The workshop, organized by ECOTRUST, brought together partner organizations to gain insights into a 5-year community carbon project for RESTORE Africa. Program Managers from RESAF consortium partners joined to understand the design of the Global Evergreening Alliance (GEA) carbon component and align their conservation business models. Participating organizations included CRS, ULN, Caritas, CARE, ICRAF & World Vision
In the pursuit of sustainable solutions to mitigate climate change, climate-smart fish farming has emerged as a transformative technology. Masindi District witnessed the power of this approach through the endeavors of the Tengele Fish Farmers Association (TEFFA), an initiative nurtured under the wings of the Tengele Communal Land Association (CLA). […]
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.
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 […]
Following the formation of Communal Land Associations (CLA) to support the management of eleven (11) community forests in the Northern Albertine Rift, ECOTRUST has now embarked on a process of developing an incentive plan to enable the implementation of improved forest management plans. Although outside the protected area system, these […]
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