Compiled by Joseph Buwule & Jane Anyango On 17th September, 2024 a team of EfD-Mak, and Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) fellows led by Uganda’s Policy Engagement Specialist Dr. Peter Babyenda visited Uganda’s Pioneer Motor Vehicle Company engaged in the production of Electric and solar powered vehicles –the Kiira Motors Corporation (KMC). The Kiira Motors Corporation […]
The NutriFish Project under the Department of Zoology, Entomology and Fisheries Sciences, College of Natural Sciences (CoNAS), Makerere University was announced winner of the Fisheries Innovations Award 2023 at the Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture Awards (SFA) ceremony held on 30th June 2023 at Fairway Hotel, Kampala. Organized by the Sustainable Fisheries Initiative (SFI), the Sustainable Fisheries […]
The African Plant Nutrition Institute (APNI), Morocco in partnership with Makerere University College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES), Ankole Coffee Producers Co-operative Union Limited – ACPCU Ltd, NARO Uganda, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) in Morocco, Producers Direct, and the Environmental Conservation Trust of Uganda (ECOTRUST) plan to implement a project titled – “Green […]
The College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) through the School of Forestry, Environmental and Geographical Sciences (SFEGS) on 6th December launched the first CAES Botanical Gardens at Makerere University Agricultural Research Institute Kabanyolo (MUARIK). The Botanical Gardens will cover 30 acres of MUARIK land. This is one of the College initiatives geared towards the protection, […]
Over 80 participants from the environment and natural resources sector including, senior civil servants, the academia, civil society organisation, members of the public and students converged at Makerere University to discuss and participate in a survey on opinions about policy instruments such as taxes, subsidies and bans. This stakeholder workshop held on 15th July 2022 […]
The three-day Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) cross-country National Policy Review and Training Workshop was on 23rd November 2021 opened at the Speke Resort Hotel Munyonyo in Uganda attracting over forty members of academia and policy makers from the Swedish Environment for Development (EfD) Global hub and the East African countries including Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania […]