• Understanding how and to what extent climate risks affect different stakeholders along a selected value chain
• Understanding the current climate risk management strategies along the value chain and how those could be enhanced through greater vertical and horizontal integration between and among the value chain actors
• Raising awareness and building capacity of key stakeholders along the value chain on climate risk management.

Through several innovation phases, Makerere University and its partners have:

• Mapped the coffee value chain, including process, functions, actors, geography, resources, governance structure and vulnerability to climate risks.
• Conducted three ‘dialogue theatres’ with coffee value chain stakeholders to understand how different stakeholders along the coffee value chain are exposed to climate risk.
• Conducted a 2-day national workshop for stakeholders in the coffee sector.
• Produced and disseminate a final synthesis report summarizing the process and key findings.
• Produced a policy brief on climate risk and agriculture value chains in Uganda and one issue brief which identifies priority issues and knowledge gaps for climate risk management along the coffee chain.
• Arranged a press conference led by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives in collaboration with the Ministries of Agriculture , Animal Industry and Fisheries , the Ministry of Water and Environment , and the Office of the Prime Minister to highlight the outcomes.

This Project was submitted for Round 2 of CDKN’s Innovation Fund. The fund is designed as open and competitive to provide fast-moving support for innovative initiatives in the field of climate change and development. For Innovation Fund projects, lead applicants must include African institutions, preferably government institutions, and must present ‘game-changing’ ideas.

Lead: Makerere University

Project Partners: Uganda Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, International Institute for Sustainable Development

Timeframe: 7 months, starting Jan 2013

Funding: £88 306

Further Resources:

• Project launch press release
• Project launch minutes
• Climate resilient value chains briefing note: promoting an integrated approach to climate adaptation:
  lessons from the coffee value chain in Uganda
• Climate resilient value chains briefing note 2: Agro-Value Chain Finance and Climate Adaptation:
  The role of the banking sector
• Project launch news feature on Uganda Broadcasting Corporation:

http://youtu.be/PsBpEkEi7-g