The Northeast Development Commission (NEDC) collaborated with the Rural Women Energy Security (RUWES) to facilitate a technical training session that took place across each of the 6 NEDC States (Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba, and Yobe) respectively.
The overall goal of the initiative was to train women from each of the 6 States under the NEDC on climate change awareness and adaptation, and to teach them how to apply mitigation/adaptation strategies to reduce the effect of climate change. RUWES also distributed 510 cookstoves to each of the trained participants.
The specific objectives of the training were:
- Educating women about the issue of climate change through concrete examples and thorough explanations.
- Facilitate the women participants’ ability to identify and implement feasible, local adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change.
- Educate women on the general use of energy-efficient stoves as a means of lowering household carbon footprints.
