In Search of an Oasis

This is a participatory Photovoice research carried out in three rural communities in Adamawa State to unravel the specific complexities and gender dynamics around water systems in fragile and conflict-affected communities.

It aims to empower communities to speak out their needs through visual storytelling, and recommend intervention strategies and programming needed to effectively address specific challenges in water systems of fragile and conflict-affected communities. Many of the photos in this essay were captured by participants in a Photovoice research project.

For this work, community members used photography to capture and share their daily water struggles in searching for water. In partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP), this work was supported by the Norwegian Government under the project titled ‘Learning Support for a Sub-Saharan Africa Multi-Country Climate Resilience Program for Food Security,’ and by the donors who fund the CGIAR Research Initiative on Fragility, Conflict, and Migration (FCM), through their contributions to the CGIAR Trust Fund. Image credits are those of the original photographers.