Germany injects Shs260bn into Uganda’s Climate Change adaptation

By Olivia Nabaggala

28^th Oct 2022

Germany has announced close to over 260 billion shillings (EUR 68.8 million) in grants for Uganda’s climate change, forestry, and energy sectors.

The grant is part of the just concluded framework for development cooperation for the two years.

The (biannual) negotiations took place in Berlin, Germany, and were the first negotiations after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic to bring together the Ugandan and German delegations in person.

The talks resulted in the signing of a summary record on October 12, 2022 by Haruna Kyeyune Kasolo, the State Minister for Finance, Planning and Economic Development in Charge of Micro Finance, for the Ugandan side and by the Head of the East Africa Division of the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, Marcus von Essen, as head of the German Delegation.

All German programs support Uganda in implementing its National Development Plan III, the Agenda 2030, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as the Agenda 2063 of the African Union.

According to a statement from the Germany Embassy in Kampala, the new commitment will particularly focus on improving climate adaptation and resilience through support for the sustainable management of forests.

It said Germany extended and up-scaled the bilateral cooperation with Uganda in the focus areas of transformation of agri-food systems, focusing on rural development and agriculture.

A total of EUR 18 million will go to the protection of forests, EUR 7.5 million for the promotion of renewable energy and energy efficiency, EUR 7.5 million goes to strengthen agriculture and rural development under the area Transformation of agri-food systems, while EUR 6 million will go to support good governance and civil society and lastly the EUR 7.8 million will go to the strengthening of water supply and sanitation infrastructure for refugee settlements and host communities.