CPED-IDRC Climate Change Project - Rural Women Adaptation Strategies

Centre for Population and Environmental Development (CPED) with International Development Research Centre (IDRC) embarked on a 3 year project titled "Empowering women as Key Leaders in Promoting Community-based Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Initiatives in Delta State Nigeria".

In order to effectively engage the local stakeholders, particularly women and girls in the implementation of the project, existing social groups in the communities were mobilized and the leadership of the various groups were brought together to form a coalition for social change referred to in this project as Community Project Implementation Committee (CPIC). Men were also included in the Commitee and they were all trained on gender equality, equity and mainstreaming as it concerns climate change adaptation.
The roles of the CPIC was to build the Capacity of local groups to respond to climate change adaptation and risk reduction efforts.
This video shows some of the women whom after receiving the training, are giving feedbacks on what adaptation strategies they have adopted and how effective it was.