State
Gombe
CAI asked 10 questions about climate implementation in Gombe and read 16 public documents. None of those questions could be answered in full from the documents reviewed.
- Capital
- Gombe
- Geopolitical zone
- North East
- Public documents reviewed
- 16
Primary climate risk
Desertification and gully erosion
Dryland advance and severe gully erosion strip topsoil, cutting farm output and damaging settlements.
Source (2024)What the public record covers
On every question the documents say something, but never enough to confirm the answer. CAI also read 88 climate-relevant budget and expenditure lines published by this jurisdiction.
This shows what CAI found in public documents, not climate performance. A gap in the record is not a zero, and is not proof that nothing is happening.
Evidence found, question by question
Policy
2 of 3
Evidence found for 2 of 3 questions
Spending
3 of 3
Evidence found for 3 of 3 questions
Outcomes
4 of 4
Evidence found for 4 of 4 questions
Policy
The climate strategy, the law or order behind it, and the institution responsible for the work.
- Questions with evidence
- 2 of 3
- Documents
- 2
Is a climate policy or strategy published?
External 2024 governance profiling reports a Climate Change Office and launched policy/action plan, but the primary state climate policy/action plan and adoption record were not retrieved in the public sources reviewed.
What would close this gap: Publish the official policy or plan, its formal status and date, implementation responsibilities, and any current progress review.
Faint signal2024/2025 Gombe State Climate Governance ProfileIs there a published law or order giving authority for climate action?
The public sources reviewed did not include authenticated Gombe climate law/regulation/executive instrument meeting.
What would close this gap: Publish the authenticated law, gazette, regulation or executive instrument, including its current status and operative climate duties.
Nothing foundIs an institution responsible for climate work named and working?
The external 2025 profile names a Director/Climate Change Desk Officer and reports a Climate Change Office, but formal mandate, identified primary staffing evidence and a dated 2025 operational output were not jointly verified from official state records.
What would close this gap: Publish the institution's mandate, named leadership or staffing, identifiable resources, and dated outputs or coordination records.
Visible, incomplete2024/2025 Gombe State Climate Governance Profile
Documents behind policy (2 documents)
- 2024/2025 Gombe State Climate Governance Profile
Policy/governance source
No provision-level document links established from the preserved public text.
- NEWMAP-EIB. Participating state in €175m erosion/watershed programme
Policy/governance source
No provision-level document links established from the preserved public text.
Spending
What published budget and expenditure records show about climate spending, energy projects, and the audit of that money.
- Questions with evidence
- 3 of 3
- Documents
- 8
Do published records show climate-related spending?
The published fiscal records did not provide enough detail to establish this amount.
What would close this gap: Publish a machine-readable executed-expenditure ledger with transaction/program ID, executed YTD amount, climate objective and weight, fund source, state-control classification, fiscal period, reference numbers and duplicate checking reconciliation.
Visible, incompleteGombe State Budget Implementation Report Q4 2025Is spending on renewable energy projects reported?
The published fiscal records did not provide enough detail to establish this amount.
What would close this gap: Publish a machine-readable 2025 executed energy-capital ledger with MDA, project/transaction ID, economic classification, executed YTD amount, funding/control source, renewable attribution, allocation splits for mixed projects and duplicate-reconciliation keys.
Fully documentedGombe State Budget Implementation Report Q4 2025Is climate-related spending audited, and is the outcome published?
The public records did not show the complete sequence from the audit finding to the government’s response and resolution.
What would close this gap: Publish the climate-relevant expenditure population audited, audit mandate/scope/coverage, methods, findings and severity, scope limitations, management response with owners/deadlines, and independent follow-up or closure assurance.
Fully documentedGombe Auditor-General for Local Governments 2024 report
43 of the 88 climate-relevant budget and expenditure lines published by Gombe could be sorted into a theme from the wording of the line. Each bar counts line items, not naira.
Forestry, land restoration
13 lines
Waste, pollution, methane
12 lines
Renewable energy, electricity
12 lines
Climate governance, cross-cutting
6 lines
This shows how many published lines mention each kind of climate work. It does not show how much money was allocated, and it does not show what was actually spent.
Where the public record stops
- The public record shows general fiscal/audit accountability visibility, but does not disclose a completed audit-control cycle specifically covering climate-relevant public expenditure with response and independent closure.
Documents behind spending (8 documents)
- Gombe State Budget Implementation Report Q4 2025
Budget performance / expenditure source
- Embedded-url
Budget performance / expenditure source
- Embedded-url
Budget performance / expenditure source
- Embedded-url
Budget performance / expenditure source
Outcomes
Measured results: emissions reduced, people helped, priority groups reached and targets met.
- Questions with evidence
- 4 of 4
- Documents
- 2
Is a reduction in emissions measured?
The public sources reviewed did not provide all the measurement needed to establish the reported result.
What would close this gap: Publish outcome datasets with intervention IDs, dates, locations, attribution, direct/indirect flags, unique privacy-safe beneficiary keys, priority-group comparison base coverage, pre-existing targets and actuals, and state greenhouse gas inventory methods where applicable.
Visible, incompleteGombe land restoration programme projectsIs the number of people helped to cope with climate impacts measured?
The public sources reviewed did not provide all the measurement needed to establish the reported result. Land restoration programme projects and waste/health outputs do not expose unique direct beneficiaries.
What would close this gap: Publish outcome datasets with intervention IDs, dates, locations, attribution, direct/indirect flags, unique privacy-safe beneficiary keys, priority-group comparison base coverage, pre-existing targets and actuals, and state greenhouse gas inventory methods where applicable.
Visible, incompleteGombe land restoration programme projectsIs the share of that help reaching priority groups measured?
The public sources reviewed did not provide all the measurement needed to establish the reported result.
What would close this gap: Publish outcome datasets with intervention IDs, dates, locations, attribution, direct/indirect flags, unique privacy-safe beneficiary keys, priority-group comparison base coverage, pre-existing targets and actuals, and state greenhouse gas inventory methods where applicable.
Visible, incompleteGombe land restoration programme projectsWere stated targets met?
Climate policy and land restoration programme project materials visible. No 2025 result against the target established.
What would close this gap: Publish outcome datasets with intervention IDs, dates, locations, attribution, direct/indirect flags, unique privacy-safe beneficiary keys, priority-group comparison base coverage, pre-existing targets and actuals, and state greenhouse gas inventory methods where applicable.
Visible, incompleteGombe land restoration programme projects
Where the public record stops
- The public record supports implementation visibility, but does not publish enough raw variables to establish the reported result.
- The public record supports implementation visibility, but does not publish enough raw variables to establish the reported result.
- The public record supports implementation visibility, but does not publish enough raw variables to establish the reported result.
Documents behind outcomes (2 documents)
- Gombe land restoration programme projects
Project / official
Substantive source material is locally preserved. The evidence URL and retrieval route are documented.
- Gombe State Climate Change Policy Draft
External policy host
Substantive source material is locally preserved. The evidence URL and retrieval route are documented.
Climate work named in the documents
These are the kinds of climate work named in Gombe's published records. The list shows what appears in documents, not how much was delivered.
Solar and mini-grids
Published records name solar or mini-grid electricity work in this jurisdiction.
Flood, erosion and drainage
Published records name flood, erosion or drainage work in this jurisdiction.
Forestry and land restoration
Published records name forestry or land restoration work in this jurisdiction.
Waste, pollution and methane
Published records name waste, pollution or methane work in this jurisdiction.
Water and resilient agriculture
Published records name water, sanitation or farming resilience work in this jurisdiction.
Health resilience
Published records name health resilience work in this jurisdiction.
Other supported sectors
Published records name cross-cutting climate or resilience work that does not sit in one sector.
Recommendations
What CAI recommends publishing
These recommendations follow from where the public record stops. They are about what is published, not a judgement that Gombe failed to act.
- 01
Publish the law behind climate action
Release the signed law, gazette notice or executive order, showing its current status and the climate duties it places on government.
- 02
Publish the climate plan and its status
Release the climate plan or strategy with its formal status and date, who is responsible for delivering it, and any progress review.
- 03
Name the institution doing the work
Release the responsible body's mandate, its named leadership, the resources it holds, and dated records of what it has done.
- 04
Publish the climate spending ledger
Release a downloadable record of climate-related spending showing each transaction, its amount, its climate purpose and its funding source.
- 05
Publish the results data
Release results data showing where work happened, how many people it reached, how many were in priority groups, and how that compares with the stated targets.