 According to reports by NEMA, this year forecast indicates a high risk of coastal flooding due to expected rise in sea level and tidal surge that may negatively impact agriculture, human settlements and transportation in Bayosa Delta, Lagos and River State. In River State, residents of some communities affected by flood are still counting their losses while major highway damages in the state during the 2022 Florida yet to be properly fixed. In light of this, a group connected development has trained communities in River State on the dangers of climate change, urging communities to prevail on the government to build dams that will mitigate flooding in the country. It's a project that aims to create awareness, understanding and influence the opinions of community members on the frontline crisis of climate change. We can evidently see that last year, not just rivers, other states were particularly hit by the severe flooding that cost damages to biodiversity, loss of properties, people died from it, the major roads were dilapidated. So it is a conversation that we began with funding from Oxfam, our partners, and we're trying to carry out this two-year project to ensure that community members are aware of their mandate and how they can demand for accountability and transparency, especially when we talk about climate financing and ensure that the government takes the necessary step to mitigate what happened last year and ensure that it doesn't repeat itself again. Participants at the workshop called on the government to build more dams in a country and to dredge the River Niger and River Bend way to mitigate flooding. They said climate finance should be judiciously used for victims of climate change and not allowed to be handled by politicians. Government must be prudent to give the variables of our money ahead periods they need to bring that money back. We must, as this workshop said, add those money for the flooding and then the one that they budgeted for river states, the government should put it up. So many communities are bringing in the stories. The media people help us to apply these stories, right? So that is the need for media recognition. Most of the time we blame the government. Why would they open their dams? Because of the fact that the Cameroonian government opens their dams now, what stops the Nigerian government from building a dam that will serve the citizens of this country? I think the government of Nigeria needs to be proactive. To me, they are more reactionary. They wait for problems to happen for citizens to suffer and they create conversations around it and that's all. There are no concrete actions, no concrete measures, no concrete steps taken by the government. Over time. Fresh news updates