Scale up partnerships and collaboration through ongoing initiatives under the National Development Plan and related programs
Ministry of Water and Environment
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Government
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Description
Water accelerates action across the whole SDG agenda because of its interconnections with many sectors such as health, agriculture, protection of biodiversity and enhancing climate action, energy, sustaining peace and regional integration. Water has been recognized as an opportunity and pillar in the Uganda Vision 2040 and the National Development Plan (NDP III). Water plays a critical role in employment and wealth creation, enhancement of Uganda’s competitiveness and in fostering socio-economic transformation. Uganda has already integrated SDGs in its National Development Plan whose implementation has already started. SDG6 indicators have already been integrated in the revised water and environmental sector performance monitoring framework in Uganda and the country will be reporting formally on the revised framework regularly.
Uganda has however faced several challenges and pressures, such as high population growth, environmental degradation, pollution, climate variability and change, among others. Uganda was also hard hit by the impact of COVID-19 Pandemic, locust invasion and Ebola which are still impacting negatively the country. The war in neighboring South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia have also greatly affected the country resulting into an influx of almost 1.5 million refugees. The refugee influx has increased the demand for social services including WASH services. Uganda has however played a pioneering role through the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF) to address the refugee crisis caused by conflicts and environment and climate change challenges. Financing has also continued to go down with very few development partners coming in to support the sector. This has therefore made it difficult to achieve the targets of the Water Action Decade.
While it is quite clear that by investing in the sustainable management of water resources, the world will be scoring on almost all the SDGs; and while also it is clear that water is at the centre of survival, adaptation and mitigation of the effects of climate change, water has not taken centre stage in the financing agenda of Uganda. With regard to SDGs, the role played by the UN-Water, in the work towards the 2030 Agenda and its dedicated goal on water and sanitation (SDG 6) remains critical. The methodologies for monitoring SDG 6 indicators underwent piloting in 2016 in a number of countries including Uganda. The piloting informed finalization of the methodologies that are under implementation to enable the establishment of a baseline for SDG 6 indicators and progressively report on the achievement of SDG6 targets. While momentum has been set in Uganda to fast track implementation of the various SDG6 targets and set a baseline, a lot of technical and financial support is still needed to enable reporting on all the SDG6 indicators.
In order to move the Water Action Decade forward there is need to strengthen partnerships and collaboration through ongoing initiatives such as the Program based approach to planning and implementation under the National Development Plan; catchment-based planning, development and management of water and related resources; annual Uganda Water and Environment Weeks, and a number of other programs under the Water Resources Institute
1) Partnerships and collaboration strengthened through ongoing initiatives such as the Program based approach to planning and implementation under the National Development Plan; catchment-based planning, development and management of water and related resources; annual Uganda Water and Environment Weeks, and a number of other programs under the Water Resources Institute.
2) Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF) strengthened to fully address the refugee crisis caused by conflicts and environment and climate change challenges through focusing on humanitarian and development needs of both refugees and host communities.
3) Monitoring of SDG 6 indicators scaled up to facilitate progress review and generation of credible data to inform design, planning and implementation of water related programs
4) Affirmation action taken towards the engagement of venture capitalists, private sector investments and strategic development partners to invest in the action decade 2030 from a business perspective
Various Development partners such as the World Bank, African Development Bank, bi-lateral donors etc
Climate Financing Organizations such as Green Climate Fund, Adaptation Fund, Global Environ
Civil Society Organizations
Implementation of this action is ongoing but this commitment is meant to scale it up and give it more momentum
SDGS & Targets
Goal 17
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
17.1
Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection
17.1.1
17.1.2
17.2
Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries; ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries
17.2.1
17.3
Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources
17.3.1
Additional financial resources mobilized for developing countries from multiple sources
17.3.2
17.4
Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress
17.4.1
17.5
Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries
17.5.1
Number of countries that adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for developing countries, including the least developed countries
17.6
Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism
17.6.1
Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, by speed
17.7
Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed
17.7.1
Total amount of funding for developing countries to promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies
17.8
Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology
17.8.1
17.9
Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the Sustainable Development Goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation
17.9.1
Dollar value of financial and technical assistance (including through North-South, South‑South and triangular cooperation) committed to developing countries
17.10
Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda
17.10.1
17.11
Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020
17.11.1
Developing countries’ and least developed countries’ share of global exports
17.12
Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access
17.12.1
Weighted average tariffs faced by developing countries, least developed countries and small island developing States
17.13
Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence
17.13.1
17.14
Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development
17.14.1
17.15
Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development
17.15.1
17.16
Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
17.16.1
Number of countries reporting progress in multi-stakeholder development effectiveness monitoring frameworks that support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals
17.17
Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships
17.17.1
Amount in United States dollars committed to public-private partnerships for infrastructure
17.18
By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts
17.18.1
Statistical capacity indicators
17.18.2
17.18.3
Number of countries with a national statistical plan that is fully funded and under implementation, by source of funding
17.19
By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries
17.19.1
17.19.2
Proportion of countries that (a) have conducted at least one population and housing census in the last 10 years; and (b) have achieved 100 per cent birth registration and 80 per cent death registration
SDG 14 targets covered
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SDGs
Region
- Africa
Other beneficiaries
The people of Uganda in both rural and urban areas
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Contact Information
Callist, Commissioner for Water Resources Planning and Regulation