SMA RT SMART HEALTH CARE FACILITIES IN THE H O S CARIBBEAN PROJECT - PHASE II P

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A PROJECT DURATION: June 2015 to June L 2020

SAFE + GREEN = SMART TARGET COUNTRIES: Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines IMPLEMENTING AGENCY: Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Department of Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief in partnership with the Ministry of Health in each target country

DONOR SUPPORT: United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID)

BACKGROUND PROJECT DESCRIPTION Natural hazards and climac extremes, like hurricanes, earthquakes, floods and storm surge can cause significant AIM: To provide safer, greener disrupon of health services and economic losses. health facilies to deliver care in Downme, during and aer an extreme event, limits the ability of health facilies to provide emergency care to disasters vicms and ongoing healthcare for their communies. RESULTS Many health facilies in the Caribbean are located in areas Output #1: of high risk and need strengthening in the face of repeated All healthcare facilies will be assessed for disaster safety, water and energy consumpon. This will provide a damage or increasing climate threats. Health care facilies roadmap for risk reducon investment as well as green can also be large consumers of energy, with a significant measures and be incorporated into the naonal risk environmental footprint. With energy prices in the exposure database of each country. Caribbean among the highest in the world, savings could be beer used on improving services. Output #2: SMART Standards will be implemented in selected health The 'Smart Health Care Facilies in the Caribbean' project, care facilies in Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, funded by the UK Department for Internaonal Jamaica, Saint Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Development (DFID) was implemented by PAHO/WHO in partnership with the Ministries of Health in target Output #3: countries. A regional building code annex, guideline and Naonal and regional capacity will be developed to toolkit for retrofing exisng or new facilies was promote climate smart health facility standards. This developed and tested in two countries. The toolkit includes: provides a step by step guide and includes the Hospital a. Health workers and users of the facilies; Safety Index (HSI), Baseline Assessment Tool (BAT), Green b. Other sectors and climate change plaorms or programmes; Checklist and ulises cost-benefit analysis to support c. Technical stakeholders (construcon, engineering; investment decision making. Scale up of the project, also architects etc.); and supported by DFID, will be implemented in seven (7) d. Media. Caribbean countries: Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. For more informaon, please visit: www.paho.org/disasters/caribbean