Introduction:

Background

Being one of the founding members of the East Africa Community, EAC in acronym, in the nineties, Uganda with the capital city Kampala is a landlocked East-African country bordering Rwanda and Tanzania to the south, DRC to the east, South Sudan to the north, and Kenya to the East. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania. The country lies in the African Great Lakes region within the Nile basin and has a varied but generally moderate equatorial climate. As of 2023, it has a population of around 49.6 million, of which 8.5 million live in Kampala the capital and largest city in the country.

The fast-growing national population with an average density of around 165/km² shows the necessity for a wise and sustainable natural resources management throughout the country so Ugandans can continuously benefit of so vital ecosystem services despite the constantly increasing and detrimental impacts of current global climate change.

The current proposal is hence aimed at contributing to the fight against those negative impacts which are already affecting the livelihoods of rural people in Uganda, because of accelerated occurrence of extreme climatological events in the form of droughts and floods bearing with them very harmful consequences and correlations on agriculture and pastoralism, the very basis of rural population survival.

The initiative will base its action on 2 population groups whose daily interactions with the natural environment on the countryside are critical, namely women and youth. Activities for their awareness raising on nuisances of global warming and subsequent involvement in sustainable development actions of this project are deemed to have a positive and long-lasting impact on the well being of their immediate natural environment and hence a good way to fight negative changes happening to their environment and deriving from actual climate change.

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