EQUINET Regional meeting May 23 and 24 Nairobi on Strategies for tackling commercial determinants of health and for urban wellbeing in ESA- read the meeting report on the website
This EQUINET regional meeting, convened by TARSC, gathered people from institutions involved in work in ESA on urban health and health impact assessment HIA. It was held on May 23rd and 24th 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya. It used a mix of presentation, discussion and participatory processes to:
1. Share and review experience and evidence from both urban health work and HIA in ESA on the laws, policies, systems, features, measures and tools that positively impact on health and that make linkages across economic, social, health and ecosystem wellbeing, including to respond to climate change.
2. Identify the implications for policy and practice at national, regional and global level.
3. Identify a theory of change and strategies to advance, support and scale-up in ESA the promising policies, practices and tools identified in the meeting.
4. Identify issues from the meeting to communicate to policy, technical and wider audiences in and beyond the region on improving health (equity) and climate adaptation in urbanisation and in economic/ commercial activity in ESA.
See the meeting report under EQUINET publications on this site and email admin [at] equinetafrica.org for further information.COURSE COMPLETED! EQUINET Online skills course on Health Impact Assessment February to June 2024
Between February 20th and June 4th 2024 EQUINET in association with regional and international partners convened an online course in 12 sessions to build capacities on health impact assessment (HIA). The course built understanding of the theoretical basis of HIA, and knowledge of the methods, evidence, analysis in an HIA, of reporting of and engagement on HIA, and implementation and monitoring of proposed actions. It provided mentored guidance of participant HIA practical work, using real HIA case studies, and discuss implementation issues and strategies for scaling up and integrating HIA in law and practice in east and southern Africa. If you are interested in the course or future sessions please contact the EQUINET secretariat.
EQUINET Webinars on Climate justice and health equity
Climate-related challenges affect every experience and dimension of health equity in the region. EQUINET invites you to explore this with us in a series of cross-cutting webinars in the coming months. The videos of the sessions are available on the EQUINET site as well as a brief of key points arising from each session in the online EQUINET bibliography. There are also two rapid reviews on climate and health systems and on climate financing and health on the EQUINET website.
Watch the video for the webinar on climate justice and extractives in east and Southern Africa on Wednesday February 28th 2024
The fifth in EQUINET's series on health equity and climate justice in east and southern Africa on Wednesday, 28th February 2024 was hosted by SATUCC and focused on climate justice and health equity in the extractive sector. We heard inputs from expertise in the region working on environmental and climate law, on extractives and a just transition; and on experiences and actions from a trade union lens. The session will explore the evidence of impacts on health and climate of the extractive sector, and proposed legal, policy, advocacy and other actions at local, national and regional level and in global engagement. To watch the session please visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vvGnvDWBI8 and read the brief on the website publications page
See the video for the webinar on climate justice and trade in east and Southern Africa on December 6th 2023
The fourth webinar session was on Climate Justice and trade systems hosted by SEATINI in EQUINET. The webinar focused on how climate intersects with trade systems that impact on health. We heard from speakers with experience on these issues at community/local level, at national level and at global level. If you missed it please visit the link here to watch the session - great presentations and discussion!. You will also find a brief on the deliberations on the EQUINET publications page.
The first webinar on how climate justice intersects with protection of the right to health, hosted by the Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) was successfully held in July with three interesting speakkers from local/national, regionaland global level and participant views and comments. If you missed it you can watch the session at this link.
The second webinar session on Climate Justice and Urban food and waste management systems was held on Tuesday 29th August hosted by Innovations for Development in EQUINET. The webinar focused on how climate intersects with urban food systens and waste management systems, and their link to water, energy and green spaces. Speakers presented experience on these issues at community/local level, at national level and at global level. The full webinar can be viewed at this link
The third webinar session on Climate Justice and primary health care systems was held on Wednesday 25th October hosted by REACH Trust Malawi and IWG in EQUINET. The webinar focused on how climate intersects with equity oriented primary health care systems. Speakers presented experience on these issues at community/local level, at national level and at global level. The full webinar can be viewed at this link
Expanding promising practice on urban health and wellbeing
EQUINET is supporting a community of practice on promising practice for sustained urban and periurban wellbeing in east and southern Africa to share and review evidence on practice features that could be scaled up across countries. Visit the analytic framework that the community of practice is working with, see the reports of the regional meetings. We On this website you can read new reports published in 2024 on holistic case studies on urban health. Please contact us if you are interested in this area of work and have interesting experience, tools and practice to share.