Bid notice from UNDP

Mar 03, 2020

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

BACKGROUND:

Over the last years, Uganda's forests have faced severe pressures mainly from agricultural conversion as a result of population increase, urban demand for charcoal and wood fuel, over grazing, uncontrolled timber harvesting and policy failures. National environment Authority (NEMA) reports that over 90% of the households use wood fuel for cooking, (NEMA, 2018). As result, the rate of deforestation is on the rise leading to air pollution, increasing levels of poisonous gases and environmental heat and the resulting effect of Climate change which is being felt now more than ever. According to Ministry of Water and Environment (2016), Forest cover in 1990 was at 24%, in 2000 it was 17 %, 2010 at 13% and in 2015 at 8% which signals that there is enormous decline of forest cover.

The Uganda UNDP Accelerator Lab engaged in consultative activities to identify and map the leading drivers of deforestation. It is evident that there is a gap on access to recent and real-time Data. The official latest formal data on forests was last published in 2016. Data is becoming an integral driver of the economy and overall our day to day activities.

If Data is well harnessed it fuels corporate growth in a fastchanging digital economic environment. Access to real time innovative data will not only trigger prevention and mitigation by various players in the ecosystem, it will also facilitate decision making in a more strategic and coordinated way in order to reverse the rapid rate of deforestation.

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