Our theory of change describes how our interventions will lead to:
- greater health workforce resilience to address the health impacts of the climate crisis,
- greater community resilience to climate-related health threats and
- policies and systems that support the scale-up of effective health workforce interventions
Context
Activities
- Formative research on health system, workforce & community preparedness & practices on health impacts of climate crisis
- Participatory action research to co-create interventions, evaluate and learn
- Research uptake and communications
- Capacity strengthening
- Community engagement and involvement
Outputs
- Evidence on health workforce, health systems & community responses to health impacts of climate crisis to inform intervention design
- Pilot interventions co-created that are context sensitive and timely
- In-depth case studies of intervention implementation and outcomes
- Evidence-based scalable, feasible, acceptable and costed interventions
- Capacity of communities, health systems stakeholders & research teams built in study settings to produce, adapt and use evidence
Outcomes
- Increased knowledge and awareness of community related to health impacts of climate crisis
- Improved knowledge, skills and practice of health workforce to identify and respond to health impacts of climate crisis
- Local health plans, guidance, practices and resources to support health workers to address the health impacts of climate crisis
Impact
- Greater health workforce resilience to address the health impacts of the climate crisis
- Greater community resilience to climate related health threats
- Policies and systems that support the scale-up of effective health workforce interventions
Assumptions
- Collaborative relationships built with health workforce, communities, partners, funders, governance & other stakeholders
- Safe access to research sites and timely approval of research ethics
- Trusting relationships built with health workforce and limited staff turnover
- Contexts provide sufficient stability for research questions to be tested, eg no major crises, health facilities remain open etc
- Sufficient funds and human resources in place to deliver interventions
- Ministries of Health in Nepal and Zimbabwe remain committed to addressing health impacts of climate crisis