District Level Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment of Mizoram: Health Sectors was done to rank and categorised different districts of Mizoram based on their vulnerability indices and drivers of vulnerability were identified.

Approach/Methodology adopted

Top down assessment using secondary data collected from various sources were used. Data were collected from Health and Family Welfare Department, Government of Mizoram. The study was done by taking current vulnerability as a function of sensitivity and adaptive capacity. Six indicators belonging to a category of health and demographic characters were selected for the assessment. Study was done with assigning unequal weights to indicators. Unequal weights were assigned based on stakeholder and expert consultations.  Districts were rank and categorized based on their calculated vulnerability indices. The selected indicators used for the assessment are Malaria (API rate) per 1000 persons, Dengue (No of Cases per population), Scrub Typhus (No of cases per population), No of Hospitals/PHC/CHC etc per population, No of Doctors/Nurse/Health Workers etc per population and Infant Mortality Rate.

Significant results brought out as a part of the project

District level vulnerability maps of Mizoram were generated for vulnerability ranking and vulnerability categories. The drivers of vulnerability were identified for the current scenario.

The results of the assessment can be downloaded here.