Amplifying community voices for sustainable climate adaptation thought Digital Storytelling

Future Yetu seeks to position digital storytelling as a creative methodology for dialogue between community and local government. Together with representatives from Nairobi City County, residents of Korogocho, the fourth biggest informal settlement in Nairobi, will receive skills and knowledge on how to amplify their voices through digital storytelling. The stories will inform effects of climate change in their everyday lives. A team of community members, urban planners and county officials will respond to these stories by developing climate adaptation ideas, interventions and prototypes. These will be implemented and can be up-scaled to policy level. The ideas can be either physical or tap into behaviour change. Through a mobile Matatu-exhibition, the stories will travel around the streets of Korogocho. Residents will have possibility to take part in the discussion and provide new ideas for climate adaptation. The results from these discussions will be developed into a community climate adaptation manifesto. The manifesto will be handed over to the county government, and inspire into a Nairobi Climate Adaptation Plan that not yet exist.