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Uganda among 10 Countries to pilot UNDP project on climate change adaptation

1st April,2009

Christophe Nuttall, Director UNDP Bureau of Innovative Partnerships, Bernard Mujasi Chairman of Mbale District Local Government and Jon Townley, Advisor to the First Minister of the Welsh Assembly Government at a recent meeting on �Territorial Approach I

Global warming is no longer just a catchword to explain ongoing weather changes; it has now become an undeniable reality for which human activities are largely responsible for.

While developing countries have contributed little to greenhouse gas emissions, they are the most vulnerable to its impacts.

It is now widely projected that failure to invest in activities addressing climate change could cost the global economy up to 20% of global gross domestic product (GDP) – equivalent to the economic cost of all the great wars and depressions of the 20th century.

A dramatic scale up of existing efforts is therefore necessary to transfer the technological and financial resources to address the climate challenge, particularly in the least developed countries.

To successfully address the climate change challenge, countries will have to ensure the involvement and commitment of decision-makers at all levels. National, regional and local governments have all got an essential role to play in climate change management particularly in implementing and complementing national public policy initiatives at their respective levels.

Regional and local governments play an even more important role in adaptation to climate change as local planning decisions are critical to tailoring almost every single adaptation action to the specific conditions in which it will take place.

In October 2008 in St. Malo, France, UNDP, UNEP and several key Associations of Regions including Network for Regional Governments for Sustainable Development (nrg4SD), Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions of Europe (CPMR), Forum of Global Associations of Regions (FOGAR) and The Climate Group among others, formed a partnership to support regional governmental action against climate change, giving birth to a five-year initiative called “Towards Lower Carbon and Climate Change Resilient Territories”, also called the Territorial Approach Initiative to Climate Change.

Uganda is one of the ten pilot countries that were chosen to kick start this new approach and the Eastern region districts of Mbale, Manafwa and Bududa will be the starting ground.

A UNDP Mission was fielded to Uganda between the 21st and the 29th of March 2009 to assist these districts participate in this initiative, the mission came up with a number of outcomes, which include;

Preliminary assessment of the climate change situation in Uganda, particularly in the focus districts, including current and future policies, strategies and action plans;
Preliminary assessment of probable environmental projects (forestry, water and energy efficiency) to be piloted in pilot districts using various sources of innovative financing such as voluntary carbon, Clean Development Mechanism, water levy, etc.;
Knowledge of technical and policy capacity needs based on stakeholder consultation from all levels: national, regional, local communities, NGOs and the academia; and
Knowledge of climate change-related activities and priorities of various organisations and donor agencies;

The next steps towards the development of the Territorial Approach Initiative in Uganda will include the formulation of a draft project document for consultation and resource mobilisation with the Country Office, local stakeholders and the donor community by Mid April and probable start of project implementation by the fourth quarter of 2009.

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