Community-oriented strategies to solve water challenges
Community Radio Harare (CORAH), zimbabwe
About this project
CORAH produced articles, podcasts, videos and community live chats, in a series of four each, on various water-related issues. Journalists reported on how to create community rainwater harvesting solutions, how poaching has contributed to land degradation and a loss of urban farming land, and how residents are demanding for the government to complete the Muda Dam to ease challenges at community water points. They also spoke to women and people living with disabilities from the target areas of Mabvuku/Tafara, Hopley, Epworth and Chitungwiza about how climate change has robbed them of clean potable water as well as exacerbated cases of sexual violence against girls, and social challenges for those with disabilities. The intended impact was to encourage active participation by residents in the mitigation of climate change. Residents who participated in the project contributed several strategies, such as preservation of wetlands, engaging tree experts in planting activities and petitioning the local board to regulate the haphazard digging of unsafe water wells.
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Climate change in Epworth
Motivation
“This video portrays one of the four targeted areas in the project called ‘Epworth,’ and shows the vulnerability of the community to the effects of climate change. Women and people living with disabilities expressed their experiences and how challenges due to climate change had worsened their woes and exposed them to abuse, further pushing their communities into poverty. Women and people living with disabilities formed a WhatsApp group that will serve as a communication hub for the community, with mitigation and adaptation strategies.”
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About the media
CORAH Trust is a Harare-based civic rights lobby and advocacy organisation that uses community-based and alternative media platforms to promote civic engagement, and hold local and national authorities accountable on governance and justice issues. It has a reach of more than 35,000 listeners.
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