Absolutely.
Unfortunately, we don't have enough statistics. That shows you how little attention women and girls as a group are given. It seems that, by and large, they are actually at a higher risk of displacement than any other group, but we don't quite know.
We've heard a lot about education at this committee. I can tell you that the schools might exist, but girls are having to forgo school in order to fetch water. When you talk to the families, you realize that the girls used to go to school, but they don't anymore. They've been in a drought, the worst that has ever struck the region, and the girls have to fetch water. In comes GBV. In comes all the conflict and insecurity that comes with that.
That's how you really need to look at this. You can't just look at this as migration or international finance. Earlier someone asked me about finance. Only a quarter of the 8% that's going to adaptation goes to Africa. It's just not a priority, whether it's the sectors of populations or the continent as a whole.
African states constantly ask within the UN, at the UNFCCC or even in the Security Council, for the global north to invest in renewables, in technology and in the transfer of technology, and it doesn't happen. I hear a lot in here about investment. People are asking for information and knowledge, for that kind of global co-operative sharing. There are opportunities.
I would also look at the climate security conversations happening in the UN Security Council and what African states ask for, because this is a very young, mobile and nimble population.