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International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Growth Evaluation

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The Gendered Impacts of Climate Change: Assessing Women’s Roles in Adaptation and Community Resilience in Kilosa District, Tanzania

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Abstract

In Tanzania climate change impact is manifested through the increase of disasters including droughts, flooding, and irregular distribution of rainfall patterns across the country, women have reported mainly being affected by climate change impact due to a combination of social, economic, and cultural factors that give them domestic responsibility. Specifically, the study assessed women's adaptation strategies to climate change and activities formulated by women’s community groups to enhance community resilience to climate change that carried out in the Kilosa district. The study was carried out in Mbwade, Mabwegere, Ngaiti, and Twatwatwa villages of Kilosa district where by 104 respondents were selected for this study using simple random sampling. Data were collected using questionnaires and analyzed using SPSS version 28. The findings of the study revealed that in adapting to climate change women engaged in sustainable farming practices including home garden establishment and agro forest farming about 52% of respondents and also results found that through women community groups’ women shared skills and knowledge regarding climate change adaptation. Furthermore, the study revealed that the application of smart cooking, solar energy, improved home water storage facilities and planting climate-smart resilient plants significantly influence adaptation to climate change at a 5% level of significance. Lastly, the study recommends that the National climate change mitigation strategy should incorporate gender-specific considerations to address the unique vulnerabilities faced by women by integrating the identified women's roles in climate adaptation.

 

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Godlove Deodatus Rwekaza (2025). The Gendered Impacts of Climate Change: Assessing Women’s Roles in Adaptation and Community Resilience in Kilosa District, Tanzania . International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Growth Evaluation (IJMRGE), 6(1), 507-510.

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