2025 HIA COURSE CALL NOW OPEN! EQUINET Online skills course on Health Impact Assessment April to July 2025
EQUINET through TARSC, with SATUCC, TalkAB[M]R, Nossal Institute of Global Health, C Dora is convening online training in April to July 2025 that include mentored case study work to build HIA capacities in different actors in ESA countries. Applicants for the call should preferably be from an ESA country from state, non- state, labour, professional or academic institutions, and have roles in or an intention to implement HIA. We encourage applicants to apply as a team of up to 4 people, desirably in the same geographical location, with a lead/co-ordinator. We will also consider individual applicants, and if selected may include them within the teams for their country/case study issue. We will consider applicants/teams from outside ESA if their work is relevant to the region or as observers should they wish to initiate future courses.Applicants for the call are asked to email applications to admin [at] equinetafrica.org (admin [at] equinetafrica.org) before 5pm Southern Africa time February 4th 2025. See further information and guidance for applications on the GRANTS page on this website and in the call brief.
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.
See the video and brief from the webinar on climate justice and land and agroeconomic systems and pandemics in east and Southern Africa held on Thursday 28th November 2024
The sixth in EQUINET's series on health equity and climate justice in east and southern Africa hosted by SEATINI focused on climate justice and health equity in agro-ecology and pandemics in the region. It was held in November, 2024. The webinar interrogated the relationships between climate, land rights and agroecology and the link to pandemicsat and health at local, national and global levels and suggested actions to be taken to mitigate the impacts. To watch the session please visit https://youtu.be/KcMreW9rGak and read the brief on the EQUINET website publications page.
See the videos for the previous webinars on various aspects of climate justice and health equity in east and Southern Africa
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
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.
EQUINET Regional meeting May 23 and 24, 2024 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 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; identify the implications for policy and practice at national, regional and global level and recommendations for 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.
