Capacity Building

Fredskorpset (FK Norway) is an exchange programme under the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that promotes mutual capacity building between North and South. GRID-Arendal is about to complete its third staff exchange under this programme in 2011. The FK programme promotes ‘partnerships for development’ as a way to strengthen the understanding between North and South and to increase the expertise both at GRID-Arendal and at collaborating partner institutions in addressing international environmental issues.

In order to strengthen the use of environmental assessment reports in policy-making, a pilot project was completed in 2010 to repackage findings from a number of Ugandan environmental assessments into a handbook that highlight key pieces of legislation and research materials as well as policy gaps and overlaps. The overall purpose of the handbook Uganda’s Environment and Natural Resources: Enhancing Parliament’s Oversight is to guide parliamentary debate and the formulation of environmental laws and policies, thereby strenghtening the oversight function of the Ugandan parliament.