NATIONAL ACTION PLAN ON GENDER AND CLIMATE CHANGE FOR NIGERIA
Plan · Environment
A Plan integrates gender equality into Nigeria's climate change policies, recognising women's vulnerabilities. It targets women in affected sectors and environment agencies. This ensures their participation in climate decisions and mitigates gender-specific impacts.
NATIONAL ACTION PLAN ON GENDER AND CLIMATE CHANGE FOR NIGERIA
What Is This Policy?
Nigeria's action plan integrating gender equality considerations into climate change policy and programmes, recognising that women are disproportionately affected by climate change impacts and must be included in adaptation and mitigation responses.
Who Does It Target?
Women in agriculture, water management, and coastal communities Federal and state climate change and environment agencies UN Women, UNDP, and international climate partners Civil society organisations working on gender and environment
What Does It Aim to Achieve?
Ensure women's equal participation in climate change decision-making, address gender-differentiated impacts of climate change, and integrate gender into Nigeria's NDC implementation.
Key Features
Women's Participation: Promotes women's representation in climate governance bodies and negotiation teams. Gender-Responsive Adaptation: Designs adaptation programmes that address the specific vulnerabilities of women farmers and water users. Capacity Building: Trains women in climate-smart agriculture, renewable energy, and disaster risk management. Data and Research: Supports collection of sex-disaggregated data on climate impacts.
Current Status
Rollout Stage: Active Coverage: Nationwide, particularly in climate-vulnerable communities Beneficiaries: Women and girls in climate-vulnerable settings Funding: Federal Ministry of Environment; Green Climate Fund; UN Women
How to Access
Women's groups may access capacity building programmes through state environment agencies Partner organisations implement through formal agreements with the Federal Ministry of Environment Application method: Engage the Federal Ministry of Environment Gender and Climate Change Unit.
Official Resources
Website: https://www.environment.gov.ng Contact: Federal Ministry of Environment
Legal Framework
Operates under the Climate Change Act 2021, the National Climate Change Policy, and the National Gender Policy 2006. Draws on the Paris Agreement, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Cancun Agreements on gender and climate, and the ECOWAS Gender Policy.