Expected Reach And Beneficiaries
Expected Reach
The BNRCC project through its implementation and outputs
will reach the Ministries and Legislatures at Federal
and State levels, including Ministries of Environment,
Housing and Urban Development; Agriculture and Water Resources;
Women Affairs and Social Development; Health; Education;
Information; Finance; Justice; the National Planning Commission;
and the Energy Commission. Also to be actively engaged
are parastatal agencies such as the National Meteorological
Agency (NIMET); National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA);
State Environmental Protection Agencies; and the Department
of Petroleum Resources (DPR). Other important stakeholders
are the electronic and print media, non-governmental organizations
(NGOs), faith-based organizations (FBOs), community-based
organizations (CBOs), professional and scientific associations,
and universities and research institutions.
The specific means of outreach are to be developed in
a strategic Adaptation Outreach Action Plan, but are likely
to include, but not limited to: 1) project web site, 2)
press releases and media workshops, 3) publication and
sale/distribution of materials, 4) workshops with stakeholders,
5) constituencies of NGOs that become affiliated with
the BNRCC network, 6) reach into West Africa through networks
like LEAD, RING and Climate Action Network-West Africa,
7) reach into Canada via Canadian engagement, 8) reach
globally though web site, presentations at meetings, and
global networks like IIED. The numbers of people to be
reached through different outreach activities will be
developed during the development of the strategic Adaptation
Outreach Action Plan.
Expected Beneficiaries
The long-term beneficiaries are people in communities
across Nigeria, particularly those that are vulnerable
to, and affected by, climate change impacts. In the direct
implementation of the project, activities will engage
communities in pilot activities in key regions of the
country, which will increase their capacity to adapt to
climate change and thereby contribute in such areas as
poverty alleviation, improved livelihoods and health,
access to natural resources, equality and good governance.
Beyond these communities, the project will also provide
for the participation of and benefits to other specific
people or groups including environmental NGOs; media;
women’s groups; universities and research institutions
within selected universities; the Federal Government of
Nigeria and its Ministries; State Governments and State
Environmental Protection Agencies; National and State
Assemblies, including Environment Committees of the House
of Representative and Senate; private companies and trade
unions; and educators and secondary schools. The focus
will be on climate change capacity building and adaptation
in key sectors where climate change will have the greatest
impact in Nigeria.
This project will generate benefits to Nigeria at the
level of government policy and programmes, better public
understanding of the phenomenon of climate change, and
at the level of local communities and grassroots groups.
Outreach, education, communication and networking programmes
are part of the BNRCC activities developed with inputs
from adaptation research, indigenous knowledge and pilot
projects. It is meant to improve the understanding and
adaptive capacity of climate change, and livelihoods of
women and men. The project will assist the Government
of Nigeria to meet its obligations under the UNFCCC, such
as facilitating the completion and release of the Second
National Communication, and to build Nigeria’s response
to climate change. This will be done through capacity
building and by developing the National Climate Change
Adaptation Strategy as well as other strategies, seeking
its endorsement/adoption and actions in areas that have
a strong relationship with poverty reduction, natural
resources management, and other national development priorities.
For Canada, the project allows for fulfillment of obligations
as an Annex ‘A’ country under the UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change. It allows for Canadian scientific
and policy expertise in climate change to gain significant
exposure to the context of a priority country in the African
context, with the potential for transferability to other
countries in the Bight of Benin and elsewhere.
