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Shuaib LwasaDepartment of Environmental Management
Makerere UniversityEmail: [email protected]
UNEP / Cities Alliance / IIEDMainstreaming environmental concerns into City
Development Strategies
Kampala Workshop, 24-25th July 2012
Environment and Development in Uganda
Context of mainstreaming
CDS cases
Approaches
Institutional Readiness
IIs Urban Livability possible in view of s Urban Livability possible in view of changing environment?changing environment?
RURAL53%
URBAN47%
UN-Habitat 2002
Managing the environment in Uganda for sustainable development
focus largely remains protection and or sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, air quality and wild life
Urbanization poses challenges Urban environmental degeneration continues Inequality, poverty
The linkage between poverty and natural resource use or degradation
Urban environmental conditions remain deplorable in many neighborhoods especially the urban poor
Environment-development debate in Uganda has continued for long
1980’s vibrant CSO community emerged
Focus remained largely on air, water, forest conservation
Several conventions, laws and institutionalization
1. Kampala CDS for Kampala with a time horizon of five years
between 2004 and 2009 goal number 3 in the strategy is “Improving the
environmental living conditions” District (in this case City) Environment Action Plan
(DEAP) A series of projects
2. Jinja▪ CDS 2007 – 2012 revitalizing industrial economy,
equitable access to services▪ CDS focuses on Local Economic Development ▪ A participatory approach with a LED committee
Institutional set up, NEMA, District Environmental officers
Project-based implementation; KIEMP, CDM, KUSP
Program-based mainstreaming; TSUPU, Slum Upgrading, Housing Policy??, LGDP-LGMSDP
Mainstreaming challenge
A common approach!
Long-range planning and mainstreaming!!!!
Policy &Policy &SolutionSolution
CrisisCrisis
ManagementManagementAction as a FixAction as a Fix
AssessmentAssessmentor Pseudo? or Pseudo?
Report StoredReport StoredOn shelf On shelf
NextNextCrisisCrisis
Forgetting
Levers for Uganda
NDP
▪ Municipal Development Plans
DEAP or Municipal Environment Action Plans
Framework on which projects need to relate, CDS/MDS?
There are lessons in regard to existing tools and knowledge-project specific
The broader institutional issues specifically the Legal enabled-legal-disabled continuum creates a lock-in
Processes Urban environment-definition, beyond water, air, soils and
fauna Planning with nature Poor settlements, does EM ‘improve urban life’? What about ‘ urban livelihoods’?
NUF, MUF, LUKA
In general, tools are a set of guides, steps and practical means that enable different stakeholders in reaching a desired goal of improving understanding and management of the urban environment.
Policy tools NDP, DEAP 3 Year development Plans
Legislative tools NEA Municipal Environmental regulations
Programs and Projects
Knowledge management and engagement tools EPM
Are municipalities for mainstreaming urban environmental?
Institutional adaptation; from ‘projectization’ to programs
Resource allocation
Capacity Development?/Capacity Building
Home-grown CDS or internally driven processes of mainstreaming
Experiential learning
Thank you!