A multisectoral approach bolstering resilience for people and planet
Résumé
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the inter-connectedness of environmental and human health. This is acknowledged in many recovery strategies, including the WHO’s first prescription for a healthy, green recovery from the pandemic, which is to “Protect and preserve the source of human health: Nature.” This awareness underpins a growing understanding that our most pressing global challenges require multidimensional, multisectoral solutions.
Blue Ventures recognises the links between poor health, poverty, environmental degradation and vulnerability to climate change. In response to these interconnected challenges, we have developed a holistic approach to conservation, integrating community health services with local marine management and coastal livelihood initiatives. This approach creates operational efficiencies and synergies that make us highly effective at achieving health and conservation goals. It has also enabled our partner communities to better navigate the COVID-19 pandemic.
Classifications
Région
Ampleur de la mise en œuvre
Ecosystème
Thème
Défis
Objectifs de développement durable
Approches pour l’engagement des entreprises
Défis
- Poor community health, limiting communities’ ability to engage in conservation
- Poverty and heavy reliance upon natural resources, with a lack of alternative livelihoods
- Overfishing and the collapse of marine ecosystems
- Weak national public health systems
- Limited community ability to respond to shocks and stressors (such as pandemics or extreme weather events
Bénéficiaires
- Local communities in the area of implementation
- Neighboring communities, and coastal communities throughout Madagascar through knowledge sharing and capacity building
Blocs Constitutifs
Comment les blocs constitutifs interagissent-ils entre eux dans la solution?
Through listening to communities, addressing community needs in a holistic way, including ensuring that they enjoy good health and have access to financial resources, communities are better able to address longer term goals such as the sustainable use of marine resources. Investing in building community capacity for marine resource management means that those most reliant on those resources are enabled to manage them, for the benefit of people and planet.
Impacts
- The health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic were mitigated
- Improvement in the health of communities
- Greater ability to earn a livelihood and engage with non-extractive livelihood opportunities
- Greater food security
- Greater sense of empowerment
- Greater community ability to engage in natural resource management
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