NEMA launched its Strategic Plan 2025/26-29/30 at Sheraton Hotel, Kampala attended by representatives from government, development partners, embassies and non-governmental organisations among others.

The Strategic Plan direction 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 295billion, with UGX 270billion appropriated by the Government of Uganda, leaving a funding gap of UGX 24billion.Looking ahead, the NEMA’s Strategic Plan prioritised sustainable environmental management envisioned in the Uganda’s Vision 2040 and the National Development Plan IV.

For the FY2025/26 to 2029/30 NEMA will focus on five key areas:

• Environmental governance and coordination
• Environmental quality and ecological integrity
  Environmental education, awareness and mainstreaming
• Compliance with environmental laws and standards, and
• Building 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.