Promoting women led community climate change solutions & health research for indigenous knowledge sharing in kenya

WCCI Kenya project aims to work towards systemic actions that, knowledge is produced, translated, and transformed through a series of context-specific encounters between diverse people, mediated through (often unequal) relationships between these knowledge actors, and framed by particular epistemological orientations and assumptions. Our study research project thus intends to shift research paradigm and allow local communities, especially the grassroot women to set the research agenda on health and climate change issues that affect them Solving complex problems around health and climate change should start at grassroot level and informed by local knowledge. The proposal puts grassroot women at the center of citizen science research model, adopting a research approach that is participatory and culturally responsive, ethically acceptable and locally sustainable. the proposed research activities will be carried out following an active and experiential learning approach, centered on the local experience, maximizing on indigenous knowledge sharing concept while strengthening women’s involvement participation and ownership of the research process. This will be done through community trainings, community dialogues, community conversations among other Participatory Integrated Community Learning Approaches(PICLA). Local knowledge often held by women plays a crucial role in sustainable development and the empowerment of communities around the health and climate change.