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• Development

and

implementation

of

comprehensive publicity programmes for all

stakeholders to raise awareness of the importance

of mountain areas.

Subsequent interventions could include the

development and operationalization of guidelines

for resource mobilization to facilitate increased

investment in mountain areas, through actions that

may include:

• Carrying out comprehensive reviews of Public

Investment Programmes in order to determine

the proportions of investments that go to

mountainous areas, both directly and indirectly;

• Developing budgetary frameworks for Public

Investment Programmes that endeavour to

disaggregate investments destined for mountain

areas, given the fact that there is a tendency to

allocate more investments to lowland areas; and

• Monitoring approaches at all levels to ensure

that mountainous areas receive due attention in

terms of investment allocations and programme

implementation.

Comprehensive assessment of the impacts

of climate change in mountainous areas,

and the vulnerability and adaptive

capacity of mountain communities

Mountain areas are among the most sensitive and

vulnerable ecosystems to the impacts of climate

change. The impacts of climate change on mountain

ecosystems and communities may have far-reaching

consequences including an increase in the incidence

of disasters such as erosion and landslides, which in

turn adversely affect the welfare of local communities.

In some cases, the scale of these events may be

beyond the resilience and adaptive capacity of the

affected communities. A comprehensive assessment

of such impacts and the abilities of communities

to effectively respond can help develop policy

frameworks and guidelines, as well as determining

the requirements for building the capacity of these

communities to respond.

Proposed intervention areas may initially seek to

assess and determine the extent to which mountain

ecosystems will be affected by climate change, on the

basis of which appropriate mitigation and adaptation

measures can be designed, through actions that

include the following:

• Identification of experts to undertake assessments

including, and where possible, enhancing their

capacity through training;

• Identification of specific areas of study or

assessment covering both ecosystems and

development initiatives;

• Mobilization of resources for studies or

assessments from different potential sources

including the public and private sectors; and

• Application of the results of the study or assessment

to develop a comprehensive mitigation and

adaptation framework in mountain regions.

Secondly, intervention may seek to undertake

a comprehensive study of the vulnerability and

adaptive capacity of mountain communities to the

impacts of climate change through:

• Identifying resource persons to undertake the study

and enhancing their capacity through training;

• Identifying specific representative communities

and activities for the study or assessment covering

a range of social and cultural characteristics,

ecosystems and development initiatives;

Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda