Population Health and Environment (PHER)

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Programme aims to improve health outcomes by addressing environmental conditions that drive preventable diseases. The programme increases access to safe water, dignified sanitation, and sustained hygiene practices—reducing waterborne illnesses, strengthening infection prevention, and improving maternal, newborn, and child health.

Embedded within people-centred Primary Health Care, WASH interventions strengthen health system performance and community resilience by improving quality of care, patient safety, and outbreak preparedness in health facilities, while enabling households to adopt safer practices that protect health gains and sustain access to essential services in climate-vulnerable settings.

Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)

The NTD portfolio decreases disease burden and preventable disability among underserved and marginalised communities by incorporating NTD prevention and care into people-centred primary health care.

The portfolio achieves measurable outcomes through mass drug administration, early case detection, treatment, and morbidity management, reducing transmission, preventing long-term complications, and restoring dignity and productivity for affected populations. By strengthening community and facility-based services, the programme improves continuity of care and accelerates progress towards elimination targets.

NTD interventions strengthen health system performance by building the capacity of community health workers and health facilities to identify, manage, and refer cases early, and by improving surveillance and data use to enable timely responses. The portfolio also addresses environmental drivers of NTDs by linking health services with WASH and behaviour change, protecting health gains and reducing reinfection.

Climate Crisis

This initiative strengthens health systems and communities to anticipate, withstand, and recover from climate-related shocks that increasingly threaten health, livelihoods, and development.

The programme delivers measurable outcomes by integrating climate resilience and adaptation into people-centred Primary Health Care, ensuring continuity of essential services during climate shocks and reducing climate-sensitive health risks, including waterborne and vector-borne diseases, undernutrition, and disruptions to maternal and child health. By strengthening climate-informed surveillance, early warning, and preparedness, and investing in resilient infrastructure, sustainable water and sanitation, and climate-smart service delivery, the programme enhances health security, strengthens governance and coordination, and enables communities and county systems to adopt adaptive practices that protect health, livelihoods, and natural resources in vulnerable and hard-to-reach settings.

Health Security

This programme strengthens the capacity of communities and health systems to prevent, detect, and respond to public health threats while maintaining continuity of essential services. Anchored in people-centred Primary Health Care, it delivers measurable outcomes by improving outbreak surveillance, early detection, and coordinated response, reducing the spread of infectious diseases and protecting vulnerable populations during health emergencies.

Health security interventions enhance system readiness by building the capacity of frontline health workers, strengthening laboratory and referral networks, and improving data use and coordination across sectors and levels of government. These investments shorten response times, support evidence-based decision-making, and ensure that critical health services continue during crises.

By integrating health security with WASH, climate resilience, and community engagement, the programme addresses underlying risk factors for outbreaks while strengthening community trust, compliance, and resilience in the face of public health shocks.

Livelihoods

The livelihoods portfolio enhances household and community resilience by boosting income security, food systems, and economic participation, recognising that sustainable livelihoods are vital for lasting health outcomes.

The programme achieves measurable outcomes by supporting climate-resilient and inclusive livelihood opportunities that decrease vulnerability to shocks and help households meet their health, nutrition, and social needs. By linking livelihoods to people-centred Primary Health Care, the programme tackles the economic barriers that prevent timely care-seeking, treatment adherence, and healthy living.

Livelihood interventions enhance food and nutrition security, especially for women, youth, and marginalised communities, reducing undernutrition and improving maternal and child health outcomes. Through skills development, enterprise support, and access to finance, households boost income stability and resilience in climate- and resource-stressed environments.

The programme strengthens community systems and local markets by collaborating with county governments, private sector partners, and community structures to scale sustainable models that generate jobs, preserve natural resources, and support local economies.

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