Key Aims
- Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
- Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
- Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
How Just a Drop Impacts
Water, sanitation and hygiene solutions can support greater resilience to climate change by strengthening water security in times of scarcity.
Water solutions designed to counter the impacts of climate change, coupled with education, can prepare communities and raise awareness of the impacts of climate change.
Just a Drop’s rainwater harvesting projects store and conserve water, which provides a safe water supply in times of water scarcity or drought caused by climate change.
Just a Drop projects often strengthen food security, for example by providing reliable sources of water and drought-resistant crop seeds, building resilience in those communities against the continued effects of climate change. In India, check dams are constructed as part of a wider watershed management intervention reducing water scarcity during times of drought.
Dominic Mwanzia, a farmer in Kenya:
“My life has really improved since we embarked on the construction of sand dams. I am still awed by the milestones I have achieved thus far. Truly, water is very vital in our lives.”
