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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$7,500,000 CAD
- 2011 to 2012: $7,500,000 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Botswana
Côte d'Ivoire
Kenya
Mauritania
South Africa
Tanzania
Zimbabwe
Funding Period: 2011 to 2012
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
Canada provided $7.5 million to the International Development Research Centre's (IDRC) Ecosystems and Human Health Program to support health vulnerabilities reduction and increased resilience against vector-borne disease risks under climate change conditions in Africa. The initiative used a multi-pronged approach to explore how to improve disease control strategies and tools, and increase the capacity to generate, interpret, and use new knowledge to inform policies and practices.
Results/Expected Outcomes
Canada’s contribution to this project supported research to assist African countries
in developing adaptation policies and disease control programs to anticipate, prevent,
and reduce vector-borne disease risks. The initiative is expected to train African
researchers to build national capacity to deal with climate change and related public
health threats.
Five research projects have been selected for funding under this
initiative. These projects worked to:
- assess the impact of social and environmental determinants and climate change
on malaria and schistosomiasis in Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe
- develop/improve appropriate tools and coping strategies to the aggravating
effects of climate change on the transmission of vector-borne diseases, especially
malaria and schistosomiasis diseases in the towns of Korhogo (Côte d'Ivoire)
and Kaédides (Mauritania)
- look at the impact of expanding agricultural development, climate change,
and tsetse fly distribution while focusing on marginalised people in remote
areas
- address the potential effect of climate change on diseases such as malaria
and Rift Valley Fever in Kenya
- look into climate and land use changes effects on the Maasai population.