This study report explores the readiness study on advancing and scaling up sexual reproductive health rights and family planning for climate adaptation and resilience in Uganda. The study aimed at the generation of recommendations and actions for influencing policy and practice for institutionalization and scale up of SRHR/FP into climate actions in Uganda at various scales i.e., national, sub national, local and community.
Year: 2024
Source: Regenerate Africa
Gender equality is a fundamental human right and an integral part of holistic social and economic growth and development. This noble goal can be achieved through acknowledging the intricate relationship between gender equality, sexual and reproductive health and rights, family planning, health and climate change, the most significant economic and social threat of this century. According to the 2023 Population and Vulnerability report by the Population Institute, Uganda is the 13th amongst the 80 most vulnerable nations in the world facing climate-induced events. They include, but are not limited to, prolonged droughts, floods, landslides, wind storms, hail storms and lightning, whose severity and frequency has increased over the past 10 years. These events are a result of, amongst other things, the unplanned production and consumption patterns occasioned by the demands of a very fast-growing population whose livelihood depends on the climate sensitive sectors. The country is experiencing one of the most rapid population growth rates in the world projected to rise from 48.6 million to date to over 90 million in the next 25 years.
Year: 2023
Source: Regenerate Africa
MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience is implementing an integrated, multisectoral population, health, and environment (PHE) approach to address complex, interconnected challenges in Tanzania while strengthening health resilience. Three specific approaches in this PHE model include: Model Household/Boma Initiative, First-Time Parents program, and Community Conservation Microfinance Groups. Learn more about these approaches in the report.
Year: 2023
Source: MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience
The vision of the Margaret Pyke Trust is a future without barriers to family planning, in a climate resilient world with healthy ecosystems. As a global non-governmental organization embedded in the human health, biodiversity and climate sectors, one of their activities is working in partnership with other environmental conservation and health organizations to develop projects which simultaneously improve sexual and reproductive health services, provide alternative and sustainable livelihoods, and support the conservation of biodiversity. This year, they set a challenge of starting the process of creating new partnerships between health NGOs and Conserve Global. Conserve Global’s mission is to expand Africa’s conservation footprint and nature-based economy by supporting the establishment of community-initiated conservancies in the buffer zones adjacent to national parks.
In this report, we set out why we think the Population Health and Environment (PHE) approach could be appropriate for Conserve Global’s mission and the communities it works with and for, and identify two potential new partners to deliver PHE across its focal landscapes.
Year: 2023
Source: Margaret Pyke Trust
At the Women Deliver 2023 Conference (WD2023), the intersection of girls and women and the climate crisis was a cross-cutting issue recognized as one of the biggest challenges to gender equality globally. Many critical topics and calls-to-action were raised, and we have identified three main themes:
Year: 2023
Source: Women Deliver
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The report brings together population, gender, and reproductive health indicators for the 80 most vulnerable countries in the world, as ranked by the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative. It describes global trends in population growth and climate change vulnerability. And it highlights five countries around the world where the convergence of these trends creates significant challenges for resilience and adaptation over the long term.
However, community efforts in these countries demonstrate innovative policy and program approaches that advance gender equity, reproductive health and rights, and climate change adaptation in an integrated fashion. Scaling up such efforts offers significant untapped opportunity to strengthen both near-term and long-term prospects for adaptation and resilience.
Year: 2023
Source: Population Institute
This document provides activity reports from some of the BUILD project’s recent engagement on the integration of health into climate change action and discourse.
Year: 2023
Source: BUILD Project
This strategic plan outlines a vision for Uganda’s National PHE Network, representing the needs of not just Network member organizations but also those of the wider stakeholder community. It advances the multisectoral integrated PHE approach and offers an opportunity to achieve sustainable development by 2040.
Year: 2021
Source: National Population Council
This document outlines Kenya’s guidelines for advancing the multisectoral integrated Population, Health, and Environment approach as an opportunity for sustainable development.
Source: National Council for Population and Development
The Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health hosted gender and climate expert Sono Aibe for a webinar on the topic of reproductive health, gender equity, and climate change in honor of Earth Day 2023. During the webinar, Sono spoke about important dynamics involved in the fight against climate change, and how different populations may be affected.
Year: 2023
Source: Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health
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