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This project aims to identify sustainable and innovative solutions for urban challenges while considering One Health systems and infrastructure. By collaborating with stakeholders including local government agencies, civil society organizations, NGOs and implementing partners, and the community, the project will establish a citizens' forum and utilize citizen science for knowledge contributions, as well as assess and evaluate contextually relevant and efficient water circularity systems along with waste management solutions. The project culminates in a publicly accessible digital resource called the Surveillance Dashboard, which provides real-time data for disease surveillance and related capacity-building tools for relevant stakeholders focusing on water circularity, flood alerts, and waste management. This project seeks to create an informed and prepared governance system and establish a network that fosters improved health outcomes and environmental sustainability in urban areas.

This project aims to design models for incentivizing bioresource conservation and ecosystem restoration in rural communities through local opportunities for socio-economically viable ecosystem stewardship. By developing these models, we will build capacity for decision-makers from local to national levels for ecosystem stewardship, identify institutional barriers to ecosystem stewardship from local to national levels, perform research on ecosystem services and their valuation, and develop a stewardship “toolkit” for livelihood incentivization of ecosystem restoration and bioresource conservation. The project will culminate with a publicly accessible digital platform  that provides data and incentivization strategies for all stakeholders.