CSO - GOVERNMENT DIALOGUE

Participants during the GEF CSO Capacity Building workshop Environmental Management for Livelihood Improvement Bwaise Facility (EMLI) and the GEF CSO Network Uganda Chapter supported by Government of Uganda, GEF Small Grants Programme and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) under the CSO-Government Dialogue Project organized a capacity building meeting on 12 September 2017 at Kampala Kolping Hotel to update members on a number of GEF related matters aimed at building member capacity.   The RFP for Eastern Africa, Mr. Robert Bakiika from EMLI informed members about the objective of the meeting; to build members capacity in GEF matters and also identify needs for further capacity development. He said that the network is under pressure to review its membership due to the evolving process were some member organizations have progressed into agencies, hence the need to draw a distinction between GEF CSO network members and agencies. He further informed members that

Members of the steering committee meeting during their project discussion EMLI convened the first steering committee meeting for CSO-Government dialogue project on 11 th /08/2017 at National Environment Management Authority (NEMA). During the meeting, the Terms of Reference for the steering committee, Project Activity work plan for 2017, Project Inception Workshop Report and Needs Assessment tool were presented for technical guidance from the committee. Members discussed and agreed that the steering committee shall ensure effective implementation of the project through providing technical, strategic and financial support. In addition the committee adopted the Terms of Reference, Activity work plan, discussed and took note of the Project Inception Workshop Report and the Needs Assessment tool for GEF Stakeholders. The steering committee further noted that GEF 7 aims to focus on impact programmes. Therefore a proposal was made by one of the members that GEF 7 progra