The Uganda: Investing in Forests and Protected Areas for Climate-Smart Development Project will invest in plantation forestry and wood-based value chains with the aim of enabling plantation forestry to become a strong and self-sustaining economic sector in Uganda. The Ministry of Water and Environment will, as a part of the IFPA-CD Project, carry out a feasibility study on for a long-term Sustainable Financing Mechanism/ Model for Plantation Forestry (SFMPF) and wean the subsector from short term project based financing.  The study will build on the experiences from previous financing mechanisms such as SPGS, as well as the aspirations of the National Tree Fund that is entrenched the National Forestry and Tree Planting Act (2003) but has not been established.