Jamii Shupavu
Strong communities, resilient futures. Building capacity of community members, youth, and CHWs to deliver community-centered services in climate-affected settings.
Programme Goal
To build a strong cadre of community actors capable of advancing resilient, healthy, and developed communities through local action and integrated advocacy.
Jamii Shupavu Projects
Our flagship initiatives working together to build community resilience.
Malaria Free Generation
Community awareness, prevention support, school storytelling, and CHW enablement
MFGProfiles for Climate Change
Documenting lived experiences through multimedia storytelling
Profiles & CCClimate & Health Forums
Multi-stakeholder forums connecting policy, research, and lived experience
C&H ForumsIntegrated Advocacy
Youth and CHWs leading climate-resilient action against malaria and NTDs
Advocacy
Malaria Free Generation
The project addresses malaria through community awareness, prevention support, school-based storytelling, and frontline CHW enablement.
Results to Date
Malaria Programme Photos
Profiles for Climate Change
With support from Forecasting Healthy Futures, this initiative documents lived experiences of climate change and health impacts through multimedia storytelling.
Youth leadership in response to climate-health challenges
Women’s impact and CHW-linked community health action
Climate & Health Forums
AHDA convenes high-level multi-stakeholder forums that connect policy, research, implementation, and lived experience.
Zanzibar Climate and Health Forum 2024
400+ stakeholders from government, CSOs, development partners, and youth-led organizations.
Zanzibar Climate and Health Forum 2024 - Key Highlights
- Mainstream climate-health integration into all levels of health policy and planning.
- Train and empower community health workers, equipping them with tools and inclusion in surveillance systems.
- Expand youth-led resilience initiatives, with grants, skills-building, and policymaker engagement.
- Support climate-informed farming and nutrition programs that safeguard vulnerable populations during droughts and floods.
- Strengthen infrastructure resilience, including clinic fortification, reliable water systems, and climate-responsive referral networks.
- Improve data systems to regularly capture and analyze climate-sensitive health outcomes across population groups.
- Establish inter-ministerial data-sharing mechanisms to enable coordinated emergency response planning.
Dar es Salaam Forum 2025
350+ stakeholders from academia, research, government, CSOs, youth, and CHWs. This forum focused on role of youth and community health workers in building resilience.
Integrated Advocacy
Theme: Youth and Community Health Workers for Resilient Communities.
The initiative empowers youth and CHWs to lead integrated, climate-resilient action against malaria and neglected tropical diseases through local advocacy and policy engagement. With the support of Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE), in 2026, AHDA has a target to recruit and support 160 youth and community health workers from local communities in Tanzania, equip them with integrated advocacy skills, local leadership to engage communities through dialogues, media and disease elimination campaigns. This project is under implementation in collaboration with the government of Tanzania through the ministry of health and Prime Ministers Office-Regional Administration and Local Governments (PMO-RALG).
Stakeholder Engagement
