Proposal to Support the Communication of Clim-HEALTH Africa Network

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The World Health Organization (WHO) is a public international organization, consisting of 194 Member States, and a Specialized Agency of the United Nations with the mandate to act as the directing and coordinating authority on international health work. As such, WHO is dependent on the budgetary and extra-budgetary contributions it receives for the implementation of its activities. Bidders are, therefore, requested to propose the best and most cost-effective solution to meet WHO requirements, while ensuring a high level of service.

Clim- HEALTH Africa Network was established in 2013 with involvement of 14 founding member institutions, as a multi-stakeholder initiative bringing together Pan-African technical institutes and international partners from developing countries, with aim of strengthening the public health resilience of African countries and communities to climate change and weather variability.  Since its establishment Clim-Health Africa provides scientific leadership, capacity building, research, and policy support to help and inform health sector across Africa move from the current reactive to a proactive mode of public health adaptation.to climate change. Furthermore, Clim-Health Africa paving the road for user-interface mechanism for engaging, guiding, and setting standards for the health community to access and use climate services in Africa.

Media and communications activities will contribute toward this overarching goal, through heightening awareness and knowledge among the network members institutions, partners and  Member States. Furthermore, generate best practice lessons from countries currently mainstreamed climate change  to their health programmes and  implementing  activities which can help to facilitate   scaling up  among the member states.

Specific communications objectives include:

• Maximize the impact of AFRO work on climate change and health, Clim- HEALTH Africa Network work  and secure positive communication coverage  including updating  the web site to avail  the up-to-date work of WHO  and the network on climate change and health;
• Raise awareness among the health community, researchers and decision makers on impact of  weather variability and climate change  on health;  and  help in developing proactive  health  adaption;
• Share successes and lessons learned from implementation of interventions  addressing  impact of weather variability  and climate change  on health in African  countries and beyond  in order to promote knowledge sharing and information exchange;
• Develop and disseminate information, and outreach materials including Clim- HEALTH Africa Network work website and news letter.

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