The presentation was delivered by Chebet Maikut, Head of Climate Change Department in the Ministry of Water and Environment, Uganda, at the Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans Workshop, 5-7 April 2016, Rome, Italy. © FAO: http://www.fao.org

1. NAPs PROCESS IN UGANDA
By Chebet Maikut, UNFCCC NFP and Uganda NAPs Team

2. 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 Costed
Implementation 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

3. 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 clean
and 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

4. 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

5. 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)
NATIONALLEVEL
District natural
Resources
committee
…
District Authority
D1 D2
Coordination
Implementation (all
relevant district level
departments)
LOCAL
GOVERNMENT
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
…

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. CC MAINSTREAMING IN UGANDA
National 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

11. 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).

12. 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