Community Voices for Flood Resilience in Tana River County, Kenya
This Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities (FRMC) process brief demonstrates how to measure the resilience of a community to floods before and after intervention.
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The Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance (ZFRA) is a multi-sectorial partnership focusing on finding practical ways to help communities around the world, strengthen their resilience to flood risk. Concern Worldwide has been working in collaboration with the ZFRA to improve the lives of communities affected by flooding in Bangladesh, Kenya, Malawi and South Sudan. The programme takes an innovative approach, allowing local community groups to find practical ways to strengthen their resilience to flood risk with technology and insights to monitor, predict and plan for the devastating effects and impacts of flooding before it occurs.
The world’s poorest are most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. As natural disasters increase in frequency and severity, people must adapt to survive.
During Phase II of solutions (2018-2024), 945,047 people across the 4 countries had their lives transformed through a variety of interventions.
In our impact brief we look at:
• Building community resilience in Bangladesh
• Actions informed by system and evidence-based resilience measurement in South Sudan
• Community led actions save lives in Malawi
• Implementing locally sources solutions to improve flood resilience in Kenya
This river in Tana River County, Kenya, only fills up when there is rain, on any other day, it is a passage from one side of the community to the other. This region however is prone to frequent flooding, washing the makeshift passage away. Photo: Shaloam Strooper/Concern Worldwide
Whilst the Kenya and Bangladesh impact briefs contain an overview of programme and advocacy achievements, impact numbers and case studies. They provide an insight into the innovative solutions established to tackle ongoing challenges related to flood preparedness, response and recovery. With the overall aim to build the climate resilience of communities.
In 2024, the Alliance changed its name to the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance, as it moved into a new phase of building resilience. The Alliance is now expanding its scope to focus on enhancing resilience to additional climate hazards including extreme heat and wildfires.
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