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conflict prevention and resolution (Joint Natural Resource Management). In addition, ZOA uses Integrated Water Resource Management to handle water carefully in regions suffering water scarcity. With Green Jobs, ZOA offers people alternative ways of earning a living outside agriculture and livestock, while also using eco-friendly innovation.

By using these methods in ZOA’s programmes, we see that people are finding hope again, because they can start down a new path. By using new seeds, farmers are impacted less by unpredictable rainfall. They work together more, which helps ensure water scarcity no longer leads to conflict.

This document is by no means comprehensive. ZOA employees see examples of scarcity, migration and conflict on a daily basis in their field of work. Often this is the result of a complex mix of factors, of which climate change is one of the demonstrable ingredients. There are also countless examples of hope because people were helped to adapt to a changed environment.

To be able to adapt to the changing climate, it is very important that people are resilient and solution-oriented. They can only do this if governments take responsibility and facilitate climate adaptive policy, together with local and international NGOs, such as ZOA. This is the only way to prevent people from fleeing or coming into conflict with each other due to lack of livelihood.

Every citizen has a responsibility when it comes climate resilience. Climate change and its dramatic consequences are forcing everyone to take act now. ZOA will focus on this in the future. In the coming years, ZOA’s programmes will be focused on and tested for creating climate resilience. ZOA will have to work in a climate neutral way, both in the field and as an organisation.

If a global turnaround is not started now, the earth will become uninhabitable for many people. It is now or never.