develop planetary health resilience planning

Develop Planetary Health Resilience Planning

The purpose of the proposed “CATA-Earth” project – Catalysing Transformative Change in Planetary Health Education – is to build capacity for designing and delivering innovative community-driven planetary health education in climate-vulnerable regions in Bangladesh and Indonesia. CATA-Earth will enable transformation in how planetary health is taught in higher education and the ability of third country higher education institutions (HEIs) to create a new generation of planetary health change makers. This new cadre of qualified planetary health experts will work with public and private sector stakeholders to more effectively address regional planetary health challenges and usher in a green transition in Asia.The purpose of the proposed “CATA-Earth” project – Catalysing Transformative Change in Planetary Health Education – is to build capacity for designing and delivering innovative community-driven planetary health education in climate-vulnerable regions in Bangladesh and Indonesia. CATA-Earth will enable transformation in how planetary health is taught in higher education and the ability of third country higher education institutions (HEIs) to create a new generation of planetary health change makers. This new cadre of qualified planetary health experts will work with public and private sector stakeholders to more effectively address regional planetary health challenges and usher in a green transition in Asia.

The project’s SMART objectives were defined, taking into account the size of the consortium, Asian partners’ priority regional needs and the available budget to ensure coherence and feasibility:

• Objective 1: Raise the visibility of planetary health in partner education systems to better meet needs of the labour market and society – by creating an innovative community-driven Framework and Toolkit to deliver planetary health education that is aligned to regional socio-economic and environmental challenges. The Framework and Toolkit will be scalable and transferable to many other HEIs in Asia, EU and beyond.
• Objective 2: By using the 3C’s methodology, develop community-driven planetary health curricula and courses which are fully contextualised to third country HEIs needs with involvement at all stages by students and local stakeholders.
• Objective 3: Train a cadre of HE teachers and community leaders (all genders) in each partner region to design, develop and deliver planetary health courses via the new community-driven model (to students, postgraduates, community leaders, enterprises, researchers). Embed modern digital skills, e-learning didactics, community engaged learning (CEL).and challenge-based learning (CBL).
• Objective 4: Co-deliver new planetary health courses in third country HEIs based on the innovative community-driven model including close engagement with local stakeholders throughout.
• Objective 5: Ensure sustainability of project results by transferring the Planetary Health Education Framework and Toolkit and curricula/courses to other Asian HEIs and HEIs in the EU.
• Objective 6:�Enhance international credentials of participating HEIs in Asia with limited exposure to international cooperation projects, using experience of new PH Education Framework and Toolkit as a platform for new
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