This paper discusses how climate finance affects food system resilience in the Niger state of Nigeria and specifically covers the smallholder farmers and community-based organisations (CBOs). A mixed-methods design was used to gather data, which was collected via the use of structured survey and semi-structured interviews to farmers, local government officials, and NGO representatives who participated in climate finance programs. The paper focuses on climate finance, its implementation in fostering climate-smart agriculture, reducing risks related to climate changes, and improving food security. It further looks into how institutional capacity, quality of governance and gender influences access to climate finance. Its results indicate that climatic funding does positively affect the resilience of the food system, but its effect is limited due to institutional vulnerabilities, gender inequalities, and community-based limitations. Women farmers are faced with systemic barriers to access climate finance, which restricts them to use climate-adaptive strategies. The research proposal suggests gender and gender specific policies, improved governance, institutional building on capacity, and increased community involvement to optimize the success of climate finance in developing resilient food systems in the state of Niger.