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Integrating disability perspectives into climate policy, planning, and implementation for a truly equitable future.
Climclusive champions "Inclusive Climate Action," integrating disability perspectives into facets of climate policy, planning, and implementation. We empower communities by ensuring climate solutions are accessible, equitable, and truly benefit everyone, especially those most vulnerable to environmental shifts.
Our work focuses on bridging the gap between climate action and disability inclusion, creating pathways for meaningful participation of persons with disabilities in all aspects of climate discourse and action.
Our Focus Areas
An inclusive world where persons with disabilities lead and influence climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience efforts.
To enhance climate resilience and adaptive capacity of persons with disabilities in Kenya through inclusive education, advocacy, research, and services.
At Climclusive, our core values are rooted in radical inclusion and equity, ensuring every climate solution is universally accessible and just for all. We are driven by a profound commitment to amplifying the voices of all disabled individuals within climate discourse, recognizing their unique insights are crucial for building resilient communities.
Ensuring every climate solution is universally accessible and just for all.
Understanding and addressing the unique challenges faced by persons with disabilities in climate contexts.
Developing creative solutions to complex challenges at the intersection of disability and climate change.
Working together with diverse stakeholders to create meaningful, lasting impact.
Open and honest communication in all our operations and partnerships.
Valuing the dignity, perspectives, and rights of all individuals and communities.
While we're just beginning our journey, here's what we're working towards. Our impact will be measured through meaningful changes in policies, communities, and individual lives.
Targeting to train 50+ persons with disabilities in climate literacy and advocacy by 2026
Building collaborations with local organizations for inclusive climate action
Developing inclusive climate policy briefs
Contributing to the growing body of knowledge on disability-inclusive climate action
"Our impact grows with every voice we amplify and every barrier we remove."
Help Us Grow Our ImpactDue to the complexity of terms used in climate change conversation, PWDs are not able to meaningfully participate in climate action. Also, there are low levels of education among PWDs compared to other groups due to accessibility barriers during their education and transition to higher learning. Climclusive aims to provide access to funded educational opportunities with a focus (not limited) to climate and environmental education to PWDs so that they can take part in climate action and related conversations.
We also aim to provide information materials for PWDs and stakeholders e.g. to involve young children and those with autism, produce colorful books on environment education, podcasts for PWD heroes in climate.
Sexual and reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) of PWDs are often neglected due to the disbelief that they are not required by them. Medical facilities offering such services are hardly accessible for both men and women with disabilities, while SRHR policies are limited to meet the needs of PWDs. During climate emergencies, PWDs are not able to access these services, such as access to menstrual products, ART treatments, prenatal and postnatal care, and access to contraceptives so they can have full control of their bodies.
Due to the dearth of knowledge around climate change and disability, Climclusive supports the provision of scientific data through research around different dimensions of disability and climate.
PWDs are more prone to being victims of mental health due to various barriers they face in their daily lives such as attitudes towards disability, unemployment, poverty and anxieties to constantly adapt to a life whose systems have been created without PWDs in mind.
Climclusive aims to address factors that lead to poor mental health, and strengthen the right mental health support mechanisms.
Patricia is a recent graduate from the University of Oxford, with a Masters in Environmental Change and Management funded by Mastercard Foundation Scholarship AfOx initiative. She is also a Rhodes scholarship finalist (2023). She is the former Vice chairperson of the youth Advisory Board of the United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) and formerly worked as the Coordinator of the Global Network of Young persons with Disabilities.
She was appointed by the Ministry of interior and National Administration, with the support of the United Nations Resident coordinator's office, as the youngest member of the Independent Panel of advisors for the review of Kenya's Peacebuilding Architecture Process. She is also a season 2 Ms. President finalist representing Nairobi County in the Kenya's national TV show (KTN).
In December 2012, I was involved in a road accident that rendered me as a person with a physical disability. After acquiring the disability, I became exposed to so many barriers that would limit my full participation in various activities, including my full participation in education, getting access to better health, employment and generally even my normal lifestyle was disrupted.
Some of these barriers included physical barriers that limited my movements and participation in conversations that mattered, attitudinal barriers on my appearance as a person with a disability, and to some extent, I also experienced emotional abuse targeted to me due to my gender, age and disability. Acquiring the disability made me more vulnerable than my counterparts and agemates, but resilience has always made me persevere through discomfort and social barriers that I am automatically exposed to. Coupling these barriers to one of the world's most pressing issue - Climate change, it makes it difficult for me and other persons with disabilities to thrive.
During my Masters research, I explored a Disability lens in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation strategies in Kenya, an angle that is hardly explored by climate change actors and policy makers. My findings highlighted the challenges that PWDs face before, during and after disasters, the factors that lead to these challenges and possibilities of how to counter these challenges.
Climate change affects us all, but its impacts are not felt equally. Persons with disabilities are disproportionately affected by climate-related disasters and environmental changes.
By joining Climclusive, you become part of a movement that ensures climate solutions are inclusive, accessible, and equitable for all.