Biodiversity information is an integral part of environmental resources that provides a basis for sustainable environmental management planning, policy formulation and decision making. Development sectors related directly or indirectly to biodiversity are dependent on basic scientific data that are collected and collated to enable efficient achievement of objective planning.

Uganda as needs to recognize, protect and manage this natural resource base by improving the knowledge and developing technology, designs, systems, approaches and strategies to contribute to a safer and healthier environment for all Ugandans through establishment of a National Biodiversity Information Facility that facilitates free and universal access to data and information pertaining to Uganda’s