Uganda - Local Government Development Program Project : environmental assessment

E-292 THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA MINISTRY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENVIRONMENTAL MITIGATION PLAN FOR INVESTMENTS UNDER THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (LGDP) MINISTRY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT P. O. BOX 7073 KAMPALA UGANDA OCTOBER 1999   Table of Contents Page 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................I 1.1 Project Development Objective and Description ................................................I 1.1.1 Project Development Objective ................................................I 1.1.2 Project Components ................................................2 2. ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT .......................................... . . 5 2.1 Environmental Aspects of the Project ...............................................5 2.1.1 Environmental Checklists ................................................5 2.1.2 Technology Choice ................................................6 2.1.3 Scale of Investments ...............................................6 2.2 Beneficiary Participation ................................................6 2.3 Monitoring and Evaluation ................................................7 2.4 Capacity to Implement the Environmental Mitigation Plan ...............................................7 2.5 Conclusion ................................................8 3. ENVIRONMENTAL CHECK LIST FOR COMMUNITY/PARISH DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEES ...............................................9 4. ENVIRONMENTAL CHECK LIST FOR SUB COUNTY AND DIVISION PLANNfNG COMMITTEES ............................................... 18 5. ENVIRONMENTAL CHECK LIST FOR DISTRICT AND MUNICIPAL PLANNING COMMITTEES ............................................... 25 -11-  I I I  1. INTRODUCTION The Government of Uganda is committed to decentralization of the planning, delivery and management of basic services and expansion of the role of the private sector as part of its strategy to stimulate economic growth and reduce poverty. This commitment is entrenched in various legislative documents, most significantly, the Constitution, 1995 and the Local Governments Act, 1997. The decentralization of the recurrent budget has been essentially completed. The Government now wishes to proceed as quickly as possible with the decentralization of the development budget based on the following key principles: * decisions related to investments in infrastructure services, that are the responsibility of the Local Governments (LGs), being made by the local councils and benefiting communities; * selection, planning, implementation, and management of infrastructure investments be based on an inclusive and participatory decision making and a demand, and performance driven process; * disbursement of funds for local service investment to be handled by district, sub-county, municipal and division councils, the corporate bodies in the local government system; * delivery of services to be provided by the private sector where this can be done more effectively and efficiently than by local govemments or parastatals; and