Community Health Impact Assessment Toolkit

This toolkit is intended to guide grassroots and community oriented organisations through a series of exercises to create their own CHIA.

• More About this Toolkit

  This justice-led toolkit is designed to support grassroots community groups co-producing a community informed Health Impact Assessment (HIA).

  This toolkit is designed to be used by grassroots organisations without the interference of domineering authorities. This is to give space and time for people to imagine a way something could be done, rather than being shoehorned into what’s permitted.

  As a toolkit it provides a framework for going on a journey of co-production. There are different stages to the process, encouraging points of reflection, research, and engagement with different people, organisations and stakeholders. The framework is designed to ensure a healthy amount of time and space is given so that democracy, equity, and lived experience sit at the heart of the outcome.

It has been modelled on the co-design process used by Centric Lab and Clean Air for Southall & Hayes who developed their own CHIA in 2023.

• Who Are We?

  Centric Lab, a research lab prototyping ways to use health-based scientific evidence to support justice movements, surface and socialise non-western epistemologies and create language to articulate the injustices felt by many communities in our health.

  Clean Air Southall & Hayes, a grassroots organisation from Southall, west London advocating for the right to breathe clean air against the systemic polluters enabled by insufficient policy.

  Our experience has been that the trickle-down nature of turning NGO guidance into local government policy has resulted in vested interests influencing the approach and outcomes of such guidance. The current HIA methodology fails to recognise the susceptibility of communities who have experienced chronic, multi- generational and disproportionate exposure to physiological and psychological stressors from the places where we live and work and our histories as marginalised and racialised people.

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