Press release for the Natural Capital Accounting (NCA)

The Government of Uganda is moving towards its vision of resource-led industrialization by developing a set of natural capital accounts for the country. The first of these accounts, the land accounts and water accounts were launched in November 2019 jointly by UBOS, Ministry of Water and Environment, and Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development. Under the Uganda Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) program, the government is
now launching Wood Asset and Forest Resources Accounts, based on the international statistical
standard, System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA). This is the first comprehensive
inventory of Uganda’s wood assets and forest resources. It includes physical and monetary asset
accounts of wood and other selected forestry resources from 1990…..more