Baseline
Project:
Northern Uganda is now recovering from almost two
and half decades of civil war. The Government of Uganda launched in
2007 a US$ 606 million Peace Recovery and Development Plan
(PRDP) to address the after effects of the war. The plan
provides the overall national framework for ensuring economic
recovery in the North and for improving the social welfare of the
northern Uganda population within the auspices of the broader
National Development Plan (NDP 2010-2015). The PRDP has 14
components: including a $US45 million
Environment and Natural Resource Programme (ENRP) aimed at
restoring 30% of the degraded community forest and
wetland area (an area equivalent to 107,314 ha). Under the ENRP,
the PRDP is mobilizing local government and communities to form
environment management structures and resource user committees;
sensitizing communities on sound environment management and use of
natural resources; building and strengthening capacity at all
levels for ENR, action planning, mainstreaming and implementation;
establishment of community nurseries and woodlots and encouraging
farmers to engage in agro-forestry based livelihoods; and promoting
energy saving devices (fuel wood/ charcoal). US$ 4.425 million of
the Government's $45 million PRDP-ENRP is ear-marked for the Kidepo
critical landscape and directly relates to the 2 components of the
project - so should be considered objectively the baseline
project.
