Integrating sustainability into PRSPs:
the case of Uganda

Summary

The Ugandan Poverty Reduction Strategy emerged from the Government’s revision of its National Poverty Eradication Action Plan. It has strong national ownership and political commitment. Drafting was an iterative and participatory process. But a number of important poverty-environment links were overlooked in an early draft. DFID funded international and national consultants to assist the Ugandan National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) to strengthen their engagement in the drafting process, articulate the poverty-environment linkages, and lobby those leading on the process to strengthen integration of the environment and long term sustainability into the PEAP, to improve the achievement and sustainability of the intended outcomes. This has resulted in a strengthened PEAP and is reflected in the approved Poverty Reduction Strategy. DFID is now funding further technical assistance to ensure that these issues are also reflected in the implementation. As the process develops, and there is adherence to the principles of strategic planning for sustainable development, it is anticipated that this will increasingly move the PEAP towards a sustainable development strategy.

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The document is part of DFID's series of Key Sheets on Sustainable Development