WHO, WMO, 2021

The Readiness Toolkit supports countries to identify needs-tailored climate services, and evaluate their feasibility. It does so by guiding countries through understanding their current enabling environment, capacities, and data, evidence and information availability. It is a seven-step additive process to be followed at the national level with support from external experts.

Its main six outputs are:

  • An overview of existing policies in place to support the development of climate services;
  • An overview of existing capacities in place to support the development of climate services;
  • A summary of evidence of current climate risks and an inventory of existing climate and health data and information;
  • The identification of priority of climate information needs;
  • Definition of potential services to meet these needs;
  • A detailed feasibility evaluation of climate services.

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Enabling Environment Templates Capacity Templates Data, Evidence and Information Templates

Who is this tool for?

The Readiness toolkit can be used by the national and local health agencies, in coordination with relevant stakeholders such as local epidemiologists, meteorologists, and entomologists, to assess risk from climate hazards and to develop early warning and response strategies.

The process:

The assessment includes a combination of seven steps. Steps 1-5 are self-guided, and steps 6-7 are facilitated by external experts.

The process is divided into two parts. The first part provides the first three outputs (a-c) and aims at evaluating the three core elements, the enabling environment, the existing capacities, and the availability of data, information and evidence, for developing climate services that cater to health-decision making needs. It is designed to be carried out at the national level by a national team in collaboration with key stakeholders.

If the current policies, capacities and data/evidence/information are sufficient for the potential development of certain climate services for health, the second part of the process aims at identifying potential climate services and at assessing their feasibility. This part is designed to be conducted by an external expert in consultation with the national team.