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The TNA process enabled Uganda to identify priority sectors, evaluate barriers to technology adoption, and develop actionable strategies to support the uptake and diffusion of climate technologies.
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Uganda completed its TNA in 2023. Uganda’s updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) increased its emissions-reduction ambition to about 24.7 % by 2030 and links technology deployment with sector targets (irrigation, electrification, forest restoration) to build resilience.
Uganda is highly vulnerable to climate change despite having very low greenhouse gas emissions, and its economy remains heavily reliant on agriculture and natural resources.
Under the TNA process, Uganda has prioritised technologies for both adaptation and mitigation. Adaptation priorities include crop breeding, community irrigation systems, rainwater harvesting and forest-land restoration through practices like farmer-managed natural regeneration.
For mitigation, Uganda selected technologies such as solar rooftop systems, efficient institutional cook-stoves and institutional bio-latrines (biogas) as key. The TNA also identifies institutional, financial and capacity-barriers to uptake of climate technologies, emphasising the need for enabling frameworks, private‐sector engagement and bankable projects to access climate finance.
Priority technologies for adaptation
Agriculture
- Responsive agricultural extension
- Community irrigation systems
- Crop breeding for climate change adaptation
Water
- Deep well extraction
- Rainwater harvesting
- Surface runoff harvesting
LULUCF & Forestry
- Promotion of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) for forest landscape restoration
- Integrated pest management in forest plantations through promoting mixed-species plantations
- Promoting Forest based enterprises e.g. bee keeping/apiary; butterfly farming, fruit trees production; ecotourism
Priority technologies for mitigation
Energy
- Solar rooftop systems
- Efficient institutional cook stoves
- Bio-latrines for institutions (using biogas technology)





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Uganda National Council for Science and Technology
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Maxwell Otim Onapa
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