Project Background

•The IRC is partnering with Google.org, IFPRI & the Center for Disaster Protection to implement a Climate Resiliency project in the Northeastern state of Adamawa, Nigeria piloting the use of climate-risk reduction ex-ante cash payments to small holder farmers and livestock owners in the region from October 2021-December 2022.

•This pilot is hinged upon the central hypothesis that when climate vulnerable communities have timely access to information and the financial and social resources to act upon that information, they will avoid negative coping strategies and build more diversified and climate resilient livelihoods.