The Murchison landscape MoMo4C Project is calling for innovative green propositions to support the development of nascent Business Plans of 10 Communal Land Associations (CLA) into full-blown Business Cases for the Sustainable Management of community forests as buffers to the Budongo Forest Reserve -while at the same time, enabling the CLA members to benefit from them.
The report is part of a series of case studies that provide insights into various mechanisms used to increase access to finance for smallholder farmers, SMEs and communities in their efforts to contribute to sustainable landscapes. The case studies focus on the strategies used by various stakeholders to reduce the risks of selected financial flows for investors, intermediaries and recipients. These case studies follow up on recommendations made by participants in the consultative process on innovative finance for sustainable landscapes. The goal is to provide more evidence of successful strategies in order to increase access to finance for smallholder farmers, SMEs and communities.
UNDP is partnering with ECOTRUST to set up and implement a payment for environmental services (PES) facility for the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) project- based on a similar collaborative partnership (2014-2016) for implementing a viable PES facility for ecosystem-based adaption to Climate Change in the Mt. Elgon area – with […]
ECOTRUST through the Kiiha partnership is supporting the conservation, restoration, and protection of the Kiiha catchment area, one of the major sources of water in the Albertine region of Uganda.
ECOTRUST, working with local schools and religious institutes in and around Masindi district, mobilized 17.6 ha of land to support the planting of over 7000 indigenous tree seedlings by women and youth groups living within the ten forest communities of Ongo, Tengele, Motokayi, Kaitampisi, Kyamasuka, Bineneza, Siiba, Sonso, Rwentumba and Alimugonza – as part of the MOMO4C Gendered green investment campaign 2021 from the 5 – 12th May 2021.
30 ECOTRUST Staff participated in a five-day Gender Action Learning System (GALS) Methodology training facilitated by GALS facilitators from Oxfam, CEFORD, Poro Poro and Wadelai Empowerment Learning Centers (ELCs) in Hoima district from 19th to the 23rd of April 2021. Gender Action Learning System (GALS) is a structured community-led empowerment […]
The 1998 Land Act of Uganda spelled out that a given community with an identified common resource can form a Communal Land Association (CLA) to collectively manage the resource for the good of the community. The different resources included grazing lands, communal hunting grounds and forests. In 2001, a Masindi […]
The 2020 ECOTRUST Annual Stakeholders’ event was held virtually on the 21st of December 2020 under the theme “Business Development for Sustainable Forest Management,” focusing on ECOTRUST’s efforts to mobilize financing towards green and inclusive business development across the Budongo – Bugoma landscape for enhancement of forest conservation, community development […]
Held under the theme “Innovative Joint Solutions for the Protection of People and Nature”, the Shared Resources, Joint Solutions Implementing committee of Uganda (SICU) organized a series of short-focused webinars on the 15th& 17th of December 2020 to mark the end of the five-year programme. This followed a landscape level […]
Following a month-long training of post year 10 TGB farmers from the pioneer project districts i.e., Rubirizi and Mitooma (Queen Elizabeth landscape) in green business planning and development, the TGB project in December of 2020 incentivized four farmer groups with seed capital worth USD 5300 (UGX 20,000,000) each to invest […]
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