Severe heat wave grips India: Authorities can draw on insights from Ahmedabad experience CDKN's Mihir Bhatt reports from Ahmedabad, in India's current heat wave zone - and reflects on how learning from CDKN's innovative partnership project in Ahmedabad could help save lives all over again.

Report : Ahmedabad Heat Action Plan 2014 This publication, the 2014 Heat Action Plan is an updated version of the first comprehensive early warning system and preparedness plan for extreme heat events in India launched in Ahmedabad last year. The Plan creates immediate and longer-term actions to increase preparedness, information-sharing, and response coordination to reduce the health impacts of extreme heat on vulnerable populations.

Policy Brief : Heat-Related Mortality in India Associated with the 2010 Ahmedabad Heat Wave The purpose of this study, Heat-Related Mortality in India: Excess All-Cause Mortality Associated with the 2010 Ahmedabad Heat Wave, is to characterize the heat wave impact and assess the associated excess mortality as a result of Ahmedabad's 2010 heatwave.

Report : Ahmedabad Heat Action Plan 2013: Guide to extreme heat planning in Ahmedabad, India Ahmedabad's 2013 Heat Action Plan is the first comprehensive early warning system and preparedness plan for extreme heat events in India. The Plan creates immediate and longer term actions to increase preparedness, information sharing, and response coordination to reduce the health impacts of extreme heat on vulnerable populations.

Policy Brief : Rising Temperatures, Deadly Threat: Recommendations for Slum Communities in Ahmedabad This paper, Rising Temperatures, Deadly Threat: Recommendations for Slum Communities in Ahmedabad, looks at how, in the city of Ahmedabad, slum communities have greater exposure to extreme heat, and residents are more susceptible to its negative health effects.

Policy Brief : Rising Temperatures, Deadly Threat: Recommendations to Prepare Outdoor Workers in Ahmedabad This report, Rising Temperatures, Deadly Threat: Recommendations to Prepare Outdoor Workers in Ahmedabad, looks at the vulnerability of outdoor workers to extreme heat, examining construction workers' perception of, and vulnerability to, extreme heat exposure.

Policy Brief : Rising Temperatures, Deadly Threat: Recommendations for Health Professionals in Ahmedabad This report, Rising Temperatures, Deadly Threat: Recommendations for Health Professionals in Ahmedabad, suggests that urban health centers and link workers could be key to addressing heat vulnerability on the local level because of their direct access to the public and the long-term relationship of trust they have built.

Policy Brief : Rising Temperatures, Deadly Threat: Recommendations for Ahmedabad’s Government Officials This paper, Rising Temperatures, Deadly Threat: Recommendations for Ahmedabad’s Government Officials, makes recommendations to Ahmedebad's Government officials, on the current or potential disaster relief and adaption initiatives in Ahmedebad, inlcuding initiatives at a central government level, state government level and makes policy recommendations for building resilience to extreme heat in Ahmedebad.

Inside story : Addressing heat-related health risks in urban India: Ahmedabad’s Heat Action Plan This report looks at how the local community of Ahmedabad in Western India is preparing for the increasingly extreme heat of the city, through an early warning system and heat preparedness plan. Ahmedabad is the first city in South Asia to comprehensively address the health threats of extreme heat.

With temperatures rising, major Indian city moves closer to releasing life-saving heat action plan Anjali Jaiswal and Meredith Connolly tell us how the Ahmedabad government is taking steps to protect its 7 million residents with a new Heat Action Plan.