Design climate solutions that make sense locally.
CAVALLAMA helps government and NGO practitioners understand how religious, cultural and traditional values shape climate resilience. Ask a planning question and explore a knowledge graph connecting local values, ecological evidence and practical, cited guidance.
Mijikenda Kaya forests, coastal Kenya
A focused digital repository and knowledge graph connecting sacred values, customary institutions and ecological practices.
Evidence support for local consultation—not a substitute for it.
Technical fit is not enough.
When relationships between local values, authority and ecological systems remain invisible, adaptation can face low acceptance, deepen vulnerabilities and create conflict.
Bring knowledge together
Explore what communities, research and reports say about local values and the environment.
See what is connected
Understand how beliefs, traditions, everyday practices and the natural world shape one another.
Plan with local context
Use those insights to develop climate responses that are culturally appropriate and sensitive to conflict.
Start with a real decision or assumption.
CAVALLAMA retrieves relevant knowledge items, follows their relationships across the graph and synthesizes what the repository supports—and what still needs local validation.
Who should be consulted before introducing a forest-management intervention near a Kaya forest?
Which customary access rules could affect a proposed conservation programme?
How might a technically sound intervention create conflict or legitimacy problems?
What evidence links sacred practices with biodiversity protection?
Prototype output should inform—not replace—community engagement and professional judgement.