Guidance

Health-Care facility Solar Electrification for Climate-Resilient and Environmentally Sustainable Health-Care Facilities

Terry Hart, Ranjit Dhiman, Michelle Seidel

The objective of this guide is to provide a guidance document for use by UNICEF and governments that will help guide the planning, implementation and later operation of solar electrification systems in primary health-care facilities.

Acknowledging the initial success of the UNICEF solarization initiatives provides guidance to scale up solar photovoltaic (PV) electrification services in poorly or non-electrified health-care facilities to make a significant impact at the technological, environmental, business innovation and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) levels.

Authors

Languages

  • English

Publication year

2023

Type

Guidance

Categories

  • Supply chain & logistics

Tags

  • Climate impact
  • EQUIP
  • Solar
  • Sustainability

Fundamental infrastructure and Management

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Decommissioning and safe disposal of cold chain equipmentUNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO)2018GuidanceEnglish
Cold chain equipment and dry store temperature mapping toolWorld Health Organization (WHO)2021ToolEnglish
How to temperature map cold chain equipment and storage areas, 2nd edWorld Health Organization (WHO)2022ToolEnglish
Cold Chain Temperature Data Job AidJSI, PATH, VillageReach, New Horizons2025GuidanceEnglish
Total Cost of Ownership Tool for Cold Chain EquipmentPATH2016ToolEnglish
Cold chain equipment inventory guidelines: Improving the quality and accuracy of national cold chain equipment inventory dataVillageReach, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, PATH2020GuidanceEnglish, French
Guidance on selecting, commissioning and using freeze-preventative vaccine carriersWorld Health Organization (WHO)2021GuidanceArabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
Using freeze-preventive cold boxes in rural Nepal: A study of equipment performance, acceptability, system fit, and costSandeep Kumar, Pat Lennon, Surendra Uranw2024Journal articleEnglish
Evaluating potential program cost savings with a single-dose HPV vaccination schedule: a modeling study.Rose Slavkosky, Mercy Mvundura, Frédéric Debellut, Teddy Naddumba2024Journal articleEnglish
Temperature monitoring study: a fully documented process to detect weaknesses in the supply chainWorld Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF2018GuidanceEnglish
Guidance on sustainable health-care waste management Michelle Seidel, Ranjit Dhiman, Terry Hart2023GuidanceEnglish
Guidance on the selection of green and safe healthcare waste treatment technologyRidwan Gustiana, Isabelle Cantin, Ranjit Dhiman, Sophie De Fries, Martin Bjerregaard, Lindsay Marie Denny2025GuidanceEnglish
NATIONAL HEALTH CARE WASTE MANAGEMENT STRATEGYRanjit Dhiman, Ute Pieper, Michelle Seidel2025GuidanceEnglish
Health-Care facility Solar Electrification for Climate-Resilient and Environmentally Sustainable Health-Care FacilitiesTerry Hart, Ranjit Dhiman, Michelle Seidel2023GuidanceEnglish

Gavi-iSC-infrastructure

TitleAuthorYearTypeLanguage
Decommissioning and safe disposal of cold chain equipmentUNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO)2018GuidanceEnglish
Cold chain equipment and dry store temperature mapping toolWorld Health Organization (WHO)2021ToolEnglish
How to temperature map cold chain equipment and storage areas, 2nd edWorld Health Organization (WHO)2022ToolEnglish
Temperature monitoring study: a fully documented process to detect weaknesses in the supply chainWorld Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF2018GuidanceEnglish
Cold Chain Temperature Data Job AidJSI, PATH, VillageReach, New Horizons2025GuidanceEnglish
Guidance on sustainable health-care waste management Michelle Seidel, Ranjit Dhiman, Terry Hart2023GuidanceEnglish
Guidance on the selection of green and safe healthcare waste treatment technologyRidwan Gustiana, Isabelle Cantin, Ranjit Dhiman, Sophie De Fries, Martin Bjerregaard, Lindsay Marie Denny2025GuidanceEnglish
NATIONAL HEALTH CARE WASTE MANAGEMENT STRATEGYRanjit Dhiman, Ute Pieper, Michelle Seidel2025GuidanceEnglish
Health-Care facility Solar Electrification for Climate-Resilient and Environmentally Sustainable Health-Care FacilitiesTerry Hart, Ranjit Dhiman, Michelle Seidel2023GuidanceEnglish

Gavi-iSC-infrastructure-FR

TitleAuthorYearTypeLanguage
Decommissioning and safe disposal of cold chain equipmentUNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO)2018GuidanceEnglish
Cold chain equipment and dry store temperature mapping toolWorld Health Organization (WHO)2021ToolEnglish
How to temperature map cold chain equipment and storage areas, 2nd edWorld Health Organization (WHO)2022ToolEnglish
Temperature monitoring study: a fully documented process to detect weaknesses in the supply chainWorld Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF2018GuidanceEnglish
Cold Chain Temperature Data Job AidJSI, PATH, VillageReach, New Horizons2025GuidanceEnglish
Guidance on sustainable health-care waste management Michelle Seidel, Ranjit Dhiman, Terry Hart2023GuidanceEnglish
Guidance on the selection of green and safe healthcare waste treatment technologyRidwan Gustiana, Isabelle Cantin, Ranjit Dhiman, Sophie De Fries, Martin Bjerregaard, Lindsay Marie Denny2025GuidanceEnglish
NATIONAL HEALTH CARE WASTE MANAGEMENT STRATEGYRanjit Dhiman, Ute Pieper, Michelle Seidel2025GuidanceEnglish
Health-Care facility Solar Electrification for Climate-Resilient and Environmentally Sustainable Health-Care FacilitiesTerry Hart, Ranjit Dhiman, Michelle Seidel2023GuidanceEnglish

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