Shuaib LwasaDepartment of Environmental Management

Makerere UniversityEmail: shuaiblwasa@gmail.com

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!