GCRF_NF452 Climate Change & COVID-19 (CCC19): Achieving a Sustainable and Equitable Recovery in Malawi and Rwanda

我们对新冠肺炎大流行的大部分应对措施都集中在受影响国家和人民的迫切需要及其迅速经济复苏上。在气候变化的影响如今因新冠肺炎而雪上加霜的发展中国家，人们非常希望让这种复苏变得可持续和公平。具体地说，我们需要了解新冠肺炎如何影响当地人民抵御干旱、洪水和海平面上升的能力，以及这些国家适应和缓解气候变化的前景。然而，关于如何实现这一点的数据和知识是缺乏的。该项目将邀请卢旺达和马拉维的当地社区成员以及来自政府、发展、私营部门和社区组织的从业人员--这两个国家同时受到疫情和气候变化的影响--参加关于这一主题的访谈、重点小组和调查。来自当地社区的参与者还将被要求制作他们在新冠肺炎和气候变化方面的经历的视频故事，以便让人们看到这两场危机，并确保两国政府最高层都能听到当地的声音。这项研究的结果将为马拉维和卢旺达负责卫生、气候变化和环境的部委(主要项目合作伙伴)的工作提供信息，这将通过一系列产品和活动实现，包括报告、期刊文章、纪录片、互动网站和案例研究传单。我们将同时举办两个由英国在线参与的项目结束研讨会，在此期间，所有利益攸关方将能够讨论和交流他们的经验，并为政策制定提供信息。该项目的最终目的是确保这些国家在新冠肺炎之后规划和实施恢复的方式在环境上可持续、社会公平，这样就不会损害气候或最脆弱的人群。

Most of our responses to the COVID-19 pandemic are focused on the immediate needs of affected countries and populations and their swift economic recovery. In developing countries, where the effects of climate change are now made even worse by COVID-19, there is a lot of appetite for making this recovery sustainable and equitable. Specifically, we need to understand how COVID-19 has affected local people's ability to withstand droughts, floods and sea-level rise and the prospects for adapting to and mitigating climate change in these countries. However, the data and knowledge on how to achieve this are lacking. This project will invite local community members as well as practitioners from government, development, private sector and community-based organizations in Rwanda and Malawi - two countries simultaneously affected by the pandemic and climate change - to participate in interviews, focus groups and surveys on this topic. Participants from local communities will also be asked to produce video stories of their experiences of COVID-19 and climate change in order to put a human face on both crises and ensure local voices are heard at the highest levels of government in both countries. The findings of this research will inform the work of the Malawian and Rwandan ministries responsible for health, climate change and environment (key project partners).This will be achieved through a range of products and events, including reports, journal articles, a documentary, an interactive website and case-study leaflets. We will hold two simultaneous end-of-project workshops with online participation from the UK, during which all stakeholders will be able to discuss and exchange their experiences and inform policy development. The project's ultimate aim is to ensure that the way these countries plan and carry out their recovery after COVID-19 is environmentally sustainable and socially equitable, so that it does not harm the climate or the most vulnerable people.