ECOTRUST with funding from the World Land Trust (WLT) is supporting the establishment of a Corridor Restoration Fund (CRF) to drive the restoration of forest connectivity corridors between the two forest reserve forests of Bugoma and Budongo in the Murchison Landscape of Western Uganda (the Bugoma-Budongo Corridor). We have made […]
Every year ECOTRUST holds an Annual Stakeholders’ event as a feedback and accountability mechanism to key partners and stakeholders in the organization’s interventions and aspirations. This year’s event was special because it marked the end of the 2017-2021 ECOTRUST strategic plan and the beginning of a new strategic period 2022-2026. The event was held under the theme “LIVING IN HARMONY WITH NATURE: Building Climate Resilient Communities and Sustainable Landscapes” which is the theme of the new ECOTRUST strategic plan. It recognizes the overall vision post-2020 – Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) framework for the next decade and the new vision that will inspire ECOTRUST operations over the medium term.
As we begin a new strategic planning period (2022 – 2026), we would like to say thank you. Because of your support, ECOTRUST has grown tremendously over the last five years (2017 – 2021) into a leading Ugandan NGO in designing and implementing market-based conservation incentives that promote landscape restoration […]
Every year ECOTRUST holds an Annual Stakeholders’ event as a feedback and accountability mechanism to key partners and stakeholders in the organization’s interventions and aspirations. This year’s event was special because it marked the end of the 2017-2021 ECOTRUST strategic plan and the beginning of a new strategic period 2022-2026. […]
This year’s ECOTRUST Annual Stakeholders Event, to be held under the theme “LIVING IN HARMONY WITH NATURE: Building Climate Resilient Communities and Sustainable Landscapes” – will give prominence to ECOTRUST’s post 2020 CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity) vision and the launch of the organization’s new five-year strategic vision. During this […]
Residents and civil society groups under the Save Bugoma Forest campaign have since May 2021 been waging an uphill legal battle to protect the largest remaining block of natural tropical woodland in Uganda from destruction as part of the controversial sugarcane development project by Hoima Sugar Works. Located 250km (155 […]
The Consortium of African Funds for the Environment (CAFÉ) is a membership-based network of Environmental Funds (EFs) or Conservation Trust Funds (CTFs) in Africa that has been operating since 2011. Annually, CAFÉ members meet for their general assembly. This year, BIOFUND – The Foundation for Conservation of Biodiversity hosted the […]
ECOTRUST delivered a one-hour virtual talk to the management and staff of Standard Chartered Bank Uganda (SCB (U)) on 8th October 2021 on the critical importance of subscribing to the Net Zero Agenda, as part of the Banks internal awareness campaign on achieving Net Zero Emissions by 2040. By sharing […]
The Farmers Voice Radio (FVR) for Mount Elgon project, coordinated by ECOTRUST and supported by the Lorna Young Foundation (LYF)) with funding from Guernsey Overseas Aid and Development Commission (GOADC) and co-finance from Rainforest Alliance came to an end in September 2021. The 12-month (August 2020 – September 2021) project […]
ECOTRUST hosted a team of consultants from the EU (European Union) at her forestry project sites in Mitooma and Rubirizi districts – Queen Elizabeth Landscape – Uganda on the 3rd of October 2021. The visit was part an EU forestry mission in Uganda to undertake a forest sector and stakeholder […]
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