USAID Adaptation Community Meeting: Uganda Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment: Process and Outcomes

This meeting was held on June 19, 2014. It featured Patricia Caffrey, African and Latin American Resilience to Climate Change (ARCC) Chief of Party, and Hadas Kushnir from US Agency for International Development—Uganda.

Country
Uganda
Projects
ARCC - African and Latin American Resilience to Climate Change
Sectors
Water and Sanitation, Education, Adaptation
Strategic Objective
Adaptation
Topics
Water and Sanitation, Vulnerability Assessment, Climate Risk Management, Adaptation
Region
Africa

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