Climate and Development Initiatives (CDI)
Attn. Timothy Byakola

Climate and Development Initiatives is a Non-Governmental Organization established in Uganda to lobby and advocate for relevant policy changes on climate change and sustainable energy issues in Africa.

As one of the civil society organizations working on climate-change in Uganda, CDI has been involved in many national and regional capacity building projects on implementing mechanisms of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Current focus is on building adaptive capacity to climate change impacts in Africa.

CDI coordinated the Climate-Change and Energy Thematic Group of the Uganda Rio+ 10 Coalition. The coalition was a partner in the Global Sustainability Watch Project (A Mainly DANIDA funded project supporting Southern CSOs in following-up implementation of WSSD Outcomes in over 27 Countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia).

CDI is a core member of INFORSE and was regional coordinator for INFORSE – East-Africa until 2014/15. INFORSE_East Africa was also active in the network on the energy component in the Global SUSWATCH project.