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Climate Change: FG Vows To Enrol Women In Energy Technology Centres

                         Ikeazor

BY CHIKA OKEKE, Abuja

Worried by the adverse impact of climate change in Nigeria, the federal government has vowed to enrol women in energy technology training centres across the six geo-political zones so as to widen their knowledge on emission-free technologies. 

Minister of State, Environment, Barr Sharon Ikeazor stated this at a side event yesterday on 'Nigeria's Commitments to Addressing Gender Equality within Climate Action', during the ongoing 26th session of the Conference of Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Glasgow, United Kingdom. 

The minister, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Environment, Engr Hassan Musa promised to provide alternative livelihoods for women affected by climate change in urban and rural areas by organising livelihood training.

She promised that Nigeria would promote effective waste management practices in communities by developing the capacity of educational institutions from primary to tertiary levels on waste management.

This is even as she assured that women groups would establish nurseries and plant trees upstream to avoid dislodgement of sediments, soil erosion and improve water quality in line with gender-based programmes for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). 

Ikeazor recalled that the ministry through the Department of Climate Change (DCC) commenced the process of developing the gender action plan in July, 2016 by organising a stakeholder consultative workshop.

She said the document was approved by the Federal Executive council (FEC) on the 12th of August, 2020 and was launched on the 18th March, 2021 by the then Minister of Environment, Dr Muhammad Mahmood Abubakar. 

This, she said, led to the unveiling of a 5-year (2020-2025) National Action Plan on Gender and Climate Change (NAPGCC), with the aim of mainstreaming gender issues into climate change and national development plans in Nigeria.

The minister stated that the priority sectors covered by the action plan includes: agriculture, forestry and land use; food security and health; energy and transport; waste management; water and sanitation, adding that the sectors were selected according to Nigeria’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP).

While pleading with the federal government to release funds promptly for the implementation of the action plan, she was optimistic that the implementation strategy would be launched after COP26. 

She stated that Nigeria is taunted with severe environmental challenges that were induced by climate change such as erosion, flooding, desertification, landslides that marred the livelihood of farmers and poor households especially in rural areas. 

Ikeazor said the impact of the challenges on gender were not properly addressed since women and children are the most vulnerable, just as she sought for technical and financial support in implementing the action plan. 

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