Current
projects
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Batwa Livelihoods Project (BLP)
Its goal is:
Landless and near landless Batwa
men and women in southwest Uganda
achieve sustainable livelihoods
through diversified economic options
and increased access to productive
assets.
The project is funded by CARE International
in Uganda.
It started in January 2009. |
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project will:- |
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Purchase
land for a number of Batwa households |
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Construct housing units and resettle
Batwa households |
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Support agricultural and animal husbandry
and related economic activities of the
Batwa. |
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Sustainable Water Management for People and Nature
around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. |
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This
four year project is funded by D. Swarovski
& Co. (Swarovski) of Austria and
started in March 2009
The project is providing safe drinking
water to schools.
Its goal:
Conservation of BINP watershed through
effective community participation in
sustainable water use and management.
Its purpose is: Improved sustainable
water use and management in twenty schools
and 2000 households adjacent to BINP
in Kanungu district. |
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aims at making children aware of the
importance of sustainable management
of water resources for the benefits
of their own livelihoods and health
as well as of the surrounding ecosystems
(including the BINP home of half of
the world’s mountain gorilla population)
on which they depend and which is their
primary source of water. |
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has three objectives namely: |
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Raise
awareness of 10,000 pupils/ students
in sustainable water use in twenty schools
adjacent to BINP in Kanungu district
by 2012 |
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Supply
clean safe potable water to twenty schools
and 2000 neighbourhood households by
2012 |
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Improve
water sanitation facilities at Buhoma
community Hospital and at the twenty
pilot schools. |
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Trans-boundary Conservation Programme Agro-forestry. |
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It
is funded by the DGIS through the
Greater Virunga Transboundary Executive
Secretariat (GV-TES) Kigali and
BMCT.
Its
goal is to:
Contribute to the conservation of
the biodiversity of BINP & MGNP
in Uganda and hence the Greater
Virunga Landscape by contributing
towards increased livelihoods security
through promotion of tree planting
as an enterprise and provision of
alternative sources of energy for
communities around Bwindi Mgahinga
Conservation Area.
Project outputs:
• Piloted use of biogas (from
human waste) at three Boarding ...secondary
schools (not yet started)
• Increased number of trees
grown in the region by: |
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Developing
ten tree nurseries each producing
a minimum of 10,000 tree seedlings
per season |
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Ten
households practicing agroforestry |
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Ten
schools planting a woodlot with
a minimum 1000 trees. |
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