Source The United Nations
Media www.rajawalisiber.com – In rural Gambia, job opportunities are scarce and villagers have trouble accessing schools and hospitals during the rainy season due to heavy flooding linked to climate change.
Gidom Sabally is one of the villagers who struggled to make ends meet as an unskilled labourer for many years. In 2018, he joined the Job, Skills and Finance (JSF) for Women and Youth Programme run by the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and its partners and funded by the European Union. There, he gained technical skills to build culverts – a construction to channel flood waters and improve access to vital services for the villagers.
Such culverts are paid for through the Local Climate Adaptive Living (LoCAL) Facility, a mechanism for financing locally led projects to adapt to climate change, designed by UNCDF.