This toolkit is designed to support decision makers to measure, understand, strengthen and sustain extreme heat risk governance. As a tool supporting integrated approaches, it is intended to be applicable at different scales and in and among multiple sectors. While the preliminary focus has been at the national level, the toolkit has been designed to be applied and further developed at other geographic scales and in other jurisdictions. Rather than prescribing a one-size-fits-all solution, the toolkit provides a flexible framework and set of tools that governments and partners can adapt to their own contexts.

The toolkit includes three core tools that decision makers can apply directly:

• Tool 1: Assess the Maturity of your Extreme Heat Risk Governance enables decision makers to systematically evaluate the current state of their extreme heat risk governance systems.
• Tool 2: Operationalise Extreme Heat Risk Governance guides decision makers in fostering cross-sectoral coordination, information-sharing and institutional capacity.
• Tool 3: Plan for Heat Action guides decision makers in identifying the core components of effective Heat Action Plans (HAPs), alongside good practices and strategies. (from the announcement.)