Community engagement, built into CSID research from the start, not added at the end.
Climate Sensitive Infectious Disease research is often run at a high scientific level, without the communities who face its direct impact. This toolkit gives researchers practical resources and guidance to change that, from project design through to evaluation.
Research shapes communities. Communities should shape research.
Involving communities from the earliest stages of project design helps shape interventions in ways that benefit both CSID professionals and the people who face the impact directly, whether the initiative involves research, policy, or the development of digital tools.
Better science
Communities often see risks, patterns, and practical barriers that a purely scientific lens misses. Engagement closes that gap early, when it is cheapest to act on.
Stronger trust
CSID research often returns to the same communities over time. Genuine engagement protects that relationship for the studies that come after this one.
Fewer blind spots
Interventions designed without community input tend to underperform in the field. Early engagement surfaces the constraints that matter before they cause failure.
Four planning stages, one interactive checklist.
The toolkit groups its resources into Planning Guidance, Engagement Frameworks, Case Examples, and Templates. Alongside those documents sits an interactive Community Engagement Checklist that walks a research team through Project Design, Stakeholder Identification, Engagement Planning, Implementation, and Feedback and Evaluation.
In this toolkit
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Planning Guidance
Step by step guidance for building engagement into a CSID study from day one.
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Engagement Frameworks
Structured approaches for mapping stakeholders and planning engagement activities.
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Case Examples
Real world illustrations of engagement done well, and lessons from where it fell short.
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Templates
Ready to adapt documents for consent, briefing, and engagement planning.
Work through five planning stages at your own pace. Tick off actions as your team completes them, add notes against each item, and export a clean printable record for your project file. Your progress is saved automatically on this device.