National Tribal Resilience Data Workgroup (NTRDW) Meeting, March 13, 2024

Over the past several years, the Pala Band of Mission Indians’ Tribal Climate Health Project (TCHP) has leveraged funding from EPA, BIA, and CDC for capacity building and dataset development initiatives designed to make it easier for Tribes to address unique their health and other climate vulnerabilities using both western science and traditional knowledge. Through our capacity building work, we quickly recognized that trainings would not be enough to help under-resourced US Tribes manage the overwhelming burden of data gathering and fact finding needed to make adaptation and resilience decisions. To help Tribes move forward more easily from planning to action, the program has worked to lower the burden of climate information fact-finding by optimizing access to meaningful and readily usable external data to support Tribal adaptation planning and supplemental monitoring needs. The program developed a customizable Excel-based tool called the Exposures, Impacts, and Strategies Inventory (EISI) tool, and made it available for free download so Tribes don’t have to start from scratch when beginning their adaptation planning processes.

This is a recording of the 23rd meeting of the National Tribal Resilience Data Workgroup (NTRDW), hosted by the Tribal Climate Health Project on March 13, 2024. The purpose of these meetings is to connect dozens of national health and climate data experts to exchange knowledge and advance solutions to address tribal climate adaptation and resilience data needs.