The Biodiversity Finance Initiative - Phase II (BIOFIN Uganda)

About this project

At country level, the programme is designed to contribute to sustainable natural resource management, ecosystem and community resilience to climate change and livelihoods improvement. At global level, it is aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and UNDP strategic plan, BIOFIN results framework. At national level, the programme is aligned to Uganda’s Vision 2040, the National Biodiversity Strategic Plan (NBSAPII), the National Biodiversity Finance Plan (NBFP), and will contribute to achievement of the Third National Development Plan (NDPIII) objective of protecting, restoring, and maintaining the integrity of degraded fragile ecosystems and increasing the country’s resilience to the impacts of climate change through mobilizing adequate additional financial resources to meet the biodiversity funding gap as well as ensure that fund are used efficiently and effectively to address the biodiversity and ecosystem challenges in biodiversity and conservation and management. The focus for Phase II will be to develop a biodiversity index to inform ecological fiscal transfer mechanisms, support the initiation of Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) programme to enhance the use of economic instruments as incentives for biodiversity conservation and management; and initiate the piloting ecotourism and eco-enterprises for wetlands and Ramsar sites in cities and municipalities in Uganda

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 13Climate Action
• 15Life on Land
• 17Partnerships for the Goals

Published by

United Nations Development Programme · Multilateral

Countries

Uganda

Sectors

Biodiversity

Funded by

GOVERNMENT OF GERMANY, GOVERNMENT OF NORWAY, NORWEGIAN AGENCY FOR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION

Implemented by

UNDP

Accountable

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Published by United Nations Development Programme to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 5 Oct 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-41114-PROJECT-01003155.

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