Drought, floods, poverty, and population growth are major challenges facing Uganda that vulnerability adaptation must address. Collaboration between stakeholders is important to enhance learning, take advantage of different influences, and address challenges like building trust over time, institutional barriers, community needs, and financial limitations. Bringing researchers directly to communities provides long-term opportunities, increased accountability, and generates more adaptive ideas through combining multiple institution perspectives.

1. Strengthening collaboration for climate change adaptation By Susan Nanduddu CLACC fellow – Uganda Development Network of Indigenous Voluntary Associations (DENIVA)

2. A lesson from the Community Based Adaptation in Africa_Uganda project Vulnerability context Drought Floods High poverty rate (67% below poverty line) Majority dependant on rain-fed agriculture for a livelihood Poor government services High population and population growth rate (3.2%)

3. Collaboration at the different phases of the project

5. It is imperative to work in partnership with other stakeholders to enhance learning from and within each category, as well as take advantage of their scope of influence to take the message further. This is a communication challenge

6. Lessons learned Challenges It takes time to build the relationships – to gain trust and the required understanding to walk the journey together Institutional barriers: these call for flexibility and the willingness to learn and unlearn The community needs both hardware and software. They get fed up of discussions Financial limitations Benefits An opportunity to link researchers directly with community – long term Increased accountability horizontally and vertically Larger scope of influence A lot of ideas are generated from more than one institution on how best to strengthen adaptive capacity

7. Thank you for your kind attention