Hello. I am Shuaib Lwsa, an associate professor in urban planning, urban sustainability on climate change at Makerere University University in Uganda. I have been involved in a series of activities that have culminated into planning for climate change and formulation of the Climate Action Plan for Kampala city since 2008. In the last video you received an overview of planning for climate change adaptation and mitigation in cities. Do you still remember the steps of planning for climate change in cities? In this video, we will take a closer look at how Kampala city developed its climate change action plan from greenhouse gas emissions inventory and vulnerability assessment to setting up on objectives and targets. I will also explain how climate change actions were assessed and selected. And I will describe the mechanisms for implementation, monitoring and evaluation. At the end of this video you should be able to discuss how these climate change planning process is done in practice. Kampala, in Uganda, is one of the pioneering cities on the African continent to develop climate change action for both mitigation and adaptation. The motivation for action is because the city is facing challenges that include: Rapid development, high levels of urban poverty, demographic change and increasing climate change impacts. Therefore, the city has to address climate change risk accordingly. But how exactly did the city of Kampala conduct the climate change planning process? Through a participative process led by Kampala Capital City Authority and funded by the French Development Agency. There were consultations within Kampala Capital City Authority directorates and other public agencies. These discussions were complemented by public consultation workshops and the piloting of communication tools about climate change. A dialogue meeting was organized at the end of the profiling of climate change to get feedback on the different elements that can be integrated into Climate Action Plan. Kampala conducted a vulnerability assessment to climate change in 2008. Based on this vulnerability assessment, Kampala is vulnerable to a number of risks. Extreme rainfall that leads to frequent flash floods. More hot days than monthly average, hot days leading to heat waves and the extreme weather events are compounded by a number of factors that include the patterns of land-use development, location, inadequate infrastructure, nature of building practices and social vulnerabilities. The livelihoods and the urban population in general, in Kampala are at high risk. A flood risk management strategy forwarded in 2012 that looked at the drivers of flood risk and the options for reducing flood risk by adapting to climate change. And in 2013 an economic evaluation of climate change impacts was also connected to estimate the cost of action or inaction at city level. The evaluation shows that the cost of adapting to climate change in Kampala will increase from seven point three million dollars in 2013 to between 33 and one hundred and two million U.S. dollars equivalent by 2050 if measures for reducing the risk on impacts are not put in place. Then, a city level greenhouse gas emissions inventory was conducted to determine the emission levels by sectors in the city using a global protocol for community scale greenhouse gas emissions inventory. The assessments were followed by profiling an additional assessment of climate change actions, actions that were assessed based on four principles: the reduction or avoidance of emissions, the benefits to communities, reduction of climate risk and transformation of city management approaches. Finally, the Climate Change Action Plan was formulated in the run up to the Paris meeting in 2015. The Climate Change Action charter was signed by different actors in the city and Kampala City Authority committed in Paris as one of the cities to take action on mitigating climate change. In Kampala capital city, Climate Action plan was approved with a number of objectives: Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Change Mitigation and Urban Mobility and Energy Transitions. In respect to adaptation, the objectives include: Reduction of the number of people exposed to the impacts of climate change, Reduction of losses resulting from climate change related disasters, to devolve well-planned and integrated neighborhoods, to reduce damaged public infrastructure and interruptions to day to day city operations, to revitalize ecosystems and public spaces. The climate change mitigation actions have specific targets that include: a 10% reduction in energy demand from local production. A 20% decrease in use of charcoal for cooking and move towards renewable energy. A 22% reduction of energy intensity as business as usual scenario for Kampala Capital City Authority as an institution. To summarize, the Kampala Climate Change Action plan addresses three issues: short to long term adaptation to climate change impacts, shifting to a low emissions development pathway for the city, and transforming the threat of climate change into opportunity for residents where possible. A total of 50 actions from the sectors of waste, energy, mobility, land use and built environment as well as crosscutting issues included in the Kampala Climate Change Action Plan. The Kampala Climate Change Action Plan provides information about the specific actions, the time frame, the approach of implementation of that action and the responsible actor or actors for implementing the action. Thus, a clear structure and responsibility is provided. For example, under the sector of energy, specific actors were outlined such as: Public transportation devolvement systems, light rail or bus rapid transit and formulating an integrated urban mobility plan. For each action the schedule for the implementation is specified and the strategy for monitoring short to long term actions defined. Furthermore, the responsible authorities are identified and these include Kampala Capital City Authority, the Ministry of Works, the private sector, academic institutions, communities all of which are included, among others. To achieve the objectives of the action plan, a number of steps have been defined. One of which is to create enabling environment by Kampala Capital City Authority. Enabling environment in terms of improving city specific policy, regulations, creating incentives and community development programs that are geared towards reducing climate risk. To initialize this process, Kampala Capital City Authority successfully received a grant from the European Union in early 2017 to create an enabling environment on city level to create policies that would implement the Climate Action Plan. On the approaches on how to best implement the actions were also identified and these include: Kampala Capital City Authority leading on climate action by example, as a role model on actions like managing new assets for KCCA on facilities, green procurement and energy mix for the institution, as some of the areas in which it's leading by example. Partnerships are considered important as another strategy, especially public-private with government agencies and with communities. In addition, having development partners and academics or other institutions is envisaged to help realise these actions. Additionally, sharing of information or knowledge is important in raising awareness encouraging in video actions by stakeholders which are all important to implement the climate change action plan. Last but not least, innovation and technology are critically important for developing adequate climate change action plan and putting it into implementation. This is meant to evolve as more learning about specific mitigation and adaptation measures comes by. To measure the progress, six steps have been developed. Stakeholders will have to report their actions and monitor the diversity of outreach at different levels. Internal and external monitoring by implementing lead agencies to continuously assess the actions. Assessing what and how many people have been reached and what platforms have been used for different actions. And to date, progress is being documented. Pilot projects initialising and those that existed are being spot up. Best practices will be documented and shared for lessons learned. In this video, I- you have seen how the city of Kampala developed its climate action plan. Having gone through the steps, the assessment, the selection measures for implementation, the plan and actions to implement as well as monitoring an evaluation. Would you want to learn more about Climate Change planning in Kampala? In the next video, I'll focus on the experiences of Kampala in planning Climate Change Mitigation Actions, particularly on accounting for greenhouse gas emissions and how that accounting was used in developing the climate change action plan.