Uganda's Fourth National Development Plan (#NDPIV ) places strong emphasis on Agro-industrialisation, environmental sustainability, and inclusive growth. Carbon farming sits at the intersection of these priorities, offering a pathway to boost farm productivity and competitiveness while advancing national mitigation goals, landscape restoration, and resilience. Today, technical officers from Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) have started a three-day training to advance climate action, agricultural productivity, and rural development through the development of national carbon farming guidelines. Delivering the keynote on behalf of the Executive Director, the Manager, Production, Trade and Tourism, Mr Ronald Kaggwa, underscored that carbon farming presents an opportunity to build a more resilient and productive agricultural system while contributing meaningfully to climate mitigation. He emphasised that these guidelines must be more than another policy document sitting on a shelf, rather should provide clear, actionable answers to the fundamental questions that will determine real impact: 1. What qualifies as a carbon farming practice? 2. Which practices suit different farming systems and ecological zones? 3. How should carbon benefits be measured and verified? 4. Who owns the resulting carbon benefits? 5. How should farmers and other land users participate? 6. How should benefits and revenues be shared? 7. What safeguards are needed to protect land rights, livelihoods, food security, and biodiversity? 8. Which institutions will regulate, monitor, verify, and enforce compliance? Getting these answers right will be critical to ensuring carbon farming delivers real value for Uganda's farmers, ecosystems, and climate commitments. @mofpedU @OPMUganda @sdgs_ug @MAAIF_Uganda @FAO @PSF_Uganda @narouganda @StatisticsUg @GroUganda @min_waterUg @NAGRC_DB #PlanningForDevelopment

The National Planning Authority, in collaboration with UNECA @ECA_OFFICIAL, through its Sustainable Development and Integrated Planning Section (SDIPS) and the Institute for Development Economics & Planning @IDEPOfficial, is conducting a week-long training on the Integrated Planning and Reporting Toolkit (IPRT) at Golden Tulip Hotel, Kampala. This training follows a virtual Multi-Country Peer Learning & Applied Training last week, during which Uganda participated alongside Ghana, Morocco, China, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Botswana, Eswatini & Zimbabwe as the initial core Countries under @ECA_OFFICIAL's engagement. The hands-on training that includes participants across Central Government, Local Government and Development Partners aims to: complete the digitisation and validation of Fourth National Development Plan results framework within the IPRT Platform; align #NDPIV indicators with SDGs & Agenda 2063; Strengthen monitoring & reporting for Voluntary National Reviews, Voluntary Local Reviews, & Agenda 2063 reporting; Assessment vertical and horizontal coherence across National, Programmes, MDA, & Local Government Plans; and Build understanding of the Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF) Module for linking Development Plans to Budget. NPA will continue coordinating Uganda’s comprehensive & Integrated Development Planning in a domestically contextualised manner, towards the achievement of the NDPIV & the Ten-fold Growth ambitions. @mofpedU ,@OPMUganda ,@MODVA_UPDF, @sdgs_ug , @MoLGUganda @MoWT_Uganda ,@MEMD_Uganda @BOU_Official @Moglsd_UG, @MinofHealthUG ,@MTWAUganda , @mia_uga ,@ministry_lands ,@STIsecretariat ,@mtic_uganda , @min_waterUg , @MAAIF_Uganda ,@Educ_SportsUg ,@StatisticsUg ,@UNDPUganda @UNDP @UNUganda ,@unwomenuganda ,@UNFPAUganda , @MoICT_Ug , @Entebbe_MC , @CouncilLira , @KamuliDistrict #PlanningForDevelopment.