Please refer to the attached file. Climate-related disasters, including droughts, floods and cyclones, have displaced millions in sub-Saharan Africa. Identified by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a climate hotspot, the region faces severe vulnerabilities due to increasingly frequent and intense extreme weather events. Migration, predominantly internal, serves as a key adaptation strategy to environmental and economic challenges. Concurrently, the region records some of the worst global outcomes in sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and HIV indicators. The study aimed to achieve the following: (a) deepen understanding of the links between climate change, migration and SRHR in Southern Africa, and provide guidance for the SRHR-HIV Knows No Borders (KNB) programme; (b) assess subnational health system readiness to address the SRHR-HIV needs of displaced populations using the Minimum Initial Service Package Readiness Assessment Tool; (c) identify capacity gaps among project teams and partners delivering SRHR-HIV interventions in crisis settings; (d) develop, with stakeholders, a problem tree and theory of change addressing the nexus between SRHR, migration and climate change, and integrate these into the KNB framework; (e) develop at least two case studies on climate impacts on SRHR and related mitigation measures; and (f) develop advocacy messages to improve the SRHR well-being of internally displaced persons, migrants, young vulnerable people and sex workers in Southern Africa.
Namibia: Exploring the Nexus between Climate Change, Migration and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights–HIV in Southern Africa
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