NAPs PROCESS IN UGANDA

By Chebet Maikut, UNFCCC NFP and Uganda NAPs Team

Uganda’s Actions with regard to adaptation planning and implementation

Put in place a number of policy and institutional frameworks:

◦ Creation of the Climate Change Department (CCD);

◦ Operationalisation of the Inter-institutional CC Technical Committee;

◦ The National Climate Change Policy and its CostedImplementation Strategy;

◦ Guidelines for mainstreaming CC in sector plans and budgets;

◦ Operationalisation of Parliamentary Forum on CC (PFCC);

◦ Conducting a vulnerability and assessment study;

◦ Developing a Performance Monitoring Framework (PMF);

The frameworks developed in a participatory process at local and central government levels

Climate Change legal and Institutional Frameworks in Uganda

At national level, the Constitution (1995) provides an overall regulatory framework

for the implementation of the National Climate Change Policy (NCCP).

The Uganda Constitution states that “Every Ugandan has a right to a cleanand healthy environment.’’

Adaptation remains priority under NCCP and is included in INDC. National CC legal

framework (CC Bill) now under development.

The Uganda Vision 2040 & National Development Plan (NDP2) guide investment

planning, budget allocation and social interventions

All government programmes are linked to the NDP2 within the existing policy, legal,

planning, monitoring and reporting systems

National Planning Authority and CCD developed guidelines for mainstreaming CC

into sector development plans, policies and budgets

The NDP 2 has deliberately mainstreamed CC

Institutions coordinating implementation of NCCP

Climate Change Department (CCD) of Ministry of Water and Environment (MWE) -

performs the national overall coordination of CC actions and implementation of NCCP and its

strategy across all sectors in the country. Other key Ministries/Agencies have roles-Finance,

Local Govt, Office of Prime Minister, Agriculture, Energy, National Planning Authority.

Main functions of the CCD:

1. Acting as an information clearinghouse on CC concerns. Prep of NATCOMs, BURs,

INDCs/NDCs , Green Growth Development Strategies, NAPs and other reporting

requirements.

2. Providing policy and strategic advice on climate change

3. Supporting communication and outreach on climate change

4. Ensuring integration of CC concerns into overall planning through coordination with

Ministries, Departments and Governmental Agencies

5. Providing secretarial services to National CC Policy Committee, National CC Advisory

Committee , NAMAs,and CDM-Designated National Authority

6. Monitoring implementation of CC Policy and its Implementation Strategy

7. Serving as the National Focal Point for the UNFCCC, KP, PA

M3 Climate Change

Focal Point (MoLG)

Policy Committee on Environment

Chaired by Prime Minister

Secretariat: CCD/MWE

MWE

Climate Change

Department (CCD)

(National UNFCCC

Focal Point)

M1

(Climate Change

Focal Point

MAAIF)

National Climate Change Advisory Committee (NCCAC)

Chaired by Minister of MWE

Secretariat: CCD/MWE

(Government departments, Private-sector associations, civil

society, Academia, District authorities)

M2

(Climate Change

Focal Point

MEMD)

Coordination

Implementation

(all relevant

ministries,

departments and

agencies)

NA

TIO

NA

L LE

VEL

District natural

Resources

committee

…

District Authority

D1 D2

Coordination

Implementation (all

relevant district level

departments)

LOC

AL

GO

VER

NM

ENT

Natural Resources

Department

(District Level Climate

Change Focal Point)

Environment Committee

(Multi -stakeholder)

Parliament

(Parliamentary Forum on

Climate Change)

Ministry of Finance

-

National Planning

Authority

Mx

…

Status of the NAP process

The overall NAP process has been initiated:

A road map has been prepared and shared with UNFCCC Secretariat but none of

the planned actions in the road map has yet been implemented due to resource

constraints.

Resources for preparation of country’s NAP are yet to be mobilized to launch the

preparation process.

The Agricultural Sector NAPs process is on-going

A roadmap for the AS NAPs process was launched by the Minister of Agriculture at

a multi-stakeholder workshop in June 2015

Consultations were made with central and local government stakeholders on

agricultural sector priorities to include in the NAPs

Drafting of the Agricultural Sector NAPs document is almost complete

Status of the NAP process (Cont’d)

Clear structures for the AS NAP process exists

For example for this AS NAP, the process was coordinated by the Climate Change

Task Force of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF)

Membership of MAAIF CC task force has representatives from different sub-

sectors; including forestry, fisheries, aquaculture, crops and livestock

The AS NAP process therefore involved all the sub-sectors of the

agriculture sector (forestry, fisheries, aquaculture, crops and livestock)

Uganda has used the existing technical guidelines systematically following the key steps recommended by LEG

Uganda appreciates that NAP Guidelines developed by UNFCCC are detailed and user friendly

Major outputs indicated in the Guidelines have been partly achieved in AS NAP, in most cases with detailed stakeholder consultations and stocktaking

The CCD and its partners are planning to use the Guidelines to cross-check sample NAP outputs for each of the steps

To identify any gaps and missing building blocks and outputs to prepare the Uganda NAP document to be submitted to UNFCCC

Application of UNFCCC NAP Guidelines

CC MAINSTREAMING IN UGANDANational Planning Authority and CCD/ MWE developed

guidelines for mainstreaming CC into sector

development plans, policies and budgets

The guideline has been popularised at local and

central government levels

MAAIF developing a sector guideline for mainstreaming

CC in the agricultural sector

The NDP 2 2016-2020 (Uganda ’ s main planning

framework) has deliberately mainstreamed CC issues

Most important needs for coordination and capacity to develop & implement NAPs

• Identifying appropriate partners with sufficient convening power to mobilize for the consultations up to grass root level

• Enhancing the human and institutional capacities for data collection, analysis and communication; for both local and central government teams

• Need for capacity in areas of resource mobilisation to secure financial requirements for climate change adaptation

• For most sectors, there is need to provide equipment for facilitating data collection, storage and analysis ( in general information management system including knowledge and knowledge management).

Lessons learnt• With limited quantity and quality of data, Uganda continues

to rely on likelihood assessments to guide adaptation

planning because it is difficult to accurately categorize how

likely modeled changes and impacts are.

• The NAP process is envisaged to provide opportunities,

resources and capacity to help address such gaps and

needs if resources become available and are allocated

properly.

• In order to provide robust policy responses in the face of this

uncertainty, Uganda should expedite the implementation of

low-cost and “no regret” adaptation strategies/measures