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 […]
ECOTRUST, working under the ACBA (African Civil Society Organisations for Biodiversity Alliance) is spearheading the Africa Biodiversity Conservation dialogues initiative, leading to the generation of the Africa Position on the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. ECOTRUST is also spearheading dialogue between ACBA and China CSOs, International NGOs, Africa Development Bank […]
ECOTRUST launched a gendered green investment campaign under the new MoMo4C (Mobilizing More for Climate) programme between the 1st – 12th of November 2020 in Masindi district (Murchison Falls landscape) with the aim of recognizing and promoting the vital role of women and youth groups in Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR). […]
MoMo4C Gendered Green Investment Campaign 2020
Kinyara Sugar Works limited, located in Masindi District, and established in 1972 is Uganda’s biggest sugar company, producing approximately 120,000 tons of sugar per annum for both domestic consumption and export. The estate which by 2008 had an estimate of 500 out-growers has since increased its area of operation, now employing […]
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