In the past two decades, the escalating climate crisis has posed significant challenges to coastal communities. It has disrupted local coastal fishing economies, heightened vulnerability, and disproportionately affected the coping capacities needed to strengthen resilience, especially for women and persons with disabilities residing in Sub-Saharan African countries. These challenges, amplifying threats to the lives and livelihoods of these communities, have led to increased forced migration, leaving women particularly impoverished with little or no adequate social security measures.
It is with the above that the RRN Coastal Rural Community Conference on Climate Change, themed “Strengthening the Capacity of Coastal Community Women in Climate Adaptation and Mitigation for More Ocean Governance” will holds its second edition on the 10 Feb., 2024, live in Maryland, Lagos to achieve three purposes:
- To serve as a platform for coastal communities to express their pain point while documenting innovative locally driven solutions to help spur more ocean conservation for more climate action.
- To identify socio-economic challenges and opportunities to sustainably leverage ocean resources while informing policies to scale the protection of local economies to achieve the UN Ocean Decade of Action.
- To help improve resilience levels to the social triggers of climate change and environmental degradation in the context of sustainable coastal management while scaling ocean literacy levels among coastal fishing communities.
This gathering of 300 women and persons with disabilities from across five coastal fishing communities will not only help create a learning experience for our target communities but will help create more room for dialogue and active participation for communities on the frontline of climate change and extreme weather events.
Join us virtually by register to join anywhere you are – https://bit.ly/CoastalConference2
Missed our first edition? see the highlights below
