Bridging the climate finance gap for smallholder Ugandan farmers

Financial Sector Deepening Uganda (FSDU) commissioned a Genesis study of the climate change adaptation ecosystem in Uganda. The FSDU’s aim was to better understand the climate finance gap in Uganda and help smallholder farmers build their resilience to climate change by improving their access to climate and green finance.

Climate change adaptation is a new area of work for the FSDU and through this study, Genesis helped to improve FSDU’s understanding of the Ugandan situation by:

• Mapping the climate change adaptation funding ecosystem in Uganda.
• Showing how climate change is impacting key value-chains in the agriculture and livestock, forestry and fisheries, and aquaculture sectors.
• Mapping the financing needs of actors in these value chains, to what extent they are being met and identifying the gaps.
• Assessing the opportunities for FSDU to support climate change adaptation financing and programming.

Genesis produced a diagnostic study report of the climate change adaptation ecosystem in Uganda. We facilitated a strategy brainstorming session with FSDU and the project steering committee to evaluate the FSDU programming opportunities in climate change adaptation. 

In addition, we produced a climate change adaptation sub-programmatic strategy document for FSDU. It recommended focus areas where FSDU can support smallholder farmers to adapt to climate change by accessing climate and green finance.