Global Center on Climate Change and Water Energy Food Health Systems - Community Engagement Core

社区参与核心摘要 社区参与核心（CEC）将是中心活动的核心部分，并将与 研究项目团队，以及行政和数据服务核心，以确保公平和道德 社区利益攸关方参与实施拟议的干预措施。探索性 全球气候变化和水能源食品健康系统中心（GC3WEFH） 将针对弱势社区（即，农业村庄和难民营）生活在阿兹拉克盆地地区， 由于气候变化的影响，约旦的水资源正在受到严重影响。的 我们所针对的农村农业社区遭受贫困，并处于与许多非洲国家类似的地缘政治状况。 受气候变化影响最大的中低收入国家。CEC的目标是 不仅方便进入这些社区，而且让当地居民参与解决方案的制定， 干预措施将满足目标社区的实际需要， 健康成果。重要的是，社区将成为拟议的 研究和成果评价。为了实现这一目标，并评估水和卫生问题， 水能源食品健康（WEFH）的关系，CEC将与七个不同的当地约旦 组织参与的多个阶段，包括成立利益攸关方咨询委员会和使用 以社区为基础的参与性研究，以实现以下具体目标：1）制定推广计划， 将社区合作伙伴聚集在中心的保护伞下工作。2)启动多方向连接 农民、青年、难民以及政府官员社区之间的交流和教育 与中心的研究人员，专注于气候变化的科学背景及其直接和间接的健康 影响。这将促进目标社区与气候变化有关的数据扫盲。3)翻译 从公开的数据和中心的研究项目组成部分转化为有意义的应用思想， 以及社区可以采取的行动。4)实施可行的政策和干预措施 由科学发现驱动，由社区需求发起。5)评估这些影响 在社区参与程度、可行行动和知识提升方面的活动和行动 问题和潜在的解决方案。与社区的成功接触和实现 这些目标将有助于激励和增强社区利益攸关方使用数据分析和绘图的能力 帮助应对重大区域环境挑战的工具，同时还建立了一个水资源网络， 倡导者将致力于让更广泛的社区参与GC3WEFH未来开展的研究。

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CORE ABSTRACT The Community Engagement Core (CEC) will be a central part of Center activities and will work closely with the Research Project team, and the Administrative and Data Services cores to ensure equitable and ethical involvement of community stakeholders in the implementation of the proposed interventions. The exploratory efforts of the proposed Global Center on Climate Change and Water Energy Food Health Systems (GC3WEFH) will target vulnerable communities (i.e., farming villages and refugee camps) living in the Azraq Basin region of Jordan that are experiencing drastic impacts on their water resources due to the effects of climate change. The rural agricultural communities we target suffer from poverty and are in a similar geopolitical situation as many of the low-to-middle income countries that will be impacted the most by climate change. The goal of the CEC is to not only facilitate access to these communities, but to involve local residents in the development of solutions so that interventions will meet the actual needs of targeted communities and be more likely to succeed in improving health outcomes. Importantly, communities will be partners, rather than just participants, in the proposed research and the evaluation of outcomes. To accomplish this goal and evaluate water and sanitation issues at the Water Energy Food Health (WEFH) nexus, the CEC will work with seven different local Jordanian organizations in multiple stages of engagement, including formation of a stakeholders’ advisory board and use community-based participatory research to pursue the following specific aims: 1) Establish an outreach plan to bring community partners together to work under the umbrella of the Center. 2) Initiate multidirectional engaged communication and education between the communities of farmers, youth, refugees, as well as public officials with Center researchers, focused on the scientific background of climate change and its direct and indirect health impacts. This will advance data literacy in the target communities as they relate to climate change. 3) Translate findings from publicly available data and the Center’s research project component into meaningful applied ideas, interventions, and actions that the community can implement. 4) Implement feasible policies and interventions driven by the scientific findings and initiated by the needs of the community. 5) Evaluate the impacts of these activities and actions in terms of the level of community engagement, feasible actions, and elevated knowledge about the problem and potential solutions. Successful engagement with the community and achievement of these aims will serve to galvanize and empower community stakeholders in using data analysis and mapping tools to help address significant regional environmental challenges, while also creating a network of water advocates who will serve to engage the wider community for future research undertaken by the GC3WEFH.