CSO - GOVERNMENT DIALOGUE

On 19 th /07/2017, Government of Uganda through Ministry of Water and Environment in conjunction with Environmental Management for Livelihood Improvement Bwaise Facility (EMLI) and support from Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched the EMLI CSO-Government Dialogue project in Kampala. The launch attracted representatives from Ministries, Departments and Agencies, Media, academia and Civil Society Organizations.    Mr. Abu baker Wandera, the GEF SGP Focal person in Uganda informed members that GEF SGP has made 21 years in Uganda and due to this maturity, Uganda had been given due exit from Small Grants Programme. Members were therefore urged to focus on developing big proposals that can help Uganda to transit from Small Grants Programme (SGP).  He decried the declining level of resource flows from Global Environment Facility (GEF) t...

1.        Background The independent evaluation office of the GEF (IEO) evaluated the GEF CSO Network for the period 2014-2016 concluding, inter alia , network’s activities were distant from the country level where GEF projects make their mark and from where the majority of Network CSOs operate. Therefore the evaluation recommended that the GEF CSO Network should continue to build itself as a mechanism for strengthening civil society participation in the GEF at the global, regional and national levels, paying particular attention to: membership development, capacity building and value-added working relationships across the GEF partnership. 2.        Objective   In this context, EMLI with financial support to a tune of USD 30,000 from GEFSGP, UNDP and Government of Uganda is undertaking a 2 year project June 2017- March 2019) with a goal to establish   CSO-Government dialogue platform to strengthen supp...