Health and Climate Partnership

Partners

 

• Intergovernmental Organizations
  • WHO
    • Communicable Diseases, Switzerland
    • Multi Disease Surveillance Centre, Bukina Faso
    • Public Health Mapping and GIS, Switzerland
    • Public Health and Environment, Switzerland
  • GEO
    • Health Program, Switzerland
  • IGAD
    • Climate Prediction and Application Centre, Kenya
  • WMO
    • African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development, Niger
• Universities / Research Institutions
  • International Research Institute for Climate and Society, USA
    • Impacts
  • Centre de Recherche Médical et Sanitaire, Niger
  • Kenyan Medical Research Institute
    • Climate and Human Health Research Unit
  • Institute Pasteur de Madagascar
    • Malaria
• Government Organizations
  • France
    • Météo France
  • USA
    • EPA Bio diversity and Human Health Program
    • NOAA National Centres for Environmental Prediction
    • NOAA National Oceans Service Oceans and Human Health Program
• Non-Governmental Organizations
  • Health and Climate Foundation
• Private Sector
  • Jena-Optronik, Germany

 

Mission

The Health and Climate Partnership was created in April 2006 to increase cooperation between organizations involved in health, climate, humanitarian assistance, ecosystems, research and operational services.  It provides a focus for the practical implementation of health and climate programmes and projects, in particular, to help Africans find sustainable ways to improve health outcomes for those at risk from climate-sensitive diseases.  The partnership is committed to:

• Working with local communities to develop and try methods to use environmental information more effectively to provide early warning of potential disease outbreaks and to reduce the impact of climate sensitive-diseases and other related environmental threats
• Working with the health sector to improve communication between remote regions and health centres to improve diagnoses
• Protecting and enhancing ecosystem services to reduce the risk of future adverse health effects associated with climate change 
• Supporting existing health and climate activities
• Providing a focus for health and climate related activities in support of the objectives of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) leading to the development of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)
• Raising donor awareness of specific community needs and opportunities
• Providing a forum to share ideas, knowledge and best practices in health, climate, environmental, and humanitarian assistance
• Educating and training public health workers on climate issues relevant to better health care; educating and training environmental scientists on health issues relevant to better assessments and climate-related warning services

Community of Practise

The Partnership is a community of practise providing its members with an opportunity to share skills and increase opportunities for collaboration between health and climate services.

Governance

The Health and Climate Partnership for Africa is open to governmental, non-governmental and international organizations that are contributing to improving the health outcomes for the millions of people exposed to climate-sensitive diseases. Through these actions the Partnership is committed to the implementing: i)                    Agenda 21; ii)                  The Programme for Further Implementation of Agenda 21; iii)                 The Johannesburg Plan of Implementation; and iv)                The Millennium development Goals.

 

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