Gender action plan for SAP030: Strengthening Climate Resilience of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) Health System

Strengthening Climate Resilience of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) Health System

Gender assessment for SAP030: Strengthening Climate Resilience of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) Health System

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Climate change impacts Lao PDR’s health sector by triggering more frequent and intense extreme weather events that damage health facility infrastructure – including water, sanitation, and hygiene services – and by creating conditions that increase the incidence of disease. With current adaptation gaps, Lao PDR will continue to suffer socioeconomically as climate and health challenges exacerbate each other. The interplay between health and climate issues means that there is a great need for more holistic climate-health solutions that can deliver results on both fronts and address the root causes of the issues they face. 

Save the Children Australia aims to enhance the climate resilience of the Lao PDR health system and strengthen community capacity to manage current and anticipated health impacts resulting from climate change. This will be achieved through multiple approaches, including strengthening health system leadership and governance at national and subnational levels, expanding health facility access to climate information and key WASH indicators to help track, prepare for, and manage climate-related risks to health, and strengthening health system capacity in 25 climate-vulnerable rural districts. The project will work directly with the Laotian health system and affected communities to address knowledge, capacity, and resource barriers, so Laotians can transform their own health and work toward climate-resilient development.

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An aim to achieve a quantifiable outcome within a given time-frame, set by an institution such as a national government.

Policy instruments are techniques or tools used by governing authorities to promote certain policies in order to achieve predetermined goals. Put simply, instruments are how a government tries to achieve its goals, with this taxonomy being focused on national policy instruments.

Risk is the potential for adverse consequences resulting from the dynamic interplay between (climate-related) hazards, exposure, and vulnerability of affected human or ecological systems.

Groups  of people who are adversely affected by climate change or the response to it

A set of principles, processes, and practices that build economic and political power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy.

Renewable energy means all forms of energy produced from renewable sources in a sustainable manner.

Fossil fuel is a generic term for non-renewable energy sources such as coal, fossil gas, and oil (including crude oil, and petroleum products), that can be used for electricity and heat generation. Fossil fuels are hydrocarbons formed from pressurised and heated organic material buried over millions of years.

Molecules in the atmosphere that play a key role in the greenhouse effect by trapping heat radiating from Earth’s surface.

Area of the economy in which actors engage in identical or related activities.

In human systems, the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate change and its effects, in order to moderate harm, increase resilience or exploit beneficial opportunities. In natural systems, the process of adjustment to actual climate change and its effects; human intervention may facilitate adjustment to expected climate change and its effects.

The management and allocation of funds, assets and investments to meet various objectives

Social and cultural groups that share collective ancestral ties to the lands and natural resources where they live, occupy or from which they have been displaced

People with different national or cultural traditions from the dominant population

Either money or something of monetary value is transferred between two or more organisations, people or countries.

Activities that involve planning, designing and building infrastructure, residential, and commercial structures.

This sector includes firms and individuals offering specialised expertise in fields such as law, accounting, consulting, science and engineering.

Conditions that enhance the feasibility of adaptation options. Enabling conditions include finance, technological innovation, strengthening policy instruments, institutional capacity, multi-level governance and changes in human behaviour and lifestyles.

An integrated system of hazard monitoring, forecasting and prediction, that enables individuals, communities, governments, businesses and others to take timely action to reduce disaster risks in advance of hazardous events.

Financial actors and resources that are primarily directed towards climate change mitigation, adaptation and compensation.

Dedicated pool of financial resources for climate-related projects.

This sector provides medical services, manufactures medical equipment, and develops pharmaceuticals to maintain and improve health.

Actions to adapt human health, healthcare systems and well-being to climate change.

Actions or measures to adapt freshwater, coastal and marine systems to climate change.

woman and genders outside of the gender binary

People whose health, both mental and physical, makes them more vulnerable to the effects of climate change

Actions or measures to adapt freshwater systems to climate change.

Activities of government agencies and institutions that provide public services, enforce laws and manage public resources.

The release of heat-trapping gases, primarily from human activities such as burning fossil fuels, agriculture and industry.

Social inclusion is the process of improving the terms on which individuals and groups take part in society—improving the ability, opportunity, and dignity of those disadvantaged on the basis of their identity.

Gender action plan for SAP030: Strengthening Climate Resilience of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) Health System

Policy instrument

Impacted group

Just transition

Greenhouse gas

Economic sector

Adaptation/resilience

Finance