Project location(s): Nairobi County
Project Overview
The Race to Resilience program aims to mobilize non-party stakeholders to accelerate and increase the resilience of their communities – those at the frontlines of the climate crisis – by 2030. This is being undertaken amidst long lasting and existential threats to human habitability, food and water supplies, infrastructure durability and land ecosystems among others. Resilient people are therefore needed to imagine, create and sustain resilient places.
Psychological resilience runs deep in many frontline communities, but it is also fragile, even as it becomes increasingly essential. Mental health markedly suffers in the face of climate impacts compounded by other human development challenges. These conditions not only fuel distress and emotional suffering, but also contribute to the erosion of the collective efficacy, empowerment, and social ties needed to absorb, enact, and lead great change.
To this end, SDI Kenya in collaboration with BNBR and other stakeholders conducted a community survey in the settlements of Mukuru, Kahawa Soweto and Mathare that reaffirmed the existential threats to informal settlements caused by growing climate pressures. Young people and women in these settlements are particularly vulnerable to these impacts of climate crisis with recent extreme weather-related events having greatly impacted the mental wellbeing of youths, the general community, and community health workers tasked with offering support.
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