Dear Extreme Heat Cooler!

Everyone has to make efforts to cool our planet. Everyone including you.

The All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) focuses on mitigating the impacts of extreme heat, especially in vulnerable communities. AIDMI collaborates with local governments, NGOs, and communities to develop and implement heat action plans. These plans include early warning systems, public awareness campaigns, and capacity-building activities. AIDMI also conducts research on heat-related health risks and promotes the use of heat-resistant infrastructure. Through its initiatives, AIDMI aims to reduce heat-related mortality and morbidity, improve community resilience, and advocate for policies that address the challenges posed by extreme heat in India.

Sharing the knowledge that comes out of actions around extreme heat is one way to move closer to cooling. With this in mind, AIDMI shares the following research to better evaluate extreme heat projects and programmes.

A. Evaluating Extreme Heat Projects and Programs: Key Focus Areas (click here)

B. Research and Innovation Agendas for Evaluating Extreme Heat Projects and Initiatives in India (click here)

C. Southasiadisastersnet

1. Evaluating Extreme Heat Projects and Programmes: Key Lessons, Southasiadisasters.net issue No. 214, October 2024. https://aidmi.org/evaluating-extreme-heat-projects-and-programmes-key-lessons/
2. Accelerating Extreme Heat Responses: Perspectives from India, Southasiadisasters.net issue No. 213, August 2024. https://aidmi.org/accelerating-extreme-heat-responses-perspectives-from-india/
3. Extreme Heat Adaptation and Mitigation Programming: Lessons from the Affected Population, Southasiadisasters.net issue No. 212, July 2024. https://aidmi.org/extreme-heat-adaptation-and-mitigation-programming-lessons-from-the-affected-population/
4. Heatwave Deaths Are Avoidable, Southasiadisasters.net issue No. 210, May 2024. https://aidmi.org/heatwave-deaths-are-avoidable/
5. Urgency of Heatwave Risk Management, Southasiadisasters.net, Issue No. 209, March 2024. https://aidmi.org/urgency-of-heatwave-risk-management/
6. Building Adaptation and Resilience to Heatwaves, Southasiadisasters.net Issue No. 204, January 2023. https://aidmi.org/building-adaptation-and-resilience-to-heat-waves1/
7. Rising Risk of Heatwaves in Asia, Southasiadisasters.net, issue No. 174, October 2018 https://aidmi.org/rising-risk-of-heat-waves-in-india/

D. Blogs

1. Planning for Extreme Heat: Lessons and Recommendations for South Asia, Blog, HOISA, July 2024.
   https://aidmi.org/blog/planning-for-extreme-heat-lessons-and-recommendations-for-south-asia/
2. Are we learning from the past? Cooling lessons from India’s extreme heat, Blog, IDS, May 2024. https://aidmi.org/are-we-learning-from-the-past-cooling-lessons-from-indias-extreme-heat/
3. Observing Heatwaves in Light of Adaptation and Mitigation, Blog, HOISA, May 2023. https://www.hoisa.org/post/observing-heatwaves-in-light-of-adaptation-and-mitigation
4. The Future of Heatwaves in South Asia, Blog, HOISA, April 2023. https://www.hoisa.org/post/future-of-heatwaves-in-south-asoa
5. Observing Heat Waves Differently, Blog, HOISA, April 2023. https://www.hoisa.org/post/observing-heat-waves-differently

E. Knowledge Products

1. Building resilience for cotton farmers in India: evidence from Gujarat and Maharashtra. IIED, London. Report Published by IIED, September 2024.https://www.iied.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/2024-09/22481IIED.pdf.
2. Guidelines: Precautions to be Observed by Schools to Combat the Ill-effects of the Heatwave (in Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Panjabi, and English languages), AIDMI, April 2024. https://aidmi.org/heatwave-preparedness/
3. Local Heatwave Action Planning, Brochure, AIDMI, December 2023. https://aidmi.org/local-heat-wave-action-planning/
4. Advisory for Protection Against Expected Heatwave 2023 (in Seven languages), AIDMI, March 2023. https://aidmi.org/advisory-for-protection-against-expected-heat-wave/
5. Adapting Humanitarian Action to the Effects of Climate Change: An ALNAP Lessons Paper, https://aidmi.org/heatwaves-essential-lessons-for-humanitarian-responders/
6. Urban Resilience in South Asia Experience Learning Series No. 77, March 2021. https://aidmi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Urban-Resilience-in-South-Asia.pdf

The above is an essential resources for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners are dedicated to inclusive, scalable, and equitable humanitarian system-wide solutions for one of the most urgent climate challenges of our time.

Let us know what we can do for you to take ahead this agenda in South Asia. How can we jointly take these ideas to more individuals and institutions? We will wait for your response till December 31, 2024 at knowingrisk@aidmi.org. Thank you so much.