Several farmers in EACOP affected areas in Kyankwanzi district are reporting huge agricultural losses and distorted livelihoods due to compensation delays. Abas Mukanguzi 70 years old one of the affected farmers in Kamukanga village Byerima Sub County in Kyankwanzi District says they were told not to plant long term crops […]
Women with disabilities organized under Hoima Blind Women Association (HOBWA) are participating in efforts to mitigate climate change and its effects. Joy Rufunda, the HOBWA Executive Director, says their aim is see 5,000 trees planted by women at their homes and on their land away from home within one year. […]
In rural Kapeke Sub County in Kiboga district, Kapeke Women Beekeepers Group has discovered beekeeping as a sweet path to economic independence. The group is fostering their lives, fostering resilience and self-sufficiency while protecting the environment. Sarah Kamyuka, the group chairperson says beekeeping was initially scary for women but continuous […]
For years, fishing provided for Constance Nyamisana’s family, but restrictive regulations have crippled her livelihood. Nyamisana, now in her 80’s, has lived in Kaiso fishing village on Lake Albert’s shores. She says her husband; a fisherman would wake before dawn to set out onto the lake. The daily catch would […]
National Association of Professional Environmentalists (NAPE) has been applauded for building the resilience of communities and amplifying the voices of marginalized women to collectively resist the negative impacts of oil and gas extractives in the Albertine women. During the meeting of women organized under Grassroots Women Movement, which is coordinated […]
The rapid growth of extractive industry in Uganda’s Albertine graben is at the same time rapidly affecting the ecosystems. The activities of oil companies have displaced the fertile farmlands and green vegetation making agriculture increasingly unviable to the host communities. In Hoima’s Kabaale Sub County where oil refinery is set […]
Despite threats and intimidation from oil companies, Rev. Fred Musiimenta successfully won the battle of fair compensation for his land acquired for East African Crude Oil pipeline (EACOP) after 6 years of protesting. Rev. Musiimenta, a project affected person from Butimba village in Kikuube district says he received his long-awaited […]
Some of the residents carrying placards protesting recently Photo credit URN
By Precious Naturinda “I ignorantly signed the documents consenting to free takeover of my land,” narrates a 50 year old Beatrice Nyamahunge from Buliisa district. “When oil officials came in 2021, they told me to sign on the forms as a resident adjacent to the feeder oil pipeline route. Later, […]
The National Association of professional Environmentalists (NAPE) is calling on government to adopt the ecofeminist approach to advance successful climate actions. On March, 28 2024, NAPE and partners working on Gender and Climate Change coalition under French Embassy supported PISCCA project ‘For an Intergenerational and Creative Feminist Movement in Uganda’ […]