Fighting for Survival: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change in Kenya

“Fighting For Survival” is a passionate short video expressing the views of indigenous communities in Kenya on the radical impact of climate change on their lives.
Drought, deforestation and environmental degradation threaten the economic and cultural survival of forest-dwelling and nomadic indigenous peoples in Kenya, posing a life-and-death challenge to these fragile cultures.
Featured indigenous communities include the Ogiek of the Mau Forest, The Yiaku of the Mukogodo Forest, the Ilchamus pastoralists of Lake Baringo and the Samburu nomadic pastoralists of northern Kenya.

Produced by the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC) and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA)

Launch of the Participatory Mapping Training Kit announced

Participatory mapping and development practitioners, activists and researchers identified the lack of training materials as a major constraint in the spread of good participatory mapping / PGIS practice. An initiative launched by CTA and other development partners will lead to the production of a modular, multimedia and multilingual training kit for trainers. The kit will ensure that participatory mapping and communication practices evolve and spread in an ethically conscious manner, ensuring that indigenous and other marginalised communities are effective in documenting, representing, and communicating their spatial knowledge, while taking a high degree of control over the process. It is understood that good practice would add value and authority to local knowledge, facilitate inter-generational knowledge exchange, contribute to building and supporting a cohesive community identity, and support sustainable planning through collaborative decision-making.