Nanighi Women: Power in Overcoming the Impact of Drought

CARE is working with six pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities in North Eastern Kenya to help them build their resilience to climate change through the Adaptation Learning Programme in Africa. In Nanighi community, near the Tana river, people are most impacted by more frequent and severe droughts and floods.

In June 2011, CARE worked with local journalists and women, elder men and young men from Nanighi community to share their stories about what impacts them most and why, and how they are coping. These digital photo stories are being used for community awareness-raising about climate change impacts; to understand and monitor change through the ALP programme over time; and for advocacy. They are integral to CARE's process of working with communities in setting priorities, and developing and monitoring adaptation strategies.

This video received first place in the Connect4Climate film competition (gender, age 25-35) http://www.connect4climate.org/competition/video-winners
and also placed in the top 10 films of the 4th annual D&C International Film Competition. Learn more about CARE's work by visiting http://www.care.org

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• care
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• girls
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• drought
• climate
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• development
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• agro-pastoralist
• Kenya
• resilience
• Adaptation
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• Africa
• Nanighi
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