Transcript Need for sustainable management of natural resources

Kampala Workshop, 24-25th July 2012
UNEP / Cities Alliance / IIED
Mainstreaming environmental concerns into City
Development Strategies
Shuaib Lwasa
Department of Environmental Management
Makerere University
Email: [email protected]
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Environment and Development in Uganda
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Context of mainstreaming
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CDS cases
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Approaches
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Institutional Readiness
RURAL
53%
URBAN
47%
UN-Habitat 2002
Is Urban Livability possible in view of
changing environment?
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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
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The linkage between poverty and natural resource use
or degradation
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Urban environmental conditions remain deplorable in
many neighborhoods especially the urban poor
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Environment-development debate in Uganda
has continued for long
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1980’s vibrant CSO community emerged
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Focus remained largely on air, water, forest
conservation
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Several conventions, laws and
institutionalization
Kampala
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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
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Jinja
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CDS 2007 – 2012 revitalizing industrial economy, equitable access
to services
CDS focuses on Local Economic Development
A participatory approach with a LED committee
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Institutional set up, NEMA, District Environmental officers
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Project-based implementation; KIEMP, CDM, KUSP
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Program-based mainstreaming; TSUPU, Slum Upgrading,
Housing Policy??, LGDP-LGMSDP
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Mainstreaming challenge
 A common approach!
Report Stored
On shelf
Crisis
Assessment
or Pseudo?
Policy &
Solution
Forgetting
Management
Action as a Fix
 Long-range planning and mainstreaming!!!!
Next
Crisis
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Levers for Uganda
 NDP
▪ Municipal Development Plans
 DEAP or Municipal Environment Action Plans
 Framework on which projects need to relate, CDS/MDS?
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There are lessons in regard to existing tools and knowledgeproject specific
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The broader institutional issues specifically the Legal enabledlegal-disabled continuum creates a lock-in
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Processes
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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
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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
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Legislative tools
 NEA
 Municipal Environmental regulations
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Programs and Projects
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Knowledge management and engagement tools
 EPM
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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
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Thank you!