WHO/CEHA Collaborative

Programme on Climate

Change and Health in

Jordan

Hamed Bakir

Regional Technical Focal Point on Climate Change

and Health

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1. ENDORSES the framework for health sector action in Member States to protect health from climate change;

2. URGES Member states to:

2.1 Implement the framework for health sector action to protecthealth from climate change;

2.2 Establish an effective high level coordination mechanism tostrengthen institutional capacity to protect health from climatechange;

2.3 Establish an early warning capacity for climate sensitive diseases by integrating information on environmental change in the existing health information systems;

Resolution EM/RC55/R.8,

October 2008 on

Climate Change and Health

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1. Place public health 1. Place public health

security at the centre security at the centre

of national and of national and

regional action on regional action on

climate changeclimate change

2. Implement 2. Implement

adaptation strategies adaptation strategies

at local and national at local and national

levels to minimize levels to minimize

impacts on impacts on

populationspopulations’’ healthhealth

3. Support healthy 3. Support healthy

development development

strategies in other strategies in other

sectors to promote sectors to promote

health and mitigate health and mitigate

climate changeclimate change

4. Strengthen the 4. Strengthen the

institutional capacity institutional capacity

of the public health of the public health

sector for its response sector for its response

and leadership and leadership

WHO/CEHA support to Health

and Climate Change in Jordan

• The MDG_F Programme on adaptation to protect health

from climate change:

– Water safety management

– Policy on water requirements for health

– National adaptation strategy, plan, project and early warning to

protecting health from climate change

• The GEF project for piloting adaptation to protect health

from climate change:

– National system for wastewater use safety management

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Joint Programme on Adaptation

to Climate Change to Sustain

Jordan’s MDG Achievement

• Outcome 1: Sustained access to improved water supply sources

• Outcome 2: Strengthened adaptive capacity for health protection

and food security

• UN Partners: UNDP, FAO, UNESCO and WHO/CEHA

• Total Budget: US$ 4,000,000

• WHO/CEHA Budget: US$ 1,600,000

Water Safety Management

Upgrade national drinking water quality (DWQ) system:

– System assessment completed

– Revised DWQ standards under review by committees

– Preventative DWQMS under review with stakeholders

Develop and implement 5 demonstration water safety plans

– Five sites are selected by WAJ and Water suppliers

– Technical support and training will be provided

Training programme on DWQ management

– Training assessment, material and programme completed

– Training with be offered May- Oct 2011

Strengthen MoH’s DWQ laboratory networks

– Critical equipment was provided 2010; additional equipment in 2011

Policy on Water Requirements

for Health

Identify minimum household water security requirements for

health protection

– Methodology development starts April 2011

– Assessments surveys planned 2011

National policy and issue legislative policy instruments on

minimum water requirements for health:

– Policy and legislative instruments planned 2012

Adaptation measures,

by health sector & other sectors,

to protect health from

climate change are institutionalized

• Conduct an assessment of health vulnerability to climate change

• Screen and prioritize adaptation strategies, by the health sector and other sector to protect health from climate change:

• Prevention and protection

• Health care system preparedness

• Develop adaptation plan of action to protect health from the negative effects of climate change:

• Prevention and protection

• Health care system preparedness

• Design adaptation projects to protect health from identified high risk environmental conditions induced by climate change

• Establish a national early warning system to monitor and assess health impacts of climate change

Six components corresponding to the climate sensitive health

issues:

• Water-borne and food-borne disease and climate change

• Vector diseases and climate change

• Nutrition and climate change

• Air-borne disease and climate change

• Health impacts of heat waves

• Occupational health and climate change

National Adaptation Strategy and

Plan of Action on

Health and Climate Change

Managing the Development of

National Strategy and Plan of Action

• Ensure government (MOH) ownership and leadership.

• Internalize the climate change considerations within MoH

existing programmes.

• Support MoH to build the capacity of MOH relevant

programs.

• Enhance sustainability of the processes within the existing

programs of the MOH.

National Strategy Team:

– Coordination Team (leader Dr. Bassam Hijjawi)

– Six technical Teams:

• (Water-borne and food-borne disease; Nutrition; Air-borne

disease; Occupational health; Health impacts of heat waves;

Vector diseases)

Steering Committee: (Coordination group; Leaders of the Technical Teams;

WHO/CEHA)

Joint Project Committee: (MoH; WHO/CEHA; WHO Representative)

• Duration: six month starting April 2011

Implementation and supervision of

development of the National Strategy

Activities and Timeline

Activity Timeline

Capacity building and planning workshop March 2011

Concluding Agreements and Commissioning of

Work

3rd week March 2011

National Inception workshop to Launch the

Strategy Process

4th week March 2011

Development of National Strategy April – October 2011

Final National Workshop and Launch of the

Adaptation Strategy on Health and Climate Change

November 2011

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WHO support and institutional

arrangements with MoH

• WHO support :

– Cost of Development of the National by the National Strategy

(data collection, local expenses, stakeholders meetings, national

consultations, dissemination, reporting and documentation,

technical services…etc) through:

– APW with coordination team

– APWs with 6 technical teams

– Capacity building support

– Technical assistance to the National Strategy Team that is not

covered in the development cost.

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