Theron, Linda C.Mampane, Motlalepule RuthEbersohn, L. (Liesel)Hart, Angie2021-05-142021-05-142020-10Theron, L.; Ruth Mampane, M.; Ebersöhn, L.; Hart, A. Youth Resilience to Drought: Learning from a Group of South African Adolescents. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 7896. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph172178961660-4601 (online)10.3390/ijerph17217896http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79902Exposure to drought is on the increase, also in sub-Saharan Africa. Even so, little attention has been paid to what supports youth resilience to the stressors associated with drought. In response, this article reports a secondary analysis of qualitative data generated in a phenomenological study with 25 South African adolescents (average age 15.6; majority Sepedi-speaking) from a drought-impacted and structurally disadvantaged community. The thematic findings show the importance of personal, relational, and structural resources that fit with youths’ sociocultural context. Essentially, proactive collaboration between adolescents and their social ecologies is necessary to co-advance socially just responses to the challenges associated with drought.en© 2020 by the authors. Licensee: MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.African adolescentsClimate changeCo-productive approachProtective communitySocial ecological theory of resilienceSub-Saharan Africa (SSA)Article