Project budget– 1.2 million THB
Project location– ASEAN region
Donor- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Project duration – 24 Feb 2022 – 30 Oct 2023
Description- The project aims to develop capacities and facilitate South-South cooperation around the use of data and tools to assess co-benefits and costs of inaction on environmental health issues, with a strong focus on air pollution. Through doing so it will support integrated and science-based policy interventions in Cambodia, Indonesia, and Thailand, and across the ASEAN region. At the regional level, the project develops knowledge products and knowledge-sharing events to raise awareness amongst policy- and decision-makers on the use of environmental health data and tools. This includes an ASEAN toolkit that gives practical steps for using data tools to assess co-benefits and cost of inaction to maximize synergies, minimize trade-offs and find win-win policy measures that address multiple SDG challenges. The project also holds events to support ASEAN-level dialogue and knowledge-sharing – including in support of the Asia-Pacific Regional Forum on Health and Environment – to foster a regional commitment to science-based, multisectoral policy practice to address the environment and health SDG targets together.
