Climate change impacts in Nigeria are widespread and unequal
Nigeria is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to its geographic diversity, large population, and heavy reliance on climate-sensitive sectors such as agriculture, fisheries, and natural resources.
The country faces recurrent climate-related shocks, including flooding, droughts, desertification, coastal erosion, and extreme heat. These climate risks are increasing in frequency and intensity as a result of climate change, with uneven impacts across regions and population groups. Climate change in Nigeria has a strong gender dimension. Women and girls are disproportionately affected due to existing gender inequalities in access to land, income, education, energy, water, and decision making, particularly in rural areas. At the same time, women play a critical role in climate adaptation, natural resource management, household resilience, and community-level responses.
Targeting the climate-gender nexus for inclusive policymaking
Understanding and addressing the climate–gender nexus therefore requires disaggregated, high-quality, and well-used data. In this context, the availability and strategic use of official gender-responsive climate statistics are essential to inform public policies, strengthen advocacy efforts, and promote inclusive and effective climate action. However, many institutions still face difficulties in accessing, interpreting, and applying gender-responsive climate data in their daily work and policy engagement. This limits their ability to conduct analysis and promote evidence-based climate-gender policies.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and PARIS21, is organised a three-day capacity-building workshop targeting actors within Nigeria’s national statistical system and related stakeholders working at the intersection of climate change and gender. The workshop aims to strengthen capacities for the strategic use of official statistics on climate change and gender to support more effective advocacy and decision making.
