Synopsis

Drawing on Uganda’s rich baseline of wetland data and poverty mapping, this report provides a detailed examination of the links between ecosystem services and the location of poor communities and presents practical lessons for policy-makers across government.

Key Findings

本出版物中的地图和分析主要是说明性的,但确实支持以下结论:

  • 以前未使用的数据的详细映射证实,湿地在每个地区以及乌干达的每个公民都提供了多种好处。
  • 从湿地中获得的产品的多样性范围从少数到多达24种产品范围广泛。在全国各地,人们对湿地的有害影响程度也很大。
  • 对选定的贫困区指标的空间分析在子县级别上没有明确的模式 - 尽管人们认为最贫穷的地区总是最降低的,但人们认为最贫穷。
  • 对贫困和湿地图的覆盖分析对于确定具有相似贫困和湿地特征的子县最有用,因此可能会采用类似的湿地管理方法和干预策略。量化湿地产品和服务价值的经济研究可以与贫困和湿地图有关,以评估特定湿地在减少贫困中的经济潜力。

建议

进一步加强乌干达的数据和分析能力的供应将通过改善湿地管理计划和优先次序工作,尤其是在这两个领域的优先级,为该国的人民和自然资源基础提供重大回报:

  • 完成国家湿地信息系统的数据输入和收集,提高数据一致性,并更新湿地和土地覆盖信息。
  • 加强湿地管理部门内的分析,地图和经济评估工作。

Improvements in lives, livelihoods, and wetland health could result directly from this supply of new maps and analyses. Specifically, government agencies could use the information to act on decision-making opportunities in these four areas:

  • Incorporate poverty information into the existing system for selecting wetlands for priority management interventions.
  • Consider wetland management as part of local poverty reduction efforts, such as creating new livelihood strategies.
  • 促进“双赢”合作,以支持负责健康,水,卫生,农业,能源和环境的机构之间的其他目标。
  • 制作贫困和湿地地图,分析是地区一级当地决策的核心组成部分。

Executive Summary

Uganda has abundant natural wealth. Its varied wetlands, including grass swamps, mountain bogs, seasonal floodplains, and swamp forests, provide services and products worth hundreds of millions of dollars per year, making them a vital contributor to the national economy. Ugandans use wetlands—often called the country’s “granaries for water”—to sustain their lives and livelihoods. They rely on them for water, construction material, and fuel, and use them for farming, fishing, and to graze livestock. Wetlands supply direct or subsistence employment for 2.7 million people, almost 10 percent of the population. In many parts of the country, wetland products and services are the sole source for livelihoods and the main safety net for the poorest households. Sustainable management of Uganda’s wetlands is thus not only sound economic policy, it is also a potent strategy for poverty reduction.

Recognizing this, Uganda’s Government was the first to create a national wetlands policy in Africa. Over the past decade, Uganda has also instituted the National Wetlands Information System, a rich database on the use and health of Uganda’s wetlands which in its coverage and detail is unique in Africa.

该出版物是建立在这些举措的基础上,通过将湿地数据库的信息与乌干达统计局开发的开拓性贫困位置地图相结合。新的地图和随附的分析将帮助政策制定者根据其主要用途,条件和贫困状况对湿地进行分类,并确定最需要贫穷的湿地管理干预措施的领域。所产生的信息也可以纳入国家减贫策略和资源管理计划中。

This is an innovative, pragmatic approach to integrating efforts to reduce poverty while sustaining ecosystems which has implications for improving policy-making in Uganda and beyond.

The publication is aimed at high level decision-makers and has two key purposes:

  • 为了展示负责乌干达湿地的决策者,在这些湿地中,可持续的湿地管理人员可能会对减少贫困产生最大的影响,以及从贫困地图中得出的社区概况如何促进更好地为穷人服务的湿地干预措施。贫困和湿地指标的地图可以作为不同政府部门之间的桥梁,因为它们考虑实现多个社会经济和环境目标的机会。
  • 为了显示涉及贫困的决策者如何从乌干达的国家湿地信息系统中得出的地图可以帮助识别具有退化风险或经济潜力的湿地,并展示这些地区与不同的贫困水平的重合。这种知识可以改善将湿地问题纳入减贫策略的努力。

Mapping a Better Future: How Spatial Analysis Can Benefit Wetlands and Reduce Poverty in Uganda使用一种创新的方法来整合有关贫困和湿地使用的空间数据。该报告借鉴了乌干达丰富的湿地数据和贫困地图的基线,对生态系统服务与贫困社区的位置与贫困社区的位置和为政府的决策者提供了实用课程的详细检查。

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