ECOTRUST is implementing the UNDP funded Restoration of Wetlands and Associated Catchments (ADA) Project in Eastern Uganda in partnership with BRAC, UNDP and the Ministry of Water & Environment (MWE), that seeks to restore wetlands and associated catchments in the Kyoga Water Management Zone in general, and the Mpologoma Catchment […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 took part in the COP 15 NGO Forum, one of the eight parallel events of the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), an important event of the “Sharm El-Sheikh to Kunming Action Agenda for Nature and People”. The forum seeks to bring […]
ECOTRUST participated in The IUCN World Conservation Congress (IUCN WCC) in Marseille- France from the 3rd – 11th of September 2021. The IUCN World Conservation Congress, held once every four years, is where the world comes together to set priorities and drive conservation and sustainable development action. The congress offers […]
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 […]
ECOTRUST on behalf of a group of conservation organizations active in the Northern Albertine Rift has made a counter offer to the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom to enter into a conservation agreement that is far more superior to the conversion of forests into sugarcane. This agreement will provide opportunities to conserve […]
ECOTRUST is working in a Winrock international led process to support the government of Uganda to design Emission Reduction (ER) Programs and prepare associated ER-Program documents (ER-PIN and ERPD) under the REDD+ initiative. REDD+ was established as a mechanism to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by providing financial incentives to developing countries […]
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