Regional Capacity Building Tools

South-East Asia Region (SEARO)

Capacity building

Key information

Material #1

  • Title of the capacity building or training materials:

    A practice guide to effective population-based food policy action to promote healthy diets

  • Type of material (e.g. online eCourse, online training module, shared copy or pdf training manual, training package, video, etc.):

    Practice guide

  • Languages the materials is available in:

    English

  • The UN agency or partnership that developed the material (e.g. UNICEF, FAO/WHO collaboration):

    SEARO/WHO

  • Purpose of the material:

    This publication provides directions for a logical, evidence informed approach to selecting, developing, implementing and monitoring population-based interventions within the context of the double-burden of malnutrition in South-East Asia. The focus of this guide is on processed or ultra-processed pre-packaged foods. Implicit is the understanding that natural or minimally processed foods are best and their consumption should be encouraged whenever possible. This document also emphasizes that interventions are likely to be most effective when used in a coherent, integrated way to address underlying drivers and barriers to a healthy diet.

  • Main topic of the material:

    Promotion of healthy diets in the South-East Asia region

  • Date developed:

    2017

  • URL (if available online):

    WHO link to the page on the guide:

    Strategic Action Plan to reduce the double burden of malnutrition in the South-East Asia Region 2016–2025

    Link to the .pdf document:

    PDF file

Key information

Material #2

  • Title of the capacity building or training materials:

    Strategic action plan to reduce the double burden of malnutrition in the South-East Asia region 2016-2025

  • Type of material (e.g. online eCourse, online training module, shared copy or pdf training manual, training package, video, etc.):

    .pdf document

  • Languages the materials is available in:

    English

  • The UN agency or partnership that developed the material (e.g. UNICEF, FAO/WHO joint collaboration):

    SEARO/WHO

  • Purpose of the material:

    The Strategic Action Plan to Reduce the Double Burden of Malnutrition in the South-East Asia Region 2016–2025 aims to provide guidance to Member States on comprehensive approaches to prevent malnutrition. This plan will serve Member States as an advocacy and reference tool to ensure that interventions covering all forms of malnutrition are addressed comprehensively in country policies, strategies and actions.

  • Main topic of the material:

    Providing guidance to Member States on the Strategic Action Plan to Reduce the Double Burden of Malnutrition in the South-East Asia Region 2016–2025

  • Date developed:

    2017

  • URL (if available online):

    WHO link to the page on the action plan:

    Link to the .pdf document:

Key information

Material #3

  • Title of the capacity building or training materials:

    Climate change and health – training modules

  • Type of material (e.g. online eCourse, online training module, shared copy or pdf training manual, training package, video, etc.):

    Training package

  • Languages the materials is available in:

    English

  • The UN agency or partnership that developed the material (e.g. UNICEF, FAO/WHO joint collaboration):

    WHO/SEARO, WHO/WPRO and GIZ, Bonn.

  • Purpose of the material:

    The training package consists of 16 standalone modules covering a range of topics that will prove very useful to build capacity of public health professionals who are involved in management of public health programmes impacted by climate change. The modules are also designed for ease of use by professionals from other sectors such as the environment, transport, disaster preparedness, etc., enabling them to understand the intersectoral nature of the issue and to address health impacts jointly with other sectors. One or more modules can be used as advocacy material as well as to orient different target audiences such as policymakers

  • Main topic of the material:

    Capacity building of public health professionals involved in management of public health programmed impacted by climate change.

  • Date developed:

    Prepared initially in 2009 and substantially revised by a group of experts in 2014.

  • URL (if available online):

    Link to SEARO page on the training modules:

    Climate Change and Health – Training Modules

    Link to the .pdf of the training:

    Climate change and health training modules web

  • Notes:

    Modules included in the training:

    • Module 1: Introduction to weather, climate, climate change and variability
    • Module 2: Population health and climate change
    • Module 3: Policies & practice of mitigation & adaptation – Relevance to health
    • Module 4: Assessment and prediction of the health impacts of climate change
    • Module 5: Thermal extremes
    • Module 6: Extreme weather
    • Module 7: Vector-borne diseases and climate change
    • Module 8: Water-borne diseases and climate change
    • Module 9: Food security and malnutrition
    • Module 10: Air quality
    • Module 11: Assessing health vulnerability
    • Module 12: Adaptation to climate change
    • Module 13: Mitigation and co-benefits
    • Module 14: Health and the UNFCCC
    • Module 15: Disaster risk management
    • Module 16: Communicating climate change and health