IFI COVID RELIEF AND RECONSTRUCTION SUPPORT FOR UGANDA pipeline. Total stopped these households from growing income-generating (cash) and perennial food crops, and from setting up new developments. To date, these households are yet to be compensated, and these restrictions on planting and developing their land, left many people impoverished. The pipeline project will put major national parks, wetlands, rivers and lakes, and the livelihoods of millions at risk. It puts at risk several Ramsar Wetlands, including the Murchison Falls-Albert Delta Wetland System and a number of Ramsar sites lying just west of Lake Victoria, including the Lake Nabugabo System, the Nabajjuzi System, and the Sango Bay-Musambwa Island. Oil spills from the EACOP pose the worrying risk of devastating human impacts. About one-third of the pipeline will be built in the Lake Victoria basin, a source of water and livelihoods for up to 40 million people. from burning that oil would release an estimated 34.3 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) per year, an amount roughly equivalent to the carbon footprint of nearly nine coal-fired power plants. It should be noted that women make up 77 percent of farmers in Uganda and that they will be more severely affected by climate change than male farmers, particularly since women currently have less access to resources which may mitigate the effects of climate change, as compared with men - resources such as education, income, land, livestock, and technology. Furthermore, women are often in charge of collecting water, firewood, and other resources for their families, but these resources are directly impacted by climate change, meaning women must travel further and work longer hours to access them during such crises. The construction of the pipeline will unlock commercial exploitation of multiple oil fields in Uganda. Expansion of the fossil fuel industry, and the construction of new oil pipelines is incompatible with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement and manifestly irresponsible at a time of catastrophic impacts of global warming. According to the project’s website, the pipeline will carry 216,000 barrels of crude oil per day at ‘plateau production.’ The emissions 19 Research on the Influence of International Financial Institutions on Uganda’s COVID – 19 Recovery Agenda