Uganda needs a functional inventory processes to enhance national capacity for GHG reporting to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Presently, estimates of GHG emissions have a high degree of uncertainty, mainly relying on default values (IPCC 2006 Tier 1 Methodology) developed by the IPCC, combined with expert opinion.
Meeting the growing and changing consumer demands for food and animal proteins, while reducing environmental and social impacts, is a current challenge facing the international beef industry.
ACTED is implementing this project in Mbarara and Nakasongola Districts of Uganda.
Our project consists in fostering innovation and access of rural communities and institutions to new technologies for rural transformation through the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impacts associated with the beef industry, as Uganda is lacking in effective livestock emissions policies, relevant date, infrastructures and awareness of the role of livestock farming in climate change.
The SIRGE project will include
These activities will help Uganda face significant challenges as the impacts of climate change begin to be felt in the country.
*SIRGE = Strengthen an Innovative System for the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Environmental Impacts of the Nascent Beef Industry in Uganda in Support to Rural Sustainable Transformation
ACTED conducts several projects across Uganda and East Africa with the generous support of the European Union and its various agencies, most notably in the sectors of assistance to displaced people and climate-change mitigation.