Second In-Person Meeting of the CSHS Collaborative

Event Announcement

The Second In-Person Meeting of the CSHS Collaborative

October 5-9, Manama, Bahrain

The JLN Collaborative on Climate Smart Health Systems will hold its second full-collaborative in-person meeting in Manama, Bahrain, from October 5-9, 2025. At the Second In-Person meeting, members will provide feedback and finalize the knowledge products that have been developed over the previous year (under the three workstreams of Governance, Financing, and Data and Accountability) and identify products for co-production in Year 2 of the collaborative, under the remaining three workstreams of Multisectoral Action, Engaging Communities, and Service Delivery Models.

The Governance workstream has developed a Climate and Health Governance Guideline that covers policies, regulations, leadership, and stakeholder coordination. The Financing workstream has drafted two knowledge products: Making the Case for Investment in Climate and Health, which outlines key messages on health impacts and investment benefits, and a Repository on Public Financial Management for Climate and Health that compiles resources for climate-smart health financing. The Data and Accountability workstream has drafted a Data Toolkit on common data integration and visualization challenges, as well as two repositories, with the first focusing on Health Facility Infrastructure and the second focusing on Health Worker Tools.

By fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange among policymakers, the CSHS Collaborative aims to strengthen governments’ capacity to build climate-smart health systems and address the challenges posed by climate change.  Members of the collaborative have previously convened at the Launch meeting of the collaborative in February 2024 (Washington, DC, USA) and at the First Author’s Workshop in October 2024 (New Delhi, India).

The inaugural in-person meeting was attended by 20 countries from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and South America. The primary goals of the initial in-person meeting of the JLN CSHS Collaborative were to initiate the collaborative, identify priority technical areas and key themes, share existing efforts, tools, and successes, understand and document expectations for collaborative activities, and jointly outline potential knowledge products that could be co-produced throughout the two-year collaborative period. The meeting facilitated the sharing of experiences and lessons learned regarding climate change response and healthcare system resilience. During the launch meeting, participants identified the six workstreams for focus by the collaborative and agreed to collaboratively co-develop knowledge products in 2024-2025 under the first three workstreams of Governance, Financing and Data and Accountability.

The First Author’s Workshop in New Delhi, India, from October 7-11, 2024, brought together a select group of participants from 21 member countries to share their practical experiences and implementation knowledge. Attendees discussed the key components and country examples for inclusion in the Year 1 knowledge products and shared their interest in co-authoring and contributing content for specific sections in each knowledge product. The workshop concluded with working outlines for the knowledge products for further virtual deliberation.