Category: MoMo4C

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). […]

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.

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.

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.