CIDD-UG gives shs. 4,500,000/= Seed funding to three community groups in Pallisa District,  to implement Social Action Projects (SAPs) that respond to mitigating climate change impacts and increase adaptation capacities.

CIDD- UG with  funding from British Council while implementing the Active Citizen COP26 project, has disbursed a total of shs.4, 500,000= to three community groups in Pallisa District, to support small social actions that will contribute to enhancing climate change mitigation and adaptation. The function took place in May/2021 at CIDD-UG offices in Pallisa Town Council.

Uganda has already witnessed the negative effects of climate change and many more are expected to impact on the country and the world at large. The major manifestations of climate change in Uganda and the world over include severe water shortages, increased incidents of prolonged drought, reduced crop production, reduced potential for hydropower development due to a reduction in rainfall and water availability as well as damage to the country’s physical infrastructure due to extreme weather events among others.

It is from such background that CIDD-UG with financial support from the British Council while implementing a project entitled Active Citizen COP26, provided seed funding to the three community groups in Pallisa. The aim is to promote robust measures to enhance public participation in climate change accountability as well as promote mainstreaming of climate change adaptation and mitigation through mobilization of more stakeholders to take action.

The project will also engage and impose the much needed duty on Local Governments to mainstream climate change in their Local policies, development plans and budgets.