Uganda Green Growth Development Strategy 2017/18 – 2030/31.

This Uganda Green Growth Development Strategy (UGGDS) is a nation-wide multi-sectoral policy document. The goal of UGGDS is to achieve an inclusive low emissions economic growth process that emphasizes effective and efficient use of natural, human and physical capital while ensuring that natural assets continue to provide for present and future generations. The UGGDS focuses on five core catalytic investment areas of agriculture, natural capital management, green cities (urban development), transport and energy. The envisaged outcomes of the UGGDS implementation are: income and livelihoods enhancement; decent green jobs; climate change adaptation and mitigation; sustainable environment and natural resources management; food and nutrition security; resource use efficiency; and social inclusiveness and economic transformation at the sub-national and national levels.
The UGGDS seeks to help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. One of the strategic interventions is: Support increased access to irrigation facilities starting with 10 percent of smallholder farming areas in 2020 and cumulatively increasing to at least 60 percent of smallholder farmers by 2030. The long-term target would be to reach at least 60 percent of the 4.8 million households out of reach of current plans, using water harvesting, solar irrigation and other discrete type of interventions based on ground, surface and rainwater, over a 10-year period between 2020 and 2030.
The UGGDS promotes sustainable forestry management through: a. Undertake forest landscape restoration, especially on private land, through agro-forestry and afforestation actions. b. Support incentive programmes oriented towards livelihoods enhancement, environmental stewardship and landscape management for climate change adaptation, mitigation, food security and sustainable energy.
The UGGDS promotes poverty reduction. One of its Objectives is to achieve an inclusive economic growth with poverty reduction, improved human welfare and employment creation.
In order to enable more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems, the UGGDS proposes (i) Integrated soil fertility management entailing the development and implementation of appropriate soil fertility techniques through soil mapping and land use planning and conservation agriculture (based on the judicious use of inorganic fertilizers, organic manure, agro-forestry, soil and water conservation, energy conservation) for all the farming systems in the country. (ii). Undertake actions to upgrade the value chain for strategic enterprises with a focus on product quality and quantity, market diversification, excellence in agro-processing and effective use of knowledge acquired from within the value chain. The value chain upgrade is built into the Agricultural Sector Strategic Plan with priority areas of: bananas; beans; rice; tea; coffee; cassava; fruits and vegetables; fish; cocoa; meat, Irish potatoes; and oil palm and oilseed crops.
The resilience of livelihoods to disasters will be increased by (i) Supporting increased access to irrigation facilities; (ii) Sustainable forestry management and sustainable wetland management; and (iii) Sustainable and optimal water resources management.
As for the Governance, the UGGDS adopts the governance arrangements proposed in the second National Development Plan. A National Green Growth Governance and Coordination Framework is proposed. The national governance framework will provide regulatory oversight and provide support in ensuring the macroeconomic drivers and sustainability drivers are able to translate into policies for the private sector and other actors.