SRHR and Climate Justice:
Advancing a Human Rights-Based Approach
Key Recommendations
Patrick Kinemo, MPharm
Director of Programs (Tanzania)
Pathfinder International
March 15th, 2022
SRHR and Climate Change
Individual management of
timing of pregnancy

Better maternal & child
health, increased education
& improved household
income
Improved
Resilience
Voluntary Family Planning
and
Ability to choose timing &
spacing of pregnancies &
family size
Adaptive
Capacity
Decreased
Vulnerability &
Reduced Risk
Lower fertility
• Changes in age structure
(demographic dividend)
Source: Visualizing SRHR & Climate Change; Adapted from Population Reference Bureau and Worldwatch Institute 2014; PAI 2011
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Recommendations: human-rights based
approach at CSW66 and beyond
1. Implementation of an integrated approach
for Population, Health, and
Environment/Women-Led Climate
Resilience (PHE/WLCR)
2. Implementation of Social Accountability
Mechanisms to give voice to the
communities and improve accountability
Youth participants of Pathfinder’s Endangered Ecosystems of Northern
Tanzania project, 2019.
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Recommendation #1:
Integrated
Population, Health and Environment
Key
Issues
PHE
Elements
•Access to quality
health information and
services
•Improved freshwater
ecosystems management
Outcomes .
•Strengthened
terrestrial resources
• Healthy &
management
Empowered People
•Conduct
• Resilient
•Message
Ecosystems
•Promote
• Economically
health
Secure Communities
•Promote
•Natural resource degradation
•Food insecurity
•Population pressure
•Climate change
•Unmet family health needs
•Limited economic opportunities
•Limited participation of women and
youth in civic engagement
Implementation
Strategies
baselines & scientific surveys
conservation alongside health
dialogue on gender, environment, reproductive
policy advocacy with government
The Tuungane Project (GME):
Ten Years of Tangible Outcomes
11,000
Model Households
3
Model
Villages
28,030
Hectares of community fish
reserves protected
10
150,170
Community fish reserves +
MMNP marked with buoys
16
People provided with
reproductive health resources
42
Girls graduating from
Lagosa Secondary School
20,477
586,794
Farmers trained in climatesmart agricultural practices
Hectares with connectivity
formally protected
4,469,565
500,000
Trees planted with 86%
first-year survival rate
Metric tons of CO2e
sequestered every year
Recommendation #2:
Implementing
Social Accountability
Policymakers
Voice Relationships
Service Contracts
Community
Members
Providers
Client Power
World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for Poor People
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The Community Scorecard
Phase II:
Conducting the
Score Card with
the Community
Phase I:
Planning
and
Preparation
Phase IV: Interface Meeting and Action Planning
Phase IV:
Action Plan
Implementation
and Monitoring
Phase III:
Conducting the
Score Card with
Service
Providers
Repeat cycle
CARE’s Community Score Card Process (5 Phases)
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The Community Scorecard: Theory
of Change
Care’s CSC Theory of Change
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THANK YOU! ASANTE SANA!
For more information contact: Dr. Joseph Komwihangiro, Pathfinder Country Director in Tanzania
jkomwihangiro@pathfinder.org
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