The objectives of the training program are to improve understanding and capacity of Ugandan policy-makers, from parliamentarians to staff of Trade and Industry Ministry and Environment Ministry on how to develop and implement a more climate-aware, trade-driven and food security-enhancing National Industrial Development Policy.
Objective
The objectives of the training program are to improve understanding and capacity of Ugandan policy-makers, from parliamentarians to staff of Trade & Industry Ministry and Environment Ministry on how to develop/revise and implement a more climate-aware, trade-driven and food security-enhancing National Industrial Development Policy.
Module 1: Issues analysis and concepts
This module introduces participants to agro-industrial development, food security, trade and climate change. It provides concepts and definitions in this regard; and discusses the status of these critical issues in Uganda and the EAC region. The goal is to enhance understanding of participants on how agro-industrial development can be more climate-aware, trade-driven and food security-enhancing in Uganda and the EAC region.
Module 2: Institutional analysis
The module allows stakeholders attending the Uganda on-demand Training Workshop to familiarize themselves with international institutions and their key areas of work related to agroindustry, climate change, food security and trade. The emphasis will be on encouraging holistic, substantive, collective and pragmatic thinking by the participants that enables them to be familiar with and take advantage of relevant regional and international instruments/bodies dealing with agro-industry, climate, food security and trade.
Specifically, the module has the objective to: increase the knowledge and understanding of some key relevant regional and international institutions and/or bodies responsible of policymaking and/or policy implementation mechanisms in the area of agro-industrial development, climate change, food security and trade.
Module 3: Policy analysis
The module aims to increase understanding of the stakeholders attending the national Uganda training workshop on relevant national and EAC wide policies on industry and/or agro-industrial development in the context of the climate, food, trade interface. This will enable participants to recognize contradictions, overlaps, gaps, etc., in the different policies and become familiar with effective policy responses to deal with agro-industrial development under the climate, food, trade nexus.
Module 4: Simulation exercise
The emphasis of this module is to encourage holistic, substantive, collective and pragmatic thinking by the participants that enables them to sharpen skills to interact with institutions at the national, regional and global level platforms dealing with how Uganda policy-makers can take forward processes and procedures leading to a holistic revision of the National Industrial Development Policy.