submitted by Thomas Park on Wed, 2011-08-24 14:46Year:
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This second bulletin outlines some of the initiatives and major progresses made by seven countries to protect health from climate change, under the joint WHO/UNDP/GEF project titled: "Piloting Climate Change Adaptation to Protect Global Health". The newsletter also mentions specifically the health projects discussed at the conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) in Bangladesh, emphasising how the local communities and formal health sectors can work together to protect vulnerable people from the health risks that co
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Climate Change, Hydro-Conflicts and Human Security - CLICO
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United Nations University-EHS, European CommissionSummary:
CLICO is a three year research project funded by the European Commission.
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CLICO pursues the following two objectives:
- To understand and model the relationships between hydro-climatic hazards, climate change vulnerability, human security and conflict, on the basis of theoretically-informed, comparative empirical research.
- To map international and national policies for security and adaptation in water resources and hazard management, and develop a policy model for security against hydro-climatic hazards (“hydro-security”) in the region, applicable to the UN, EU and national states.
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Lars Wirkus
Research Associate
Tel.: + 49-228-815-0209
e-mail: wirkus@ehs.unu.eduProject Status:
Under Implementation (time span: Jan 2010 - Dec 2012)
IFAD: Villages on the Front Line - Jordan
Submitted by chocho on Wed, 2011-03-09 16:51
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Jordan is in the part of the world where farming began. Ninety percent of the country receives less than 25 centimetres of rain a year. Without the farmers it would revert to desert. Down the centuries they were ingenious at developing sophisticated methods to use water sparingly: now lapsed into disrepair, the water channels that fed Petra are evidence of this skill. But Jordan, with a burgeoning human population swelled by refugees from the Middle East conflicts, faces a crisis. Demand for water is so great that the Dead Sea itself is predicted to disappear.
Piloting Climate Change Adaptation to Protect Human Health
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Project details
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
UNDP, World Health Organization and Ministries of Health in the pilot countriesSummary:
Description
To increase adaptive capacity of national health system institutions, including field practitioners, to respond to climate change-sensitive health risks.
Summary
Project Components:
- Climate change and health early warning and planning systems
- Institutional and technical capacity to manage climate change health risks
- Demonstration Measures to reduce vulnerability
- Regional Cooperation to address climate change health risks
Expected Outputs:
- Outcome 1: Early warning systems will be adjusted to include climate change induced health risks.
- Outcome 2: Capacity of health sector institutions to respond to climate-sensitive health risks will be improved.
- Outcome 3: Prevention measures piloted in emerging and epidemic risk area.
- Outcome 4: Cooperation among participating countries promotes innovation in adaptation to climate change including variability.
Contacts:
Contact: Pradeep Kurukulasuriya (UNDP)
(212) 906-6843
Email: pradeep.kurukulasuriya@undp.org
Contact: Joy Guillemot (WHO)
Email: guillemotj@who.int
Project Status:
CEO Endorsed (November 30, 2009).
