Organizational Philosophy for ACC
The global challenge we aim to tackle is the immense burden placed by climate change upon human, and animal health and the environment in low-income countries. We aim to investigate and provide sustainable solutions to health challenges including; food security, livestock farming systems, antimicrobial resistance control, and environment sanitation.
The environment in which people live is largely responsible for the global disparity in human health, lifespan, and well-being that exists. The livelihoods of communities as well as human and animal health are highly influenced by climate change. The prevalence of diseases and food insecurity have a huge influence and is one of several ecological, economic, social, and political elements that cause these impacts. Climate change affects a large number of sectors. This means that integrated approaches and intersectoral/multisectoral collaboration are vital to face such challenges.
Food Security
Appropriate Technology
Community Attitude
Health Research
Capacity Building
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A common feature of these diseases is that the fast-environmental change taking place in low-income, tropical nations is projected to significantly affect their epidemiology in the near future. The cumulative consequences of long-term climate change, which are shifting both the average and extremes of weather, are key issues addressed by the Action for Climate Change (ACC) organization.
While non-communicable illnesses have a greater influence on public health in affluent nations, infectious diseases, and food insecurity continue to be the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the world’s poorest nations. The burden is particularly heavy in African countries where inadequate health care infrastructure, extreme poverty, political unrest, limited access to clean water, and deteriorating environmental conditions (fueled by climate change) contribute to the spread and emergence of a variety of pernicious infections to both humans and animals and also food insecurity.
A common feature of these diseases is that the fast-environmental change taking place in low-income, tropical nations is projected to significantly affect their epidemiology in the near future. The cumulative consequences of long-term climate change, which are shifting both the average and extremes of weather, are key issues addressed by the Action for Climate Change (ACC) organization. Additionally, with the rising needs of agricultural and animal production; human activities are drastically changing land usage throughout much of the developing globe. Last but not least, shifts in the human population and the infrastructure that goes along with it are fundamentally altering how people interact with one another, other animal reservoirs and vectors, and water supplies. Based on the above challenges, ACC aims at achieving the following specific goals;
A) Food security
• Promoting food production to enhance food availability to community members
• Enhance food shelf life/ storability and improve food safety through food processing to reduce food losses during pre and post-harvesting thus prolong period of accessing food by the target community
• Influencing communities’ attitudes towards foods and adjustment eating culture and agricultural practices to cope with climate change
• Diversification of sources of incomes to increase access to food thus reduce food insecurity
• Promote horticulture as means of both food and cash access aiming to achieve food security in totality
• Diversify methods of food production (promote irrigation and other non-traditional means of food production) to increase food availability.- B) The use of appropriate Technology
• Introduce/ enhance affordable and user friendly technology thus promote resilience and adaptation to climate change
- C) Changing communities’ attitudes, particularly those fueling climate change.
• Sensitization of communities against practices that promote negative climate change
• Influencing Government authorities in setting and implementing policies that have influence on climate change or related negative impacts
• Demonstrating practices that promote resilience and adaptation to climate change.
• Cultivate and promote cultures that have positive impact in relation to climate change - D) One Health Research and Interventions.
• Surveillance of pathogens that depend on the environment and climate (water borne and vector borne pathogens)
• Establish dynamics of risk factors of environment dependent pathogens along with climate changes
• Establish collaborations with research institutions to address climate change impacts on health
• Investigate the impact, contribution, utility, effectiveness and cost–effectiveness of interventions to ensure safely managed water, sanitation and hygiene (including hand hygiene) and waste management practices in the community setting on reducing the burden and drivers of antimicrobial resistance, such as unnecessary antibiotic consumption for diarrheal diseases in low- and middle-income countries - E) Building capacity in climate change-related challenges.
The above strategies will involve a variety of methods of capacity building accordingly. Such methods include but are not limited to training, campaigning, promoting innovative irrigation technologies and storage of agricultural and horticultural produces, material support, exchange and sharing knowledge for farmers, establishing demonstration plots, networking farmers with research institutes for evidence-based research and best agricultural practices and connecting farmers with markets of agricultural produces.