In northern Kenya, drought kills the herd and a daughter's bride price becomes the family's last asset. In Mathare there is no herd, just rent and floods. The pressure on girls to marry looks different. It is the same pressure.
In northern Kenya, drought kills the herd and a daughter's bride price becomes the family's last asset. In Mathare there is no herd, just rent and floods. The pressure on girls to marry looks different. It is the same pressure.
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.social36% of girls saw more child marriage after climate shocks, 60% where drought hit. In the drylands the trigger is a dead herd. In Mathare it is a lost livelihood after floods. Same pressure, different market.
A finding I keep coming back to: 76% of girls see more peers unable to reach sexual and reproductive health services after climate shocks. In Mathare, when floods cut off the clinic, the three-month injection simply lapses.
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.social76% of girls in Change Her Forecast see peers struggling to reach SRH services. In Mathare, floods cut off clinics and contraceptive injections lapsed. Pads and contraception belong in every disaster kit.
Nine in ten girls told Plan International that climate events are straining their homes. In Mathare I see where the strain goes. To girls. Minding siblings after the floods, hours in the water queue, school days lost.
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.social9 in 10 girls in Change Her Forecast say climate events strain their household's survival. In Mathare that strain lands on girls: sibling care after the 2024 floods, and 2 to 5 hours in the water queue.
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I spent Tuesday at the Change Her Forecast launch in Westlands, volunteering with our Youth and Urbanism team. 5,000 girls in five countries told Plan International what climate shocks do to their lives.
Did you know UN Women's 2023 paper found women and girls do about three times the unpaid care men and boys do, worth roughly nine percent of global output.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialDid you know UN Women's 2023 paper found women and girls do about three times the unpaid care men and boys do, worth roughly nine percent of global output.
Read it all on WhatsApp, tap and press send:
https://wa.me/254732218005?text=Care
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialTuesday 6 Oct: we joined Plan International's launch of Change Her Forecast in Westlands as volunteer storytellers. 5,000 girls in five countries, Kenya included, told Plan what climate shocks do to them.
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialWorld Mental Health Day. Oxfam's 2022 research on care and climate records depression and distress among carers, and notes they lack time to care for their own health. In Mathare that time never arrives. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialOfficial disaster assessments in Nairobi's informal settlements count broken walls and lost stock. They do not count the grandmother who held the household together through the flood. Our Climate and Care workshop wants care burden assessed too. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialKenya's Climate Change Act 2016 builds a Council, a Directorate and a Fund, and never says care work. Section 5(j) asks for gender equity without defining it to include care. We propose a new section 5(k) on care-responsive adaptation planning. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialClimate shocks elevate suicidal ideation among women caregivers, sharpest through long water-scarcity periods. A population-level finding, no individual account. No formal substitute exists for the care she holds. Water and food policy is mental-health policy. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialOxfam Kenya put water fetching in Mathare at two to five hours. Our documentation adds the rhythm: water comes once or twice a week, so the hours collapse into one lost day. The fix is supply frequency, not shorter trips. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialOur Male Champions Forum runs as four forums reaching 100 men in Mathare, asking which parts of the care load they treat as a woman's job by default. Norms shift fastest when men question them in front of other men. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialClimate and Care for Her runs 14 months: three outcomes, 22 activity streams, every stream read against the 8Rs care framework. A designed programme with a published map, not a run of events. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialDid you know our drafted Bill proposes ten working days of paid climate emergency care leave and a National Care Climate Fund.
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https://wa.me/254732218005?text=Care
Did you know our drafted Bill proposes ten working days of paid climate emergency care leave and a National Care Climate Fund.
Read it all on WhatsApp, tap and press send:
https://wa.me/254732218005?text=Care
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialUN Women's 2023 working paper reports women and girls spend three times as much time on unpaid care, domestic and communal work as men, and work longer hours once paid work is counted. In Mathare that ratio settles who queues for water. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
