Federal Republic of Nigeria: National drought plan

The general aim of Nigeria's National Drought Plan is to provide an effective and systematic means of assessing drought conditions, develop mitigating actions and programmes that will reduce the potential vulnerability and impacts. A ten-step planning process that is gender responsive is adopted in formulating this plan and recommended for implementation.

The purpose of the National Drought Plan is to provide frameworks for long term, holistic approaches towards analyzing and managing drought risks faced by the principal sectors, activities, groups or regions that are most vulnerable to droughts and to develop mitigating actions and programmes that will break the cycle of costly emergency interventions. Another main purposes of this plan is to mainstream gender considerations from all levels including decision making, policy and regulation, financing, awareness raising and capacity building and service delivery given the absence of gender issues in earlier plans.