Individual Event – The 5th Clim-Health Africa Meeting in Senegal
The 5th Clim-Health Africa meeting will be held from September 24-26, 2024, in Dakar, Senegal. This event will bring together over 80 delegates, including representatives from Ministries of Health, climate change experts, regional and global partners, and civil society organizations. The meeting will provide a platform for discussions and collaborations to address Climate change and health issues in Africa, including the provision of a master class on climate diplomacy and negociations to African experts in climate and health and the work on climate change and health indicators for measuring progress achieved from the implementation of the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA). Participants will also work on finalizing Clim-Health Africa’s strategic work plan for the period 2025-2030.
Clim-Health Africa, established in 2013, is a multi-stakeholder initiative bringing together Pan-African technical institutes and international partners to guide and strengthen the public health resilience of African countries and communities. Clim-Health Africa provides scientific leadership, capacity building, research, and policy support to help inform and support the health sector across Africa in moving from the current reactive mode to a proactive mode. Clim-Health Africa serves as the principal user-interface mechanism for engaging, guiding, and setting standards for the health community to access and use climate services in Africa. It intends to serve as a virtual hub, where expertise is shared in order to develop the capacity of African health and climate communities, institutions, practitioners and partners to understand and integrate climate change challenges into policy, socio-economics, planning and programming.
Clim-Health Africa specific objectives are:
- Encourage collective and inter-sectoral action on Climate Change and Health (CCH) within national governments and supporting institutions;
- Increase the amount of resources (human, financial, technical) available for CCH;
- Intensify communication and advocacy efforts on CCH in Africa
More details will be announced on this website soon.