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Book Synopsis MONOGRAPH - Empowering Women for Climate Change Adaptation in Nigeria's Niger Delta by :
Download or read book MONOGRAPH - Empowering Women for Climate Change Adaptation in Nigeria's Niger Delta written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is essential to put rural communities in Niger Delta at the centre of actions on climate change and disaster risk reduction by empowering their inhabitants to adopt and adapt climate change strategies in innovative ways based on current and future evidence, so as to give them not only the ownership but also the confidence to take leadership of the process (CPED, 2005 and 2014). [...] Decision making and the limited role of women Farming households and their decision-making process are central to the development challenge of alleviating rural poverty as well as responding to the challenges of climate change. [...] For these reasons, decision makers and development partners at all levels need to integrate gender perspectives into the planning, financing, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of climate responses The survey carried out in Niger Delta (CPED, 2014) attempted to gauge the opinions of respondents with respect to their support for women to play key roles in climate change adaptation strate. [...] Awareness of the causes and consequences of climate change in order to sensitize rural women on the dangers of climate change and to the possible requirements/mechanisms of adaptation 2. [...] - to be able to use one's own labour in the formal and informal labour markets, to have access to loans and funds and, in the context of climate, access to international climate finance mechanisms (e.g., climate funds).