Adapting to a Changing Environment

Kigwa Future Centre

Nairobi, Kenia

An Overview Of Our Solution

Who is this solution impacting?
Ecosistema
Forests
Forests
Freshwater
Freshwater
Oceans
Oceans/Coasts
Urban Built Environment
Urban/Built Environment
Tipo de comunidad
Urban
Urban
Suburban
Suburban
Rural
Rural
Additional Information
  • Population Impacted:
  • Continent: Africa
General Info

Dirección

P.O Box 43314-00100, Nairobi
Nairobi
Kenia

Correo electrónico

jaredabich@gmail.com
Problem

Población impactada

155,666 people

Size

1,055 km�

Ocupaciones principales

Farming, Fishing, Trading and Quarrying

Recursos locales de los que depende la comunidad y con qué propósito

Land for farming, Lake for fishing, Crops and other goods for trading,

Amenazas locales a los recursos

Land slides, floods and soil erosion,

Riesgos climáticos

Tree cutting and charcoal burning

Nivel de sensibilidad

There will always lack of food security due to these unprintable climate changes as farmers may not know the correct time to plant and when to start harvesting because there is no style in rainfall pattern. But if the appropriate measures are taken into consideration and implemented, such threats will be done away with.

Nivel de capacidad adaptativa

After the full implementation, the community will be far much protected in terms of these threats because of the appropriate measures which have been and will be put in place with the organization.
Solution

We have managed to train the community on; 1) Need to environment protection and conservation, 2) Proper methods of farming to control soil erosion and also to increase their farming output to ensure food security. 3) Methods of using clean energy e.g we managed to design 600 samples of biomass stoves which worked successfully and we are in the event of looking for funds to enable us implement a full project where we target each household to have at least one biomass stove. 4) We have also planted 50,000 trees and we are in the event of planting others. 5) Good methods of waste disposal especially non biodegradable materials e.g plastics which should not be thrown away, burnt nor burred but should be recycled. 6) Need to conserve our wild life including wild animals and birds.

Results

Costos ecológicos

1) Trainings $ 5,000 2) Tree planting $ 8,000 3) Monitoring and evaluation $ 6,000

Beneficio ecológico

Increased fish production, food production and income levels in Suba District and Nyanza region.

Indicadores económicos utilizados para medir el beneficio

There has been reduced cases of land slides and floods Clean energy due to improved stoves name 'jiko ya kisasa' in Kiswahili.

Costo comunitario/social

The struggle between the people on the areas they thought there are adequate fish within the lake or farming areas which did well.

Beneficio comunitario/social

No more struggling and there are improved both food and fish productions in all the areas within the region. There is also community participation in environment conservation and reduced cases of charcoal burning.

Indicadores comunitarios/sociales utilizados para medir el beneficio

100 to 200 different people attending different meetings organized by the organization in the organization.

Costo económico

We conduct different trainings at different locations and the annual cost on this is $ 5,000

Beneficio económico

This is realized through other extra activities e.g singing, modelling, beauty contests among others

Indicadores ecológicos utilizados para medir el beneficio

There has been improved food production and reduced cases of diseases.

What were/are the challenges your community faced in implementing this solution?

1. At first, there was lack of information on these remedies until we involved the experts. 2) Lack of adequate funds and resources such as tools and human capital. This has never been enough but we try through membership contributions and fund raising from well wishers. 3) Hostility of some people in the community due to resistant to new ideas but we were saved by the intervention of the administration Chiefs and District officers

Action

Describa el proceso basado en la comunidad utilizado para desarrollar la solución, incluidas las herramientas y los procesos utilizados.

Through the organizational assessments, we identified the following risks and threats: i) Soil erosion and floods, ii) Killings of wild animals through poaching, iii) Dirty atmosphere due to burning of unclean materials e.g plastic and polythene bags. iv) Poor methods of planting. v) Tree cutting and charcoal burning. All of these studies we do regularly depending on the relevant project we want to implement. The implementation is done during the project period and also post implementation procedures are carried out to ensure long term solution to such threats. We also make sure that we fully involve the community in every decision making since they are the primary beneficiary of every activity/project that we conduct.

Peligro climático de preocupación

Land slides

¿Cómo reduce su solución la exposición y amortigua/protege el ecosistema afectado?

Training-It helps in involving the community in environmental conservation Tree planting-Making the soil firm to reduce erosion and land slides

How has your solution increased the capacity of the ecosystem to adapt to potential climate changes?

The community are now aware of the clean gas emulsion and and and they are aware of the need to protect our ecosystem.

¿Cómo reduce su solución la exposición y amortigua/protege a las comunidades afectadas?

Now there is proper use and utilization of land, lakes, rivers and other natural resources which in turn benefit the community a lot.

¿Cómo su solución reduce la sensibilidad de las comunidades afectadas?

There has been a proper and timely coordination between the farmers, fishermen and the traders due to adequacy in all the products.

¿Cómo ha aumentado su solución la capacidad de las comunidades locales para adaptarse a posibles cambios climáticos?

The community is now the ambassador of their own environment and appropriate disciplinary measures are taken to any one trying to interfere.

Scale

¿Se puede replicar esta solución en otros lugares?

Yes it can.It only require proper planning and a professional approach to make sure that the results reflect the budgeted and planned activities. This is innovative since it is a reflection of what is happening on the ground and it is implemented by the local community.

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