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Laying the foundations for climate-sensitive budgeting & expenditure tracking in the Gambia
26 February 2019
26 February 2019
20-21 February 2019 – Establishing a methodology for climate-sensitive budgeting and expenditure tracking is a foundation for ensuring long-term investments in national adaptation planning. To strengthen the capacity of institutions to identify and track climate-related expenditure, the United Nations Development...
Senegal preparing for new project tackling climate change, food security and nutrition
06 December 2018
06 December 2018
The 27-29 November marked the first national multi-stakeholder consultation, organized by FAO in Senegal, ahead of the launch of the project "Strengthening national adaptation planning capacities for food security and nutrition" funded by the Government of Quebec. The event brought together...
Government and the UN in Uganda launch new strategic framework to tackle climate change in the agriculture sector
03 December 2018
03 December 2018
28 November 2018 - The Government of Uganda launched its first ever National Adaptation Plan for the Agriculture Sector (NAP-Ag), which will guide mainstreaming of climate change in agriculture sector policies, plans and budgets.
The strategic framework, launched by the Ministry...
Our planet’s agricultural moonshot
29 November 2018
29 November 2018
By Julia Wolf (FAO) and Rohini Kohli (UNDP)
We need to change the way we farm, the way we eat and the way we think if we as a civilization are going to survive the catastrophic impacts that climate change is...
27-29 November, Kampala, Uganda – One of the key objectives of the joint FAO-UNDP Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans Programme is to build technical capacity at the national level on the use of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) tools to guide...