What do you get when you ask impacted communities directly how they are impacted by climate change, and what it means for their health, livelihood, and community?
NetHope’s Climate Intersections Program conducted a Climate Voices pilot project in Yumbe District, Uganda, where we worked with Ushahidi and the Yumbe GBV Reduction Network (YUGNET) to collect the voices of community members, with a view to amplifying them and creating a dataset of voices that will offer evidence of the repercussions of climate shocks and the efficacy of various mitigating policies and practices implemented, and enable community led and community informed decision making on measures to be taken locally for adaptation and resilience building.
We found how community members describe their lived experience of climate change: “There has been a significant change in temperature and rainfall patterns in recent years compared to the past”; “changes in weather patterns include high temperatures, low rainfall, and long droughts”. And we heard what the impact is: “There is immense suffering as hunger has enveloped us wholly due to less harvests”, “meeting children’s fees will become hard since Education has become very expensive. Domestic violence. Family Breakages. Poor Health.”
Read how we ran this pilot project, what we learned about approaches to capture community voices, how we are applying the learnings in our next Climate Voices project in Nigeria, and what we will do to support communities in developing effective plans to increase their climate resilience and adapt to climate change. In addition, have a look at the accompanying report summarizing our analysis of the data collected..
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