Programme Goal

Jamii Shupavu Programme aims to build a strong cadre of community actors capable of advancing resilient, healthy, and developed communities through local action and integrated advocacy.

Explore Projects
Jamii Shupavu

Jamii Shupavu Projects

Our flagship initiatives working together to build community resilience.

Malaria Free Generation

Community awareness, prevention support, school storytelling, and CHW enablement

Profiles in Climate Resilience

Documenting lived experiences through multimedia storytelling

Climate & Health Forums

Multi-stakeholder forums connecting policy, research, and lived experience

Integrated Advocacy

Youth and CHWs leading climate-resilient action against malaria and NTDs
Malaria Free Generation

Malaria Free Generation

The project addresses malaria through community awareness, prevention support, school-based storytelling, and frontline CHW enablement.

Results to Date

5,000+
community members reached
1,000
households with nets
20
CHWs trained + bicycles
3,000+
students reached

Malaria Programme Photos

Profiles for Climate Change

Profiles in Climate Resilience

With support from Forecasting Healthy Futures, Profiles in Climate Resilience uses Strategic storytelling to document the lived experiences of climate change and its health impacts. Through multimedia documentaries, the initiative highlights how communities, youth leaders, women, and Community Health Workers respond to climate-related health challenges, bringing local perspectives into broader climate and health conversations.

The series has been showcased at major global platforms, including COP29 in Baku (2024) and COP30 in Rio de Janeiro (2025), through the Forecasting Healthy Futures Summits in 2024 and 2025 (locations for the summit are the same as those for COP, respectively), where the documentaries were featured in panel discussions on strategic storytelling for climate and health advocacy. The films have also been presented at national forums such as the Tanzania Health Summit 2024 and 2025, strengthening dialogue between communities, policymakers, and development partners.

Youth leadership in response to climate-health challenges

Women’s impact and CHW-linked community health action

Climate & Health Forums

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

  1. Mainstream climate-health integration into all levels of health policy and planning.
  2. Train and empower community health workers, equipping them with tools and inclusion in surveillance systems.
  3. Expand youth-led resilience initiatives, with grants, skills-building, and policymaker engagement.
  4. Support climate-informed farming and nutrition programs that safeguard vulnerable populations during droughts and floods.
  5. Strengthen infrastructure resilience, including clinic fortification, reliable water systems, and climate-responsive referral networks.
  6. Improve data systems to regularly capture and analyze climate-sensitive health outcomes across population groups.
  7. Establish inter-ministerial data-sharing mechanisms to enable coordinated emergency response planning.
Read more

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.

Dar Forum

Dar Forum 2025

Youth and CHWs in focus

Dar Forum session

Interactive session

Engaging youth leaders

Dar Forum panel

Panel discussion

Community health workers share experiences

Dar Forum panel

Participant

400+ stakeholders engaged

Dar Forum

Dar Forum 2025

Youth and CHWs in focus

Key Takeaways and Recommendations

1. Women, youth, and community health workers are central to climate resilience.

Climate and health responses are most effective when driven by those closest to communities, with women and CHWs playing a critical leadership and sustainability role.

2. Climate change must be addressed as a public health issue.

Adaptation and mitigation efforts should explicitly integrate health outcomes, including food security, mental health, and maternal and child health.

3. Community-led, climate-smart solutions deliver scalable impact.

Local actions such as recycling, reforestation, and climate-smart household practices offer practical, cost-effective pathways to improve health and environmental outcomes.

4. Evidence and data are essential for policy and financing decisions.

Strengthening research and community-level data generation is necessary to inform policy, attract climate finance, and guide effective interventions.

5. Sustainable impact requires integration and partnership.

Long-term climate and health outcomes depend on multisectoral collaboration and embedding community-driven initiatives within government systems and development frameworks.

Integrated Advocacy

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