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Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT II), is a follow-up project to the first phase of the Capacity Building Initiatives for Transparency (CBIT I). The second phase (CBIT II), which was launched on November 1st, 2024 aims to address the gaps that CBIT I was unable to deal with.

CBIT II is a USD 1.5 million project that will run from October 2024 to February 2028. The project is implemented by the Ministry of Water and Environment—Climate Change Department (MWE-CCD) in collaboration with Africa Innovations Institute (AfrII) and funded by the Global Environment Facility GEF) through Conservation International (CI).

The Project Technical Coordination Committee (PTCC), during its second meeting held at the Climate Change Department on March 11, 2025, reviewed the project implementation progress for Q3 FY2024/25 and guided the activities for Q4 FY2024/25.

The PTCC constitutes GHG Sector Focal Points from key Ministries, Departments and Agencies

(MDAs), academia, private sector and CSOs/NGOs.

The key deliverables of the project include

  • operationalization of the greenhouse gas data-sharing agreements signed in CBT I,
  • capacity building and engagement of state and non-state actors in GHG inventory, and
  • development of priority emission factors for higher-tier reporting

 

CBIT II is intended to strengthen institutional and technical capacity of Uganda to respond to the Enhanced Transparency

Framework (EFT) requirements of the Paris Agreement.

The objective is to be achieved through delivery of the

outputs and outcomes detailed in the CBIT II project

Results Framework.

The PTCC Chair, Commissioner of the Climate Change Department, Mrs. Margaret Athieno Mwebesa, reiterated the importance of CBIT II project in supporting enhancement of capacity of Uganda to accurately report on her greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions and strengthening the transparency reporting to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

“Look beyond the GHG inventories and incorporate other aspects of transparency reporting,” she said, noting, “the Uganda Carbon Trading Regulations were gazetted in February 2025 and therefore the need to have a GHG inventory baseline is more eminent.”

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