Adapting to a Changing Environment

Kigwa Future Centre

Nairobi, Kenya

An Overview Of Our Solution

Who is this solution impacting?
Ekosistem
Forests
Forests
Freshwater
Freshwater
Oceans
Oceans/Coasts
Urban Built Environment
Urban/Built Environment
Tipe Komunitas
Urban
Urban
Suburban
Suburban
Rural
Rural
Additional Information
  • Population Impacted:
  • Continent: Africa
General Info

Alamat

P.O Box 43314-00100, Nairobi
Nairobi
Kenya

Surel

jaredabich@gmail.com
Problem

Populasi terkena dampak

155,666 people

Size

1,055 km�

Pekerjaan Utama

Farming, Fishing, Trading and Quarrying

Sumber daya lokal tempat komunitas bergantung, dan untuk tujuan apa

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

Ancaman lokal terhadap sumber daya

Land slides, floods and soil erosion,

Bahaya Iklim

Tree cutting and charcoal burning

Tingkat sensitivitas

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.

Tingkat kapasitas adaptif

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

Biaya Ekologis

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

Manfaat Ekologis

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

Indikator Ekonomi yang digunakan untuk mengukur manfaat

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

Biaya Komunitas/Sosial

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

Manfaat Komunitas/Sosial

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.

Indikator Komunitas/Sosial yang digunakan untuk mengukur manfaat

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

Biaya Ekonomi

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

Manfaat Ekonomi

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

Indikator Ekologis yang digunakan untuk mengukur manfaat

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

Jelaskan proses berbasis komunitas yang digunakan untuk mengembangkan solusi termasuk alat dan proses yang digunakan

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.

Bahaya iklim yang menjadi perhatian

Land slides

Bagaimana solusi Anda mengurangi keterpaparan dan menyangga/melindungi ekosistem yang terkena dampak?

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.

Bagaimana solusi Anda mengurangi keterpaparan dan menyangga/melindungi masyarakat yang terkena dampak?

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

Bagaimana solusi Anda mengurangi sensitivitas masyarakat yang terkena dampak?

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

Bagaimana solusi Anda meningkatkan kapasitas masyarakat lokal untuk beradaptasi dengan potensi perubahan iklim?

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

Scale

Bisakah solusi ini direplikasi di tempat lain?

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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