Transcript Why didn’t you come sooner?”

“Why didn’t you come
sooner?”
Experience of working with sectors to raise
their attention to environment in their
budgets and plans.
PEI Uganda
Context 1
Linkages between PRSP (PEAP) and Sectoral plans
and budgets?
1. Sector plans and budgets are
for implementing the PEAP
and reaching its goals.
2. The PEAP implementation is
tied to the Budget process
3. Budget allocations respond to
the challenges identified in
the PEAP.
4. The PEAP re-affirms sector
priorities as in their plans
Context 1, continued: Linkages between PRSP
(PEAP) and Sectoral plans and budgets,
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PEAP identifies priority actions to achieve sector
priorities.
The Sector Working Groups (SWGs) which
recommend sector plans and budgets, work within the
PEAP framework.
Sector plans and priorities feed into the PEAP and
should be within the PEAP framework.
The PEAP secretariat works closely with the personnel
in the sectoral planning units.
Context 2. How well are the links made?
Ideally, the
Sector
plans are
perfectly
linked to the
PRSP
(PEAP) and
the budgets.
But, do not always, e.g. in the following
circumstances:
Disasters, natural and man-made
calamities.
Strategic priorities stated in BFPs
Emergency and extraordinary plans
e.g. CHOGM event.
Politically motivated programmes e.g.
Prosperity For All (Bonna Bagaggawale).
Failures in spending discipline;sectoral priorities are ignored
Context 3. Mechanisms for Harmonisation Between
PRSP/PEAP and Sectoral plans
– Annual budget call circulars, based on the
PEAP, that guide the whole budgeting process.
– Ministerial Policy Statements-linked to Sector
BFPs.
– Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF); a
framework for medium-term(3-year) budget
planning
• MTEF Ceilings
– The sectors contribute to preparing the PEAP.
– PEAP Evaluation.
– Sector Investment Plans.
– Sector performance reviews.
– Budget framework papers.
Context 4. Key entry points for integrating
environment into sector plans and budgets
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Annual Budgeting process.
Annual Work plan making process.
Sector Investment Planning Process.
Sector policy reviews and formulation.
PRSP reviews and formulation processes.
Programme reviews e.g. the NAADS.
Identifying and exploiting emerging issues and
challenges e.g. Climate change.
• Policy development and reviews.
• Environmental screening of plans and budgets
by Environmental focal point officers.
• Central govt assessment of local govt
performance.
Experience
• Since the 1992 Rio Conference
– Sectoral policies and Sector Strategic Plans have been made.
– Attempts were made to mainstream environment concerns into them.
• Since 1997 Uganda has been implementing PEAPs i.e. the
coverage of environmental concerns has been improving in each
subsequent PEAP
– PEAP 2 (2000): environment recognised as a cross-cutting issue
– PEAP 3 (2004); environment recognised as both a cross cutting issue
as well as important for enhancing production, incomes and
competitiveness.
• Success has been achieved in environmental mainstreaming,
however, the budgeting for environmental priorities is still very
low.
• Awareness and willingness of sectors including the MFPED to
mainstream environment has increased.
• Greater awareness by the MFPED, NPA that environment is weakly
treated as a cross –cutting issue in many sectors and there is
willingness to increase attention to it.
How?
Approaches
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Integrating environmental concerns into the Budget Call Circular
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Participation in all stages of the budgeting cycle.
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Reviewing, policies, plans and BFPs and identify gaps.
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Holding discussion meetings with sectors and getting their commitment to address the
gaps identified.
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Preparing separate summary comments and proposals for change.
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Lobbying influential people in relevant sector e.g. Policy makers, the Director of Budget,
Sectoral Planners.
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Building the capacity of Planners, Chief Finance Officers, Ministry of Finance to
appreciate and mainstream environment.
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Study visits with delegations from MFPED, NPA, Parliamentarians and Executives.
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Lobbying for policies on environmental incentives/ disincentives
How ? – 2. Tools
• Environmental mainstreaming
guidelines
• Relevant reading materials to
sectoral planners and MFPED.
• Environment policies for Local
Governments
• Generating evidence (using
studies) showing the links
between environment, poverty
reduction, and other
development goals.
Mandate of ENR sector
• ENR Sector as the Champion of environmental
mainstreaming must;
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Identify ENR sector priorities.
Develop ENR Sector Investment Plan (SIP).
Lobby other sectors to integrate environmental issues.
Mobilize resources from Govt, development partners
• Presents the case for increased budget allocation
– Generate evidence on linkages between environment
and national development.
– Increase visibility of environment in all Government
plans and programmes including the PEAP/NDP.
Lessons
• Mainstreaming environment in sector policies, plans and PRSPs
is not sufficient, it needs to be followed by budgetary
allocations.
• BFP documents tell us more precisely what sectors are doing
than other plans (SIP, draft NDP papers).
• Need to generate quantitative evidence- environmental
statistics.
• Vital to maintain continuous dialogue with the MFPED, CFOs,
Planners.
• Taking environment as a cross-cutting issue is not enough, it
should as well be taken as one of the pillars in the PRSPs.
Lessons continued
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Support of development partners is essential.
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Need for continuous interactions with the
sectors at all stages of the budgeting cycle, in
sector reviews, policy formulation.
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Where environmental concerns are taken on
board they tend to be isolated to projects in
selected geographical/admin areas – not an
overall strategy or policy of the sector.
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Inadequate engagement of donors to other
sectors.
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The sectors recognise the need to mainstream
environment, the existing gaps and are willing to
address them.
They even asked;-
“Why didn’t you come sooner?”
Challenges
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Keeping a continuous dialogue with the sectors.
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Keeping momentum and interest of all stakeholders
in the process.
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Capacity building at Local Government (critical
mass) level to propose strategies and put forward
budget proposals for environmental activities.
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Generating quantitative evidence.
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Communicating with MFPED, Planners and CFOs.
Challenges Contd.
6. Documenting evidence and sharing it out with
all stakeholders.
7. Identifying what works in different sectors.
8. Global challenges e.g. bio-fuels, nuclear
energy, and GMOs, Climate change: supporting
sectors to plan for addressing them.
9. Capacity building (public and private) at all
levels.
There is a huge job to be done
Next steps
• Greater engagement of MFPED, Parliament,
Accounting Officers, CFOs, Planners
• Full participation of ENR in the National budget
cycle –Environmental Budgeting Guidelines
• Evidence based lobbying- Generate Statistics
• Integrate PEI into the UNDP country programme
• Strengthen environmental visibility in donor
country support programmes to other sectors
We are up to the challenge.
Required UNDP-UNEP PEI Support
• Facilitate networking, sharing of knowledge
and international best practices
• Facilitate south-south cooperation
• Enhance the generation of supportive
evidence
• UNDP to use its position to
– lobby the donors to mainstream environment
in their country programmes
– facilitate PEI to participate in high level policy
meetings