{"id":4774,"date":"2023-03-26T22:05:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T22:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/196.43.177.126\/121223\/1\/?p=4774"},"modified":"2023-03-26T22:05:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T22:05:25","slug":"district-environment-information-resource-centers-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nema.go.ug\/en\/district-environment-information-resource-centers-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"District Environment Information Resource Centers Evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In order to increase its visibility in the communities, The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) through the NEMA Library decided to establish District Environment Information&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Resource Centers (DEIRC) in more than 114 Local governments in Uganda. The main purpose of these DEIRCs was to provide environmental information for development planning, community&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>mobilization, education, awareness and as act avenues for sharing environment information with other non-governmental organizations operating within these districts and cities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By 2006, 25 functional Environmental Information Resource Centers in 25 focus Districts had been established in Northern, Eastern, Western and Central regions of Uganda. These were provided&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>with equipment that included computers and their accessories, photocopiers, printers, television sets and digital cameras were to assist in acquiring, processing, organizing, storing, accessing and&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>disseminating environmental information.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2015, the demand for environmental information led to the decision by NEMA management to increase the resource center coverage in the country. A needs survey was carried out and by 2019,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a total of 114 resource centers had been established some of which were provided with shelves.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, NEMA Management decided to carry out an evaluation exercise to assess the resource centers\u2019, performance, efficiency, effectiveness and relevance to the district, strengthen capacity&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in environmental information provision and dissemination and make recommendations for better service delivery. The findings revealed that out of the 114 evaluated resource centers, 56 (49%) were active, 41&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(36%) were semi-active while 17 (15%) were in-active. Despite the numerous challenges faced by some district resource centers; a lot of effort had been undertaken by the resource center managers&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to ensure that the information provided is organized to ease reference. The DEOs further requested&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NEMA to continuously support the centers order meet the increasing demand for environmental information in the districts. The study recommended that the districts address the staff gaps in the&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>centers and also recommended the creation of regional models centers act as information referral&nbsp; centers for the users in the region. Priority should be on uplifting the library sections of the NEMA&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>regional offices and where these are not available; a centrally located model district be proposed&nbsp; and uplifted to a model resource center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\" id=\"Download\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-black-color has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/nema.go.ug\/sites\/all\/themes\/nema\/docs\/NEMA%20Library%20information%20center%20report%202022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/nema.go.ug\/sites\/all\/themes\/nema\/docs\/NEMA%20Library%20information%20center%20report%202022.pdf noopener\">Download File<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to increase its visibility in the communities, The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) through the NEMA Library decided to establish District Environment Information&nbsp; Resource Centers (DEIRC) in more than 114 Local governments in Uganda. 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