[{"bbox": [83, 104, 1147, 320], "category": "Text", "text": "The program proposes an intervention maintaining the human rights approach in all its areas of action. The relationship between climate change and human rights is recognized by state and supra-state bodies. Since 2008, the Human Rights Council, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and international human rights treaty bodies have devoted increasing attention to the issue. Countries need to assume more human rights responsibilities for climate change. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women have specifically drawn attention to the need to protect groups in vulnerable situations and the need to ensure the participation of indigenous peoples, women or youth in climate decision-making."}, {"bbox": [83, 328, 1147, 411], "category": "Text", "text": "Climate change threatens the existence of a wide range of human rights and directly affects the availability of food. Erratic weather patterns severely affect agriculture and directly reduce or alter the productivity of crops, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture. This also results in loss or changes in biodiversity, further affecting the right to food."}, {"bbox": [83, 420, 1147, 530], "category": "Text", "text": "Gender, racial, class, ethnic, disability and intergenerational justice are essential to achieving climate justice. Human rights approaches can help ensure that climate actions do not harm communities, stressing the importance of considering the rights of certain groups that may be disproportionately affected by climate change and responses, including women, children, the elderly, indigenous peoples, minorities and persons with disabilities."}, {"bbox": [83, 540, 475, 570], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Conflict sensitivity, peace and resilience"}, {"bbox": [83, 578, 1147, 794], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will contribute to climate change resilience and can mitigate stakeholder conflict in the implementing states. Approaches to strengthen and leverage social and natural capital, empower women, increase youth participation in agriculture processing, strengthen policy frameworks and systems will be adopted to mitigate environmental, economic and social shocks to vulnerable communities. Increased access to financial products and services in rural communities can increase resilience capacities of rural farmers as it will enhance access to better inputs. Deliberate efforts will be undertaken at strengthening the capacity of communities, civil society and government in natural resource management to build resilience to facilitate secure and equitable access to natural resources and expand the economic well-being of the most vulnerable population."}, {"bbox": [83, 804, 323, 831], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disaster Risk Reduction"}, {"bbox": [83, 841, 1147, 1031], "category": "Text", "text": "The introduction and widespread use of climate smart technologies will address some of the effects of natural disasters and mitigate some of the negative impact of climate change and environmental degradation, including floods, droughts, pest infestation, soil erosion, storms and others. Governments at federal, state and local level will be carried along in the adoption and implementation of the relevant strategies to reduce the negative impact of disasters and disaster readiness would be considered at all phases of the project. Such strategies and the related support should consider early warning systems with outreach to communities; disaster risk management training to communities, local authorities, and targeted sectors, and protective infrastructure and equipment."}, {"bbox": [83, 1041, 330, 1070], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Reduction of inequalities"}, {"bbox": [83, 1079, 1147, 1212], "category": "Text", "text": "In the Nigeria agricultural sector, there are high levels of inequalities, these inequalities maybe driven mainly by gender, age categorization, geography, religion, cultural norms and access to finance. In the northern region which is a priority for the intervention, there is a bias against women, in terms of property rights, which is based on religious and cultural tradition. These issues also affect unemployed youths, who have limited access to financial services, with stiff collaterals that affect their abilities to access finance."}, {"bbox": [83, 1223, 1147, 1308], "category": "Text", "text": "Improving women's access to productive inputs (such as land, chemical fertilizer, improved seeds, and pesticides), reforming land discriminatory laws, and closing women's gaps in technology, agricultural finance, human capital, and extension services may help achieve gender equality in the agricultural sector."}, {"bbox": [83, 1317, 1147, 1449], "category": "Text", "text": "Economic inequality in Nigeria has reached extreme levels, despite being the largest economy in Africa. The country has an expanding economy with abundant human capital and the economic potential to lift millions out of poverty. Nigeria has a gender policy that has been mainstreamed across all sectors of the economy to address issues around inequality. From the programme perspective, we will ensure apply the principle if inclusivity, to ensure, no one is left behind."}, {"bbox": [83, 1462, 399, 1490], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Other considerations if relevant"}, {"bbox": [83, 1500, 1147, 1663], "category": "Text", "text": "In particular, youth empowerment and gender considerations will be integrated throughout the Programme cycle from the design to its implementation since the aim is to improve these groups' participation in the economy. The action will target the root causes of internal and irregular migration through policy dialogue, advocacy and targeted opportunities for decent jobs, entrepreneurship and skills development for potential migrants, and foster a smooth integration and social cohesion for returnees, where relevant. Creation of viable livelihood and employment opportunities is critical in preventing irregular migration, as well as assistance to the returnees. It will be particularly"}, {"bbox": [1040, 1663, 1158, 1687], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 10 of 28"}]