National Climate Change Action Plan for Public Health (2020-2024).

This National Climate Change Action Plan for Public Health (NCCAPPH) for the period of 2020-2024 provides a set of specific actions and measures in response to the climate change risks and impacts on the public health of the Cambodian population. The goals of the NCCAPPH are to reduce morbidity, mortality, injuries and health vulnerability to climate variability and extreme weathers and to contribute to the implementation of strategic objectives in the Cambodia Climate Change Strategic Plan 2014-2023, and the Health Strategic Plan 2016-2020 (HSP3).
The NCCAPPH has estblished the following outputs: 1. Better governance, coordination, and partnership for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in the health sector; 2. Strengthened institutional capacity and skill of medical personnel and relevant stakeholders to effectively plan and implement climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in the health sector; 3. Strengthened research, surveillance and vulnerability assessment capacity to guide decision making for adaptation to climate change impacts and disaster risks; 4. Knowledge sharing, awareness, and web-based information management systems related to health vulnerabilities associated with climate change and disaster risks; 5. Enhanced resilience of the existing health service delivery system to respond to and cope with the impacts of climate change and disaster risks; 6. Effective financing mechanisms and a M&E framework for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. The actions has been isdentified to continue to build the resilience of health system, reduce the vulnerability of health public to changing climate and climate variabilities—floods, drought, and extreme weather events, and build the adaptative capacity of the medical personnel and MOH as a whole. Since the climate change affects men and women differently coupled with existing gender inequality in communities and societies, the NCCAPPH also proposes activities to address gender inequality in the context of climate change and public health, including: Include gender components in surveys or assessments ensuring that different issues and need of males and females are collected; Livelihood activities should be provided for communities, especially for women and girls; etc.