Impact

The GCCHE works to reduce the health burdens of climate change on the most vulnerable individuals, creating healthy communities in the face of the climate crisis. To contribute to achieving this high-level impact, the mission of the GCCHE is to ensure that all health professionals throughout the world have the knowledge and skills to identify, prevent, and respond to the health impacts of climate change, thereby reducing health disparities and improving human health and well-being. 

While changes in health burdens, especially at the population level, take time to accomplish, sometimes many years, these advances are spurred by the more enabling environment created by GCCHE’s efforts implemented alongside parallel and complementary efforts by other climate and health actors. The theory of change graphic below details how the work that the GCCHE and its partners do leads to the long-term change we seek to achieve. 
 

To evaluate the effectiveness of the GCCHE in reducing the health burdens of climate change we track the Consortium’s progress toward achieving our mission: ensuring that health professionals globally have the knowledge and skills to prevent, reduce and respond to the health impacts of climate change AND that they are taking actions to do so.  Our comprehensive evaluation framework encompasses four key domains: Adaptation, Mitigation, Capacity Building, and Policy and Advocacy.

Adaptation indicators

• Indicator 1: Number of health professionals engaged in reducing climate-related morbidity and mortality 
• Indicator 2: Number of adaptation-focused interventions implemented by health professionals 

Mitigation Indicators

• Indicator 1: Number of health professionals engaged in climate mitigation initiatives 
• Indicator 2: Number of mitigation-related policies, programs, or initiatives implemented 

Capacity Building Indicators

• Indicator 1: Number of health professionals trained in climate and health adaptation and mitigation 
• Indicator 2: Number of capacity-building programs developed or implemented

Policy and Advocacy Indicators

• Indicator 1: Number of health professionals engaged in climate-health policy or advocacy 
• Indicator 2: Number of climate-health policies influenced, or developed  (e.g  national adaptation plans or policy documents, or guidelines generated through country-level or intergovernmental consultations)