Nigeria’s Climate Finance Ignores Gender Equality, Neglect of Women Persists – Report

The Oxfam report says only 16 per cent of Nigeria’s climate change projects included gender as a key objective and a mere 1 per cent prioritised gender equality as the main goal.

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…