Mr. Choice Agaba

Climate scientist: MSc. in Environment and Natural Resources

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holds an MSc. in Environment and Natural Resources (MUK), a BSc in Development studies at Makerere University, and several climate change-related training from the Netherlands, China, Thailand, and India.

He is responsible for budget development /monitoring, technical and financial reporting, records management, supervision of field and technical staff, etc.), design/review, and implementation of project proposals to ensure compliance with donor policies/requirements (such as environmental safeguards, gender, and stakeholder engagements) and make recommendations as necessary, participate in the downscaling of international and national climate change developments to localized and fit-for-purpose contexts, among others.

Dissemination and feedback collection mechanisms of climate information, Development and Dissemination of Optimum Cropping Calendars for Beans, Millet, and Maize Derived for rain-fed Agriculture in Uganda, Enhancing the Adaptive Capacity of Smallholder Farmers and Communities to Effects of Climate Change through Technological, Institutional, and Policy Interventions for Improved Livelihoods part of the working team for Agriculture sector on GHG emissions from soil that fed into the national GHG inventory which informed on national commitments. capacity needs assessment for integrating climate change adaptation into extension services at national and sub-national.

Developing an Integrated Quality Management System (IQMS) dedicated to Green House Gas (GHG), Energy, Water, and Air Quality for Kampala Capital City Authority Research associate collecting data for preparing Uganda’s First Biennial Update Report and Third National Communication.

Climate risk assessment in the production of Irish potatoes and dissemination of climate change information in the districts. Climate-smart opportunities in Nile Breweries supply chains participated in organizing several national and international high-level climate change-related workshops.

He has organized and moderated at the National Climate Smart Agriculture stakeholders’ conference based at National Agricultural Research Laboratories (NARL)- Kawanda

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