Abstract:
Adaptation strategies to climate change are basic issues so as to maintain environmental sustainability and
sustain our daily life with relation to climate change. Female headed households are more vulnerable to
climatic change because of the nature of activities conducted by women. The study examines strategies
used by female headed households in West Kahe to adapt with climate change impacts. The study
employed cross-sectional research design. Data were obtained through administration of questionnaires
to 99 female headed households in Oria, Mawala, Ngasini and Kisangesangeni villages. Interviews,
observations, household baseline survey and documentary review were used in data collection. The
findings revealed that climatic change impacts have been observed and proven to affect different activities
including agriculture activities in the study area. Change in rainfall pattens, drought and temperature
increased are the linking issues to climate change in West Kahe Ward. 76.6% of respondents agreed that
FHHs were suffering much by climate change. However, 46.8% of the female headed households depend
on both farming and livestock keeping as the main sources of income and 63% of respondents were poor.
Furthermore, 80.9% agreed on the experience of social economic challenges of climate change. The
study recommends that despite the existing adaptation strategies to climate change impacts in the study
area, still FHHs need financial support because most of them were poor and face different challenges
in cope and adapt to climate change impacts
