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The Health Impact Project’s cross-sector toolkit for health

A wealth of resources and toolkit to promote healthier communities through cross-sector collaboration. The cross-sector toolkit for health contains resources that help communities, agencies and other organizations take action to improve public health. The toolkit offers a collection of HIAs, guides and other research to support policy-makers’ efforts to consider health when making decisions across […]

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Low carbon living co-benefits calculator

The aim of the project is to develop and trial a prototype low-carbon precinct co-benefits calculator for use by urban planners and designers. The calculator estimates co-benefits associated with a range of alternative precinct designs and transport/land-use configurations across health, productivity and pollution associated with greenhouse gases and particulate emissions. The calculator will estimate population

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City Resilience Action Planning Tool (CityRAP)

Known as CityRAP, this tool is used for training technicians in small to intermediate sized cities in sub-Saharan Africa. CityRAP enables communities to understand and plan actions aimed at reducing risk and building resilience through the development of a resilience framework for action. It is designed as an enabling rather than prescriptive tool, as the

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Participatory budgeting

The tool uses technology to include citizens in the decision-making process for their city’s budget. The benefits derive from the tool’s short-term results and concrete outcomes for those involved. For example, participatory health budgeting can lead to prioritization of and investment in public health issues addressing citizens’ real needs. It is a resource useful to

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Clean Household Energy Solutions Toolkit (CHEST)

For clean and safe interventions in the home. Helps health sector professionals and policy-makers implement the recommendations found in WHO guidelines on indoor air quality and household fuel combustion. It provides resources to guide the energy planning process, using evidence from WHO databases and training materials. Contains tools for assessment of the current state of

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