The Organisation of Jap Caribbean States (OECS) lately participated in a Stakeholder Engagement Session on the EU/CARIFORUM Local weather Change and Well being Undertaking: Strengthening Local weather Resilient Well being Programs In The Caribbean with the Pan American Well being Group (PAHO).
Sisera Simon, Head of the Human and Social Division, OECS, referred to as the session to order and supplied welcome remarks in addition to a vote of thanks.
Chairperson, Dr Taraleen Malcolm, PAHO Advisor, Noncommunicable Illnesses and Psychological Well being, delivered introductions.
Transient remarks had been supplied by Dr Florian Luetticken, Crew Lead/ Counsellor, EU Caribbean Partnership for Governance, Safety and Human Improvement; Mr. Dean Chambliss, PAHO Subregional Program Director, and Dr Didacus Jules, Director Basic of the OECS.
Dean Chambliss famous that: The timing of our dialogue is opportune, because the European Union Local weather and Well being venture, now in its fourth yr, is concentrated on the sustainability of a regional Local weather Change and Well being programme. We’re very happy to have the EU collaborating this morning as a key companion in well being.
Dr Didacus Jules remarked: We’re right here to focus particularly on the well being points however let me say that the difficulty of the multi-dimensionality of the local weather change disaster is one thing that’s turning into more and more well-recognized and the assorted multi-lateral and worldwide specialised companies are starting to focus their areas of competence on that, so we very a lot welcome that partnership with each the EU and PAHO.
The stakeholder discussions highlighted the one well being method and had been centred on:
The EU/ CARIFORUM CCH Undertaking Actions and Alternatives for OECS International locations;
The EU Regional Local weather Change and Well being Agenda; and
Strengthening Collaboration with the OECS round Local weather Change, Well being and Sustainability.
Regional well being programs and populations stay extremely susceptible to impacts from local weather change inflicting excessive climate; detrimental results on meals and water safety; impacts to well being and wellbeing; misplaced/ lowered work capacity-migration; financial impacts; and lack of ability to realize the Sustainable Improvement Targets (SDGs).
The EU/CARIFORUM Local weather Change Undertaking intends to make use of a one-health method, throughout the Caribbean Cooperation in Well being Part IV (CCH IV) Framework, thereby contributing to lowered mortality and morbidity from anticipated well being penalties of local weather change in Caribbean nations. It contains linkages to the environmental determinants of well being, COVID-19 prevention and management, and helps sixteen (16) Caribbean nations: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.
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