Climate justice - CARE ZIMBABWE
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Climate change

Supporting Sustainable Development Goals 5, 7 and 13.

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Zimbabwe is prone to a variety of hazards such as cyclical droughts, floods, storms and tropical cyclones and currency volatility which have led the country to intermittently experience devastating disaster impacts on communities while individuals are left exposed and vulnerable.

What is CARE International doing to improve climate justice?

CARE International and our partners are well-positioned to work on these changes, due to our long-standing experience in addressing climate justice through:

  • Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction
  • Sustainable agriculture
  • Ecosystems and natural resource management
  • Gender equality

By working for inclusive, just and gender-transformative climate policies and actions, CARE’s work in Zimbabwe since 1992 aims to strengthen the resilience of the poorest and most marginalized people on the front-lines of the climate emergency, particularly women and girls. CARE has been implementing climate resilience building projects in Midlands, Masvingo and Manicaland aimed at increasing the capacities of communities to sustain development gains and achieve improved well-being outcomes in the face of various shocks and stresses. Through various programs and layering and sequencing approach CARE is responding to climate change building and strengthening communities in the face of climate change induced adversities through various integrated projects targeted at increasing household productivity to achieve food and income security.

CARE’s Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) Framework is a key model with a range of strategies (climate-resilient livelihoods, disaster risk reduction (DRR), addressing underlying causes of vulnerability, local adaptive and organizational capacity, influencing enabling policy environment and a good knowledge of climate change) that need to be in place for effective community-based adaptation to occur. Through an Integrated Risk Management (IRM), an enhanced, holistic approach, our work increases community resilience by integrating disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and ecosystem management and restoration.