Active Collaborative: Climate Smart Health Systems Collaborative

Active Collaborative : Climate-Smart Health Systems

Purpose

The Climate-Smart Health Systems Collaborative supports countries in strengthening their ability to adapt health systems to climate change by fostering peer-to-peer learning, sharing practical implementation knowledge, and co-producing solutions to common challenges in climate and health. It brings together practitioners to build capacity in climate adaptation, resilience, and mitigation as part of broader efforts to advance Universal Health Coverage.

Expected Outcomes

The collaborative will generate cross-country knowledge exchanges, webinars, and co-created practical tools—including governance guides, financing resources, and data-and-accountability tools — to help countries design and implement climate-smart health systems.

21 Participating Member Countries and 1 observer country (Kenya)

🇧🇭 Bahrain, 🇧🇿 Belize 🇧🇹 Bhutan, 🇨🇴 Colombia, 🇪🇬 Egypt, 🇪🇹 Ethiopia, 🇫🇯 Fiji 🇮🇳 India, 🇮🇩 Indonesia, 🇱🇦 Lao PDR, 🇲🇾 Malaysia, 🇲🇳 Mongolia, 🇲🇦 Morocco, 🇳🇬 Nigeria, 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea, 🇵🇪 Peru, 🇱🇨 Saint Lucia, 🇸🇹 Sao Tome and Principe, 🇸🇳 Senegal, 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates, 🇻🇳 Vietnam, 🇰🇪 Kenya

Progress

The collaborative launched with an in-person meeting in February 2024, where participants identified priority technical areas and themes, shared existing tools and successes, and jointly outlined potential knowledge products for co-production.
From October 7–11, 2024, the Collaborative held its first Author’s Workshop in New Delhi, India, where participants refined the components and country examples to be included in the initial set of knowledge products.
The group convened again in Manama, Bahrain, from October 5–9, 2025, to review and finalize the Year 1 knowledge products and to set priorities for Year 2 under the multisectoral action, community engagement, and service delivery workstreams. Participants engaged in a site visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain’s Halat Bu Maher Health Primary Health Care Centre where participants learned how primary health centers integrate renewable energy, implement green building standards, and use a national digital health information system for service delivery.

For more information: [email protected]

Technical Facilitators:

World Bank

Tamer Rabie, Global Program Lead, Climate-Health Program, World Bank

Stephen Dorey, Senior Health Specialist, World Bank

Angie Bone , Associate Professor of Practice, Planetary Health, Monash Sustainability Institute

Zara Shubber Senior Health Specialist, World Bank

Kathryn Bowen , Professor of Environment, Climate & Global Health, University of Melbourne

Moritz Piatti, Senior Health Economist, World Bank

Jessica Flannery , Senior Climate Change and Health Specialist, World Bank

Elizabeth Mitgang , Health Specialist, World Bank

Lander Bosch , Health Economist, World Bank

Kate Ramsey , Research Lead, Scope Impact

Arthur Wyns , Research Fellow, University of Melbourne

Jennifer Leigh , Consultant, World Bank

Aditi Nigam , Coordinator for the CSHS Collaborative, World Bank

Amna Silim , Consultant, World Bank

Omnia El Omrani , Consultant, World Bank

Smiti Mathur , Consultant, World Bank

Tanvi Gupta , Consultant, World Bank

Mahlet Gizaw , JLN Health Specialist, , World Bank

Somil Nagpal , Lead Health Specialist, , World Bank

Technical facilitation for this collaborative is provided by the Global Climate and Health Program at the World Bank Group. This collaborative benefits from financial support provided by the Government of Japan through the Policy and Human Resource Development (PHRD) trust fund at the World Bank, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) - Government of the United Kingdom, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) - Government of Australia through the Advance UHC trust fund, Rockefeller Foundation and the Gates Foundation.

Tools and Resources

- The Guideline for Climate-Health Governance at the Country Level
- Making the Case for Investment in Climate and Health
- Knowledge Repository: Public Financial Management (PFM) for Climate-Smart Health Systems
- Evidence to Action: A Practical Guide to Climate-Health Data Integration
- Repository of Resilient Health Facility Tools
- Health Worker Climate-Health Tools Repository