POPs Project for Development of National Implementation Plan (NIP)
The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) with technical assistance from United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) implemented the Project for the ‘Enabling Activities for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs): National Implementation Plan for Uganda’. The project started in July 2005 and was completed in March 2009.Project objectives: Within the overall objective of the Stockholm Convention, which is to protect human health and the environment from POPs, the project is intended to:
1. Prepare the ground for implementation of the Convention in Uganda;
2. Assist Uganda in meeting its reporting and other obligations under the Convention; and
3. Strengthen Uganda’s national capacity to manage POPs and chemicals generally.
Download the National Implementaion Plan
UNDP-UNEP Poverty Environment Initiative (PEI)
UNDP-UNEP Poverty Environment Initiative (PEI) is part of the global United Nations Development (UNDP)-United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Poverty Environment Initiative (PEI).
Overall goal: The overall goal of the project in Uganda is to build capacity in mainstreaming environmental sustainability concerns into poverty reduction strategies and other development strategies by specifically capturing the critical linkages between poverty and environment.
Objectives at country level:
• Inclusion of environmental sustainability as a central objective in national development strategies, such as Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs),the National Development Plan(NDP), the District Development Plans(DDP), Sectoral Policies and Plans, the MDGs implementation plans or equivalents;
• Increasing national budget allocations to the environment;
• Building the long-term capacity of government to integrate environmental concerns into the design and implementation of development plans and programmes.