This Terms of Reference (TOR) outlines the scope, objectives, and deliverables for the localization of the National Climate Adaptation plan (NAP). The purpose of the assignment is to adopt the National strategies and guidelines to the unique contexts, vulnerabilities, and opportunities at the selected local levels, ensuring effective planning, implementation and community resilience to the impacts of climate change.
Background
Climate change is a pressing global issue that affects countries across the world. The global goal on adaptation (GGA) is a collective commitment under article 7.1 of the Paris Agreement proposed by the African group of Negotiators in 2013 and established in 2015 aimed at enhancing the world’s adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability to climate change.
Parties launched the Glasgow and Sharm el Sheikh Work programme on the global gaol on adaptation at COP26. At COP28, negotiators made long-awaited progress on a “global goal on adaptation” (GGA). Parties adopted a “framework” to guide countries in their efforts to prepare for rising global temperatures – dubbed the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience. The UAE Framework for global resilience aimed to measure how the collective effort on adaptation is being implemented and identifies resilience for people, well-being, livelihoods, and nature for current and future generations as its ultimate aspiration.
It underscores the importance of urgent action by 2030 in key sectors such as food, agriculture, water, cities, infrastructure, ecosystems, health, livelihoods, and cultural heritage.
Additionally, the framework sets targets for each stage of the adaptation policy cycle, a process that begins with assessing impacts, vulnerability, and risks and moves to planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation while encouraging all countries to have National Adaptation Plans in place by 2030.
Uganda in response to this global commitment developed its National Adaptation Plan (NAP) with the objective of reducing risk and vulnerabilities to climate change impacts. Uganda is currently grappling with the impact of climate change daily through droughts, floods, slow onset events that leads to damaging impact across the Country. As a landlocked country these challenges impact its environment, economy, and social fabric. The NAP envisions building a climate resilient nation through effective adaptation strategies that foster a robust society and ecosystem. The NAP is therefore a unilateral approach to address climate change scenarios both at National and local level.
This Terms of Reference (TOR) outlines the plan to Support selected districts namely, Kitgum, Mbale, Kasese and Sembabule to develop their District climate Adaptation action plans, as provided for in the National Climate Change Act of 2021, to manage climate change impacts through planning and budgeting for development.
