Africa Climate Week 2023: Response, recovery and resilience - dryland communities managing climate shocks
Synopsis
As dryland communities in Eastern Africa and the Horn of Africa look ahead after undergoing one of the worst droughts in recent history, this event organised by the Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action at the Africa Climate Week (ACW23) Action Hub brings together voices of various community members from the Kenya-Somalia-Ethiopia triangle to spotlight and illustrate the positive ways that affected communities responded to and are recovering from the recent drought, as well as the ways they seek to build resilience against future climate and environmental shocks.
Taking place in parallel to the Africa Climate Summit 2023 at the ACW23 Action Hub, this side event differs from traditional discussion panels and keynote speeches by centring on a journey acted out, illustrated and voiced by people close to the situation. Incorporating powerful images and diverse voices of Jameel Observatory partners and community members in drylands, the event aims to engage audiences and provide inspiration by showing what the three R’s—Response, Recovery, Resilience—actually look like at community levels, and how they can be realised.
Participants
Guyo Malicha Roba
Tahira Mohamed
Organisers
Partners
With representatives from
About the event
According to the Global Centre on Adaptation, achieving transformational change in ‘climate-adapted drylands’ in Africa requires, among others, that local initiatives are empowered, local market links and capacities are reinforced, local voice and agency is strengthened and support is provided to facilitate documentation and exchange of local practices. The Jameel Observatory's interactions with community elders reinforce such priorities.
As dryland communities in Eastern Africa and the Horn of Africa look ahead after undergoing one of the worst droughts in recent history, this event organised by the Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action during the UN regional Africa Climate Week (ACW23) brings together voices of various community members to spotlight and illustrate the positive ways that affected communities responded to and are recovering from the recent drought, as well as the ways they seek to build resilience against future climate and environmental shocks.
Taking place in parallel to the Africa Climate Summit 2023 at the ACW23 Action Hub, this event will take place differs from traditional discussion panels and keynote speeches by centring on a journey acted out, illustrated and voiced by people close to the situation. Incorporating powerful images and the voices of Jameel Observatory partners in the drylands of the Kenya-Somalia-Ethiopia triangle, the event aims to engage audiences and provide inspiration by showing what the three R’s—Response, Recovery, Resilience—actually look like at community levels, and how they can be realised.
More specifically, this exploration of Response, Recovery and Resilience among dryland communities seeks to highlight four key points:
1. Communities have useful and powerful knowledge;
2. Early actions, using multiple triggers, pay off;
3. Predictive and actionable evidence and data (scientific and communal) play essential roles; and
4. Actions need to hit long-and short-term outcomes.
This event is designed to complement and inform a separate side event more focused on evidence and policy.
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