- Uganda beats other African countries to win NDC awards.
- The NDC Investment Awards Ceremony took place at COP27 in Egypt.
Uganda has been awarded the best government under the transport sector in the NDC Investment Awards at COP27 for its contribution to reducing emissions in the air through the promotion of electric motorcycles in Kampala Metropolitan Area. The NDC Investment Awards Ceremony took place on Tuesday, 8th of November 2022, at COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
The first-of-their-kind awards are designed to reward the governments, institutions, and individuals driving transactions and improving the investment readiness of Africa’s NDC projects requiring $3trn of investment by 2030.
In this Best Transport NDC Initiative of the Year category, Uganda beat Egypt’s Electric Light Rail Network Project, Zambia’s Green Urban Mobility Solution for Zambian City Integrated Tramway (ZAMCIT) Project, Kenya’s Electric Motorcycles project, Egypt’s Locally Produced Electric Buses Initiative, Côte d’Ivoire’s Developing a Policy on Soot-free Buses and Electric Vehicles Program, Democratic Republic of Congo’s Developing a “green” Value Chain for EVs Initiative, Zambia’s Non-Motorized Transport (NMT) Strategy, Eswatini’s Transportation Emission Reduction Project and the Rehabilitation, Modernization and Improvement of the Services of the Trans-Maghreb Railway Line Project of Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.