Consultant – Climate Sensitive Health
Organization: World Health Organization (WHO)
Year: 2024
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical support to the WHO ACE office in the Western Pacific Region in identifying health risks associated with climate change, considering factors such as extreme weather events, changing vector habitats, and alterations in disease transmission patterns and prepare a technical report on priority CSH outcomes for the WHO WPR and pilot possible risk models to forecast potential disease outbreaks under different climate scenarios.
This consultancy will serve to inform a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Implementation Plan of climate-health activities in the Western Pacific Region. The M&E plan will track the interplay between climate and health and assess the effectiveness of interventions in the Western Pacific Region as recommended by the Technical Advisory Group on Climate Change, the Environment and Health (CCE TAG) under Pillar 3: Monitoring the impact of climate change and the environment (hereafter noted as CCE) on health; to provide timely, accurate and strategic information to inform decision-making, guide advocacy, drive action, and track impacts and success of interventions.