To promote effective gender participation, the Federal Government is prepared to carry out the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
This was said by Sen. Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment, on Thursday at the project’s inauguration and kickoff workshop in Abuja.
The project is tagged: “The Nigeria Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT), Just and Gender Inclusive Transition (JGIT) Project’’.
The project aims to assist nations in upholding their pledges to transparency and properly evaluating the effects of their climate policies and activities.
The launch of the ICAT Just Transition project and raising awareness among national stakeholders for a better understanding of its implementation, according to Ngige, were the two main goals of the genesis meeting.
He said that ICAT, an International multi-stakeholder partnership of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) was supporting Nigeria to set up Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) of a Just and Gender Inclusive Transition(JGIT).
The minister, represented by Ms Daju Kachollom, Permanent Secretary in the ministry said Nigeria had signed a Project Cooperation Agreement (PCA) with the UNOPS, represented by the ICAT management.
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According to him, the PCA is to firm up the process leading to the takeoff and implementation of the project over a 12 months period.
‘`The objectives of the project among others include, to develop JGIT monitoring, MRV, and ensuring it links with the sectoral MRV system.
”Another objective is to Enhance the Transparency Framework (ETF) implemented by the Federal Ministry of Environment to achieve synergy, institutional memory and stakeholder inclusion and cooperation.
“It will further enable a tripartite cooperation between government, labor and employer associations, to achieve a Just and Gender Inclusive Transition going forward with the implementation of the Paris agreement,” he said.
The minister said that ICAT project would be implemented by a team of national experts and international ICAT consultants under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment.
Dr Yerima Tarfa, ICAT, JGIT Project Team Lead said the initiative would help to increase the overall transparency capacities of countries and assess the contribution of policies and development objectives.
According to him, this is by providing appropriate methodological information and tools to support evidence–based policymaking.
Tarfa noted that Nigeria was the largest economy and leading oil producer and most populous in Africa.
Story adapted from Vanguard
