BKKCAW Resources

Viet Nam hosts global learning visit on closing the gender nutrition gap and advancing climate‑resilient food systems

20 April 2026

This global learning initiative brings together diverse country experiences to co-create solutions at the intersection of gender, nutrition, and climate resilience. It highlights the importance of peer learning, participatory approaches, and cross-country collaboration in tackling systemic challenges. By centering women’s roles and addressing gender-based barriers within food systems, the initiative demonstrates how locally grounded, collective action can drive transformative change at scale. Focus: Gender, nutrition, and climate-resilient food systems Key values: Showcases multi-country learning and co-creation approaches Highlights integrated, gender-transformative solutions Why it fits Bangkok Climate Action Week: Aligns with Global South collaboration and knowledge sharing Supports equity-driven climate and nutrition action

Clearing the Air Together: Pathways for Integrating Citizen Science in Air Quality Management Initiatives

31 August 2025

​Air pollution is one of today’s greatest public health threats, driving respiratory illness, cardiovascular disease and millions of premature deaths worldwide. Yet in many countries, reliable local data to understand and address these risks is limited. Clearing the Air Together: Pathways for Integrating Citizen Science in Air Quality Management Initiatives highlights how citizen science can bridge this gap by involving the public directly in monitoring and research. The guide demonstrates how rigorous scientific methods can be paired with active public participation to generate timely, relevant evidence that strengthens decision-making and health responses. The suggested strategies are practical, low-cost and scalable, making them suitable for settings ranging from cities to rural towns. While focused on air quality, the approaches are flexible and can be adapted to challenges such as water safety, disaster risk or public health monitoring, offering a powerful tool for building healthier, more inclusive and resilient societies.

Resilient Health Systems in Asia: A Guide to Contextualizing Climate Vulnerability Assessment Tools for Local Needs

15 January 2025

The purpose of this document is to share experience on how global vulnerability assessment tools have been adapted and applied for creating climate-resilient and sustainable health care facilities in Asia. Rather than serving as a step-by-step instructional manual, it showcases some of the key methods and frameworks that can be used to adapt global assessment tools to make them more contextualized and reflective of local realities.

A Strategic Approach to HIV Programming in a Changing Climate: FHI 360’s Vision for Collective Action

6 August 2024

This document offers strategic pillars for climate-responsive HIV programming, outlining collective action and swift, comprehensive, innovative responses to address the effects of climate change on HIV response. Through climate-responsive HIV programming, we can help protect the gains in HIV prevention, treatment and care — and ensure continued and sustained progress toward HIV epidemic control in our changing world.

Green Viability and Climate Vulnerability Assessments in Healthcare-related Facilities in Thailand (2024)

12 July 2024

This assessment reveals how climate risks intersect with economic vulnerability, gender-based risks, and access barriers within health-related facilities. It provides a nuanced understanding of how crises and disruptions compound multiple forms of disadvantage, particularly for women and marginalized groups. By highlighting practical, people-centred interventions—such as social protection and financial support—it demonstrates how strengthening resilience requires addressing both environmental and social vulnerabilities simultaneously. Focus: How economic vulnerability, gender-based violence risks, and access gaps intersect and are often intensified during crises and disruptions Key value: Shows overlapping risks (financial insecurity, safety, service access) shape resilience Highlights practical, people-centered responses (e.g., cash assistance) Why it fits BKKCAW: Aligns with focus on lived experiences and equity Brings a human-centered, protection lens to climate impacts

Climate Change-Driven Disasters and Health Inequities

19 April 2024

This policy brief provides a compelling analysis of how climate-related disasters disproportionately impact vulnerable populations, deepening existing health inequities. It highlights how shocks such as floods, droughts, and extreme weather events disrupt access to care, livelihoods, and essential services. By offering multisectoral strategies, the brief reframes climate resilience as an equity and justice issue, underscoring the urgent need to prioritize inclusive, people-centred health systems in climate responses. Focus: How climate disasters exacerbate health inequities Key value: Highlights vulnerable populations disproportionately affected Provides multisectoral strategies for resilient, equitable health systems Why it fits BKKCAW: Directly aligns with “just transitions,” equity, and climate justice framing Useful for panel discussions or policy-oriented sessions

Climate change and human health in Vietnam: a systematic review and additional analyses on current impacts, future risk, and adaptation

1 November 2023

This comprehensive review synthesizes evidence on how climate change is already affecting health outcomes in Viet Nam, with projections of increasing risks. It shows that climate-related disasters consistently exacerbate existing inequities, disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations through impacts on disease burden, mental health, and access to care. The analysis underscores the urgency of integrating equity into climate adaptation and health system planning to ensure no one is left behind. Focus: Climate-related disasters and extreme weather events and their impacts on health inequities and vulnerable populations Key value: Shows disasters consistently worsen existing health disparities Highlights impacts on mental health, disease burden, and access to care Emphasizes need for equity-focused preparedness and recovery planning Why it fits BKKCAW: Connects climate impacts to human health and inequality Reinforces need for inclusive, resilience-focused climate action

Green Feeding Tool

1 August 2023

Developed by researchers at Australian National University and Alive & Thrive, the Green Feeding Tool allows users to quantify the positive environmental impacts of breastfeeding at the country level. Using publicly available datasets, the tool calculates the ecological impact of supporting mothers to breastfeed and reducing reliance on commercial milk formula.

Rethinking climate crisis solutions in Asian cities by harnessing local evidence

23 July 2023

This research article challenges conventional, top-down climate solutions by advocating for approaches grounded in local evidence and interdisciplinary collaboration. It highlights the interconnected nature of climate, health, and social inequities in rapidly urbanizing Asian contexts. By emphasizing systems thinking and the translation of research into policy and practice, it calls for more inclusive, context-specific solutions that reflect the realities of communities most affected by climate change. Focus: Integrating climate action with health, equity, and interdisciplinary approaches to adaptation and policy Key value: Emphasizes intersection of climate, health, and social justice Calls for interdisciplinary and systems-based approaches to climate solutions Highlights importance of linking research to real-world impact and policy Why it fits BKKCAW: Aligns with whole-of-society and cross-sector collaboration Supports locally grounded, equitable climate solutions

Sharing Underutilized Resources with Fishers and Farmers

The SURF project demonstrates how integrated approaches can strengthen climate resilience while improving livelihoods for farmers and fishers in Tunisia. By combining climate-smart practices, access to finance, and market linkages with national-level disaster risk management systems and digital technologies, it connects community action with institutional capacity. This holistic model shows how climate adaptation, economic viability, and ecosystem protection can be advanced together, ensuring vulnerable communities actively benefit from climate action. Focus: Resource optimization and resilience among small-scale producers Key value: Promotes more efficient use of resources under climate constraints Strengthens livelihoods and adaptive capacity Why it fits Bangkok Climate Action Week: Aligns with resilience-building and sustainable livelihoods Relevant to climate adaptation in food systems

Climate-sensitive Nutrition

The production of food (from farming, processing at factories, and distribution to points of sale) is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Dairy products, including commercial milk formula, are major contributors. The activities needed to produce commercial milk formula not only use fossil fuels, they also require massive amounts of water and generate significant plastic waste. By increasing support for breastfeeding, we can preserve water and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.