Overseas Development Institute (ODI) study examining and assessing the state of Uganda's national climate change finance.
ODI, together with the Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment, Kampala, have jointly produced this analysis assessing the state of Uganda’s national climate change finance. The aim of the study is to review public spending related to climate change, and assess the extent to which this expenditure responds to existing policy and institutional demands. Extensive policy, institutional, and macroeconomic context and analysis is provided, followed by an expenditure review and sub-national analysis. The study represents the first estimate of climate change relevant expenditures in the Ugandan national budget between 2008 and 2012, a task that had to be conducted manually as no system existed that tracks climate-related public finance Key messages highlighted from the report include:
National policy narratives on funding with regard to the volume, sources and the delivery mechanisms for climate finance have yet to mature.
On-budget climate change relevant spending is approximately 0.2 per cent of GDP; the draft Implementation Strategy of the Climate Change Policy estimates that around 1.6 percent of GDP is the required level.
Over the period studied, available evidence does not show significant levels of funding to have come from international climate funds.
Actions taken by the Government of Uganda, particularly the ministry of finance, to address the current weaknesses in public finance management will be a key determinant of effective climate finance delivery.
Recommendations are offered by the authors across four main areas: improving information on climate finance, including climate finance measuring and tracking from both domestic and international sources, and greater distribution of information to all stakeholders; planning climate finance delivery, with a review and prioritisation of projects in light of inadequate international funding; supporting the institutional response for effective finance delivery, the most urgent task of which is to clarify the mandates of all institutions named in the draft climate change policy; and finally, climate change actions required at the local government level, including incentives, financial, and knowledge support for the inclusion of climate related activities within District Development Plans.