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 […]
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 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 was part of the ever-growing group of organizations that supported the 5th edition of the Uganda Wildlife Marathon that took place on 23rd February at the Uganda Museum. Hundreds of participants from across different institutions turned up for this year’s marathon, aimed at raising funds to educate children of fallen […]
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