Operationalization of Uganda’s National Tree Fund A Process Audit and Call for Action
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2014
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ACODE
Abstract
Uganda is one of the countries losing forest cover at a very alarming
rate. It is reported that within a period of 15 years, stretching from
1990, Uganda’s forest cover had reduced by approximately 1.3 million
hectares.1 This represents an average annual deforestation rate of 1.8 per
cent.2 This means that in less than twenty years, Uganda has lost about
25 per cent of its forest cover. If this rate of loss of forest cover is not
contained, it means that in the next 40 years, Uganda will hardly have
any forests left. Given the importance of forests to Uganda’s economic
development, human well-being and the environment, this spells doom.
This has grave implications for the energy sector, tourism, agriculture,
food security and the lives and livelihoods of many Ugandans especially
the forest-dependent and forest-adjacent communities. A key challenge
to efforts aimed at restoring the forest cover and promoting tree planting
generally, is the inadequate and lack of appropriate, long term and
sustainable funding.
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Naluwairo, R., et.al., (2014). OPERATIONALIZATION OF UGANDA’S NATIONAL TREE FUND: A Process Audit and Call for Action. ACODE Policy Briefing Paper Series, No.29, 2014. Kampala