| Overview : The focus of the Low Emission Capacity Building Project in Uganda is strengthening the technical and institutional capacity for the development of a greenhouse gas (GHG) national inventory system, nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs), and the associated measuring, reporting and verification (MRV) systems. The project is aligned to the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for Uganda 2010-2014, which priorities focus on supporting national efforts and capacities to ensure growth, prosperity and social transformation while integrating climate change concerns into the development process and accelerating progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It responds to Uganda’s socio-economic development challenges pertaining to environment and climate change as captured in the country’s five year National Development Plan 2010/11 – 2014/15 that emphasizes, among others: developing national capacity to deal with climate change challenges; ensuring climate proof development planning; and promoting low carbon economic development path. It further responds to capacity gaps in establishing a national GHG system as identified in the Initial National Communication (INC) to the UNFCCC. |
