Uganda allocated $114 million, 0.8 per cent of its 2023/24 budget to climate change, natural resource, environment and water management – compared with $2.06 billion (14.6 percent) allocated to governance and security or the $1.2 billion (8.5 percent) allocated to transport and infrastructure.
And yet, as extreme weather disasters escalate, Uganda needs to commit 30 percent of national resources or at least $258 million per year to implement actions listed in the government’s 2015 Climate Change Policy, according to data from the Economic Policy Research Centre.
