أ) أهداف التعهد
Georgia faces increasingly severe climate-related risks, including heat, floods, and droughts. The Country has made progress in improving the health of its population, particularly over the past decade by implementing a number of state-based reforms in the health sector to ensure universal access to medical services. However, special attention should be paid to the impact of climate change on human health. As the consequences of climate change on people’s health worsen day by day. The frequency of extreme daily temperatures and heat waves has increased in Georgia, leading to immediate health concerns such increased incidence of heat stroke, heat exhaustion, heat cramps and skin rash; aggravation of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, especially among the elderly; increase in incidence of vector- and waterborne diseases.
Climate-related risks, exacerbate the existing situations of vulnerability and fosters the emergence of health and place significant burdens on vulnerable communities.
Main Objective: Build resilience of the communities to the climate induced extreme events
Specific objectives:
- Reduce climate change consequences on Human Health
- Carry out advocacy work to include findings of the Climate and Health Risk Assessment into the National Strategies, Policies or plans.
ب) خطة العمل:
Activities to achieve specific objective 1:
- Strengthen awareness and outreach:
- Launch public awareness campaigns and educational sessions tailored to climate hazards such as heatwaves and etc;
- Engage communities in understanding health risks and adopting risk-reducing behaviors, emphasizing behavioral change, collective responsibility, and locally appropriate knowledge dissemination.
- Empower communities through educational-informational sessions:
- Climate changes impact on health: preparedness and response
- Conduct First Aid training.
- Conduct PSS training.
- Conduct sessions on Communicable and non-communicable as well as water-borne diseases.
- Advance mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS):
- Explore the mental health impacts of climate change through community dialogue and assessments.
- Develop community-centered MHPSS materials and activities tailored to climate stressors such as displacement, heat stress, and uncertainty.
Activities to achieve specific objective 2:
- Conduct and apply climate and health risk assessment:
- Use findings to guide the selection of communities for further action and to design relevant interventions, ensuring evidence-based planning.
ج) مؤشرات قياس التقدم المحرز
- Number of people reached through awareness, educational sessions and risk communication efforts.
- Number of advocacy meetings with stakeholders
د) الآثار المترتبة على الموارد:
The pledge implementation will rely on a diversified support strategy including:
- Domestic resources (where available).
- Support from Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement partners.
- External Donor funding.
We will explore potential collaboration with Governmental and non-governmental actors to ensure sustainability of the actions.