2019 wegerdt health nap expo tuesday technical session 0409

1. GCF sectoral dialogues
Health and Well-being
Johannah “Yoyo”Wegerdt
Health andWell-being Specialist,
Green Climate Fund,GCF
April 2019
NAP Expo

2. Pacific Programming Overview
Session
Goals
Gain input to GCF Health and
Well-being Sector Strategy
and Guidelines;
Recommend key
elements that should
be considered for GCF
health and well-being
projects.
Understand the challenges
and barriers to developing
good health and well-being
projects
Learn from experience!

3. 8 Strategic Results Areas
Impact potential
Paradigm shift potential
Sustainable development potential
Country ownership
Efficiency & effectiveness
Responsive to needs of recipients
Focused on Investment Criteria

4. Pacific Programming Overview
– Health investment is underserved
– Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)
– Emission reduction strategies in relation to health in NDC (i.e. SLCP)
– Cities (mega-cities) systems approach to include health and well-being
In mitigation
GCF and climate finance

5. Source: Frumkin & Haines 2019. Annual
Review of Public Health Global
Environmental Change and
Noncommunicable Disease Risks. 40:
261-282
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf
/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-040218-
043706

6. Population health Health care

7. Building climate resilient health systems

8. Pacific Programming Overview
Need to:
1. Strengthening the development and
availability of evidence,
2. Building the data and reducing knowledge
gaps, and inform relevant policies.
Challenge: Maximizing synergies across sectors
– need indicators to ensure that health
considerations are integrated into their
adaptation planning to avoid maladaptation.

9. Pacific Programming Overview
Adaptation
gaps for
health
Adaptative
health
systems
Climate proofing
health systems;
infrastructure
Investing in capacity
building and
preparedness for
health
Integration of health
into broader policy
frameworks: “health
in all policies”
Resilience
Integrated EWS/HIS
Monitoring and
knowledge
platforms
Health
determining
sectors
i.e. Agriculture and
water interventions
to avoid
malnutrition
i.e. Mitigation and
air pollution

10. Our challenge
- Pursuit of impact … with a need
to prioritize.

11. Pacific Programming Overview
Johannah “Yoyo”Wegerdt, Health andWell-being Specialist,GCF
Vositha Wijenayake, Executive Director SLYCANTrust , Sri
Lanka
Saori Kitabatake,WHO, Division of PacificTechnical
Support inWHO office in Suva, Fiji.
Seonmi Choi, Regional Environmental and Climate Change
Advisor, UNICEF
Kristie L. Ebi , Director, Center for Health and the Global
Environment (CHanGE), University ofWashington

12. Problems:
Question:
How do we bring awareness and link in health with other
sectors
Health benefits can
come from sectors
other than health.
Problem is, the other
sectors are not
sufficiently thinking
about health
(co)benefits.
Question:
What are the barriers and how can we overcome them?
There is a gap
between NDCs and
climate projects
addressing health
challenges.
Question:
What needs to happen to strengthen climate change and
health from NCDs to project implementation?
What is a paradigm shift for health?
Health sector is
thinking of small
solutions.

13. Pacific Programming Overview
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