Motokai Communal Land Association (CLA) in Uganda has made significant strides towards sustainability by establishing an apiary with the help of a non-cash award of USD 10,000 courtesy of the MoMo4C Programme.
An international team from IUCN-NL/MoMo4C recently visited ECOTRUST project sites in Uganda to interact with groups that emerged as winners of the previous MoMo4C Call for proposals and to meet other beneficiaries of MoMo4C Uganda Programme in the Murchison landscape.
The Rwentumba Beekeepers Group, a business component of the Rwentumba Community Land Association (CLA), recently underwent a two-day modern beekeeping training facilitated by ECOTRUST and the Hive Uganda. The training took place on the 23rd and 24th of February 2023, with the objective of building the capacity of the group to improve the management of the business and increase production of bee products, ultimately helping them achieve their business objectives.
ECOTRUST’s annual stakeholder event, was held both physically and online in 2022, under the theme of “Resilience in the Face of Increasing Crisis: Strengthening Partnerships for Climate Resilient Landscapes.” The event highlighted the organization’s conservation partnerships and innovations, recognized smallholder farmers and showcased the success of programs such as the Trees for Global Benefit (TGB) program. Presentations by ECOTRUST staff members showcased various conservation projects across the different landcapes of Uganda.
This year’s event, to be held under the theme “Resilience in the face of Increasing Crisis”, will highlight the strategic, collaborative, and innovative conservation partnerships that ECOTRUST has catalyzed to build community resilience to climate change, extreme weather events, and additional stressors in light of the sudden and gradual adverse effects of environmental degradation and climate change processes.
The Environmental Conservation Trust of Uganda (ECOTRUST) intends to dispose off four motor vehicles between the 5th – 16th of September 2022. For more details contact +256 773 857 750.
On October 1, 2022, the Restore Africa program will be launched in Uganda to enable 350,000 farming households to be more climate resilient. Restore Africa will work in 36 districts to improve degraded farms in Southwestern Uganda, Karamoja and Mount Elgon regions.
Katongole Janice is a student of Gayaza High School. She wrote and presented this original essay – a “Call to Action” for all of us to do more in light of Climate Change. Have a read.
My Apologies is a poem written by Beata Ssali, a student of Gayaza High School, Uganda. She performed this very emotional and moving poem at the Climate Change Innovation Challenge Event hosted at her school on the 8th of July 2022. Have a read!
We are in the midst of a global climate crisis, and we want to hear students’ own views on how best they can address an environmental issue within their communities! This call for proposals is targeting secondary schools in the Kampala Metropolitan Area.
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