Climate Resilience is the ability to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to hazardous events, trends, or disturbances related to climate change. The ability to prepare for, recover from and adapt to these impacts is called resilience. These are just some of the definitions and meaning of how the word “Resilience” is being used.
Improving Climate Resilience involves assessing how climate change will create new, or alter current climate risks, and taking steps to better cope with these risks. Climate Resilience is a fundamental concept of climate risk management.
Nyadak Pal Peace Foundation helps design and identify practices that are matched to context – specifically considering agricultural, social and economic assets, while also acknowledging the potential technical and economic barriers and limitations of each measure.
We have a team – “boots on the ground” – in Juba working with UNICEF and working specifically with the challenges of flooding in Malakal and water sanitation engaged in technical practices and governance strategies to inform multi-risks analysis and local level consultation – working with community leaders in this regards is key,
Resilience can be enhanced by implementing short and long term climate mitigation and adaptation strategies, as well as ensuring transparent and inclusive participation of multiple actors in both Church and Community leaders to empower stakeholders in decision making and management processes for sustainable development.
Due to the fact that South Sudan has one of the highest mortality rates in the world for children under five years of age, providing families with clean water, improve sanitation and good hygiene practices is paramount. Fifty-nine percent of the population in South Sudan lacks access to safe clean water.
“I am confident that we shall rise to the occasion …. I have always believed that solutions to most of our problems must come from us.”
Leymah Gbowee, Noble Peace Prize Winner