Linking the horizontal and vertical EIN
All the EIN activities are carried out within the frame-
work of Uganda’s obligations to national development
goals and targets. Each node continues providing infor-
mation support to national priorities such as the Poverty
Eradication Action Plan (PEAP), which is Uganda’s pov-
erty reduction strategy paper, the National State of the
Environment Report (NSOER) and District State of the
Environment Report (DSOER) processes. Figure 1 high-
lights the linkages at the different levels. It also shows
the links between the government policies and other en-
vironmental information management instruments.
In order to kick start the activities of the network at na-
tional level, it was agreed that the 1:250,000 map sheet
of Mbale should be revised as a collective pilot activity.
Uganda is covered by about 17 map sheets at this scale.
The Mbale map sheet, at that time, covered about 12 dis-
tricts in total – some in their entirety while others only
partially. Each participating institution had to digitize
the information for the data they hold. After computeri-
sation, district or other lower-level specific information
could then be extracted or combined with data from
other collaborating institutions for analysis as required.
Over time, this was expanded to include the map sheets
of Jinja (covering about 10 districts) and Kampala (ap-
proximately 4 districts) at the same scale. The number
of districts in each map sheet has now changed due to
the formation of new districts. To build on the informa-
tion within those map sheets, the network later worked
on updating information of Kumi, Jinja and Luwero
Figure 1. Linkages between the horizontal and vertical environment information network
Adapted from: UNEP/NEMA 2004
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