This presentation was delivered at the the Working Group on Health on Climate Change Meeting held in Bonn on 11 September 2019 by Dr. Rosemary Kumwenda, UNDP EECA Team Leader for HIV Health and Development and SPHS Coordinator, and Natalia Olofinskaya, Regional Climate Change Specialist of UNDP Istanbul Regional Hub

1. UNDP Offer on
Climate Change & Health
Rosemary Kumwenda, Regional HIV/Health Team Leader
Natalia Olofinskaya, Regional Climate Change Specialist
UNDP Istanbul Regional Hub
11 September, 2019

2. UNDP Strategic Plan and Signature solutions
➢ Signature solution 1: Keeping people out of poverty.
➢ Signature solution 2: Strengthen effective, inclusive and
accountable governance
➢ Signature solution 3: Enhance national prevention and recovery
capacities for resilient societies
➢ Signature solution 4: Promote nature-based solutions for a
sustainable planet
➢ Signature solution 5: Close the energy gap
➢ Signature solution 6: Strengthen gender equality and the
empowerment of women and girls

3. HIV, Health and Development (HHD) Service Offerings
➢ Inequalities & Social Exclusion
✓ Gender equality and empowering women and girls (CSO capacity development)
✓ Inclusion of key populations at risk of HIV - LGBTIQ
✓ Urbanization, HIV and health
➢ Governance for Health
✓ Legal, policy, regulatory environments for HIV and health
✓ Governance to address NCDs and accelerate tobacco control
✓ Sustainable financing for HIV/ health, NGO social contracting
✓ Anti-corruption in health systems
✓ Intellectual Property and access to medicine
✓ Social, economic and environmental determinants (SEEDs) of health
➢ Resilient & Sustainable Systems for Health
✓ Implementation support/capacity for large-scale health programmes (GFATM implementation
support)
✓ Universal Health Coverage (in partnership w/ WHO).
✓ Inclusive social protection (LGBTIQ, People Living with HIV and other key populations)
✓ Planetary health.
✓ Health Procurement

4. Healthcare Waste Assessments of UNDP Global Fund grants

5. Sustainable
Procurement in the
Health Sector
SPHS Members
UNDP, UNEP, UNFPA,
UNHCR,UNICEF, UNOPS,WHO,
GFTAM, GAVI, UNITAID

6. 6
Countries supported on
formulating/updating
NDCs (50)
Urban
Water
Nature solutions
EnergyAgriculture
Industries
Multi-sector (adaptation)
UNDP’s Climate Portfolio: 140 countries; $4.6b in grant
Adaptation: 66%
Mitigation: 34%
Countries supported in
implementing climate action
(140)

7. VISION: A world on a path to zero carbon and climate resilient development
Ambition:
Enhanced 100 NDCs by 2020
Acceleration:
Scale Up Climate Action in 142 countries
Mobilization:
Bridge Civil Society & Youth with Government Policy
Adaptation/Resilience
- 200 million people reduced vulnerability to CC -
Equator Prize Ceremony
Social Good Summit
Youth/Civil society on health and climate
5 for 1.5 film series
Greener cities, brighter future
- 20 sustainable cities by 2030 -
Powering rural development
- 100 million additional people access clean energy
by 2030 -
Nature based solutions
- 100 million ha of degraded land restored by 2030
NDC Database – June 2019
Global NDC Outlook Report – August
2019
NDC Toolkit – December 2019
Climate Finance
- 3 USD Billion in grant finance by 2030 -
“UNDP’s Climate Promise”
- Launch in 2019 -
GCF Investment Platform on Clean Energy;
Vertical Funds; Bi/Multi Programmes
2019 - 2020 2019 - 2030 2019 onwards
Citizen’s Climate Vote

8. UNDP NDC Strategy
• NDCs are in the centre of UNDP’s climate programming
✓ Increase ambition
✓ Accelerate implementation
✓ Mobilize societies
• SDG-centered and linked to Strategic Plan
climate action to unlock economic and social benefits
for achieving SDGs
• 4 strategic areas for country-level support:
❖ Strengthen integrated governance and transparency system for NDCs;
❖ Facilitate and mobilize scaled-up investments in climate action;
❖ Generate evidence of sustainable development co-benefits and
NDC opportunities;
❖ Advocate for political leadership and societal mandate for higher
ambition.
• “All In” – Partnerships!

9. Our work on Climate Change
❖ Support to NDCs, NAPs and climate policies: EU4Climate…
❖ EWSs and climate information: Georgia, BiH, Uzbekistan…
❖ Resilient livelihoods and CRM: Armenia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan…
❖ Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: EE in buildings, DREI,
sustainable cities, green transport
❖ Climate Education and Youth

10. Our work on Health & Resilience
❖Mainstreaming CC in health policies and planning
❖Resilient Health Systems
❖Multi-sector responses to non-communicable diseases
❖Medical Waste
❖Health Procurement

11. Climate Resilient Health Systems
in partnership with WHO
❖ Building Climate Resilience of Health Systems in Asian LDCs,
GEF/WHO/UNDP, 2018-2022
❖ Pilot Program on Climate Change Adaptation to Protect Human
Health, GEF/WHO/UNDP, 2010-2015
❖ Building resilience of health systems in Pacific LDCs to climate
change (new)

12. UNDP Offer on CC & Health
Climate & Health Policies and Planning:
Health NAPs, NDCs, LEDS, CC mainstreaming
Climate Information and Early Warning Systems:
innovative integrated solutions, inter-agency coordination
Institutional Capacity Building:
improved preparedness, cross-sectoral
Adaptation and building resilience of health systems:
climate risk management, “last mile” responses, EbA
Greening/Sustainable health systems:
energy efficiency, RE, sustainable procurement
Regional cooperation and knowledge sharing
Partner on…

13. UNDP Offer on CC & Health
❖ Multi-sectoral responses
❖ Integrated solutions
❖ Coordinated action
Climate action:
Air quality
CC Impacts on:
Ecosystem health
CC Impacts on:
Droughts / storms
Crop losses
CC Impacts on:
Water quality
Water scarcity
Water Food
Energy
Environ
ment
Health

14. Thank You!