Nigeria’s climate change projects are severely deficient in gender considerations, an Oxfam report has said, raising questions about the country’s commitment to using its international climate finance to address the peculiar problems of women, who are disproportionately affected by the climate crisis.
The report, ‘Fact sheet: The state of climate finance in Nigeria,’ launched by Oxfam in partnership with Connected Development (CODE) in Abuja on Monday, stated that Nigeria received $4.93 billion in international climate finance between 2015 and 2021.
Henry Ushie of Oxfam who presented the report said 69 per cent of the 828 projects for which Nigeria received the climate finance fund did not incorporate gender considerations.
Only 16 per cent of the projects included gender as a key objective and a mere 1 per cent prioritised gender equality as the main goal.
Experts stated that it raises concerns about Nigeria’s commitment to addressing the disproportionate…
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