The SASI project (Strengthening Adaptive Social Insurance in Cambodia, 2024-2025) is co-implemented, by the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) and GRET, and is funded by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD). It aims at supporting the strategic reflection and operational action of the NSSF to extend Social Health insurance, to rural populations. It is motivated by the recognition of the vulnerability of rural populations to various risks, including poverty, disease, and climate change.
This project includes a contextual analysis of the future impact of climate change on health for the rural populations. It is conducted by the Khmer Earth OBServation (KHEOBS) Laboratory, under the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC) and the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), in collaboration with the Communicable Disease Control Department (CDC) of the Ministry of Health of Cambodia. With the aim of spatially documenting the present and future climate, risk factors and future modelling of certain health impacts, this website offers dynamic mapping to visualise and query this spatial information, in two directories:
- Access to health facilities: precise spatial modelling of travel times to the nearest health facility, from any location in Cambodia, at a scale of 10 metres. The model takes into account means of transport, road types, land use, topography and flood risk;
- Climate change and health: maps of present and future climate variables and vulnerability factors or certain known health indicators.
