Climate Adaptation & Livelihood Resilience
Building the adaptive capacity of households in Kenya’s drylands so that climate shocks do not undo hard-won gains in health and livelihoods.
In Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands, a failed rainy season can erase years of progress in schooling, nutrition, and income. This program studies and strengthens the strategies households use to absorb those shocks — and identifies which ones quietly deepen the crisis instead of easing it.
The goal is locally rooted resilience: solutions designed with communities and county governments, not imported over them.
Objectives
- 01Evaluate the effectiveness of resilience-building interventions in ASALs.
- 02Identify coping strategies that protect versus those that harm.
- 03Support county governments to plan for climate adaptation.
Our approach
Working across northern Kenya’s drylands, the program tracks households through climate stress and tests adaptation measures, feeding evidence directly into county adaptation planning.
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