[{"bbox": [97, 153, 1134, 260], "category": "Text", "text": "and social development as well as climate change. The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), supported by the EU, has started this planning process with Arua City Council. However, funding for implementation is still needed. Experience from other donor-related projects shows that municipalities often do not have sufficient financial and human resources to successfully support planning processes."}, {"bbox": [97, 271, 620, 298], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action will address the following specific problems:"}, {"bbox": [97, 302, 1134, 356], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Lack of solutions for reliable, hygienically safe water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure for both refugees and the Ugandan population in Arua City and surrounding districts,"}, {"bbox": [97, 359, 1134, 440], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Deterioration in the living conditions and WASH supply for the population, especially women and other vulnerable groups, because of climate change in the form of more frequent and more severe extreme weather events (droughts, road rains, floods), threatening to pollute water resources, wetlands etc.,"}, {"bbox": [97, 443, 1134, 523], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Lack of urban infrastructure planning that considers, on the one hand, the high population growth and, on the other hand, the expected effects of climate change and necessary improvements in terms of water and sanitation infrastructure, but also waste management and surface drainage."}, {"bbox": [97, 540, 1073, 593], "category": "Text", "text": "Identification of main stakeholders and corresponding institutional and/or organisational issues (mandates, potential roles, and capacities) to be covered by the Action:"}, {"bbox": [97, 599, 1134, 707], "category": "List-item", "text": "- *The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (MoFPED)*: is mandated to coordinate the mobilisation of external resources (loans and grants) for financing Government priority programmes/projects, monitor aid effectiveness, follow up implementation of donor terms and conditions and resource use, and provide the first contact point within GOU for development partners."}, {"bbox": [97, 711, 1134, 898], "category": "List-item", "text": "- *The Ministry of Water and Environment (MWE)*: has the overall responsibility of the development, management, and regulation of water and environment resources in Uganda, MWE oversees the water, sanitation and solid waste management sectors and provides guidelines for infrastructure planning & development as well as policy recommendations. In addition, the MWE has the strong mandate to address the issue of climate change. It hosts the Climate Change Department (CCD), that aims to strengthen Uganda's implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol (KP)."}, {"bbox": [97, 903, 1134, 1011], "category": "List-item", "text": "- *The National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC)*: is a parastatal institution and according to its statutes, designed as an economically self-supporting organization. NWSC is responsible for the implementation and operation of water and sanitation infrastructure in large and medium-sized towns and considered as one of the leading water utilities in the region."}, {"bbox": [97, 1015, 1134, 1097], "category": "List-item", "text": "- *The Arua City Council (ACC)*: Is an urban authority responsible for orderly provision of social services for its population as well as regulation of developments planning and implementation for the city infrastructure developments like roads solid waste management, drainage management."}, {"bbox": [97, 1101, 1134, 1157], "category": "List-item", "text": "- *The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM)* is amongst others the key institution to coordinate the development of capacities for prevention, preparedness, and response to natural and human-induced Disasters and Refugees."}, {"bbox": [97, 1161, 1134, 1242], "category": "List-item", "text": "- *Target group of the Action*: is the population of Arua city and parts of surrounding areas, including refugees, particularly women and other vulnerable groups whose living conditions and resilience will be positively impacted by the Action."}, {"bbox": [97, 1246, 1134, 1325], "category": "List-item", "text": "- *Other key stakeholders* include the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), World bank USMID project, UNHCR, Arua district local government, Maracha district local government, Terego district local government, NEMA"}, {"bbox": [86, 1361, 605, 1394], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION"}, {"bbox": [86, 1427, 509, 1459], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.1 Objectives and Expected Outputs"}, {"bbox": [97, 1486, 1134, 1566], "category": "Text", "text": "The Overall Objective (Impact) of the Action is to enhance the living conditions in displacement affected communities by building the resilience of water resources and the populations to the negative effects of climate change through construction of resilient urban development infrastructures."}, {"bbox": [1038, 1682, 1142, 1707], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 8 of 21"}]