Tayari News
KAMPALA – The National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA), a principal agency in Uganda for regulating, monitoring, supervising and coordinating all activities relating to the environment, has launched the 2025/26-2029/30 Strategic Plan.
The plan includes reducing degraded wetlands, increasing compliance to 85%, expanding environmental mainstreaming among lead agencies, enhancing farmer resilience to climate change, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, among others.
The implementation of this plan will cost UGX 295 billion, with UGX 270 billion appropriated by the Government of Uganda, leaving a funding gap of UGX 24 billion.
The plan prioritises sustainable environmental management envisioned in Uganda’s Vision 2040 and the National Development Plan IV.
During the period 2025/26 to 2029/30, NEMA will focus on five key areas, which include environmental governance and coordination, Environmental quality and ecological integrity, environmental education, awareness, and mainstreaming, Compliance with environmental laws and standards, and Institutional systems and capacity.
Crosscutting issues such as gender, climate change, innovation and ICT, disability, anti-corruption, and HIV/AIDS have been integrated into the plan.