The Inclusive Green Economy in Practice Program has launched a new important event: The annual, national IGE Forums, which is the main event for disseminating knowledge from the program. The first IGE…
The Environment for Development (EfD) Uganda celebrated the graduation of its third cohort from the Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) Capacity Building Program on August 7, 2024. The event, held at the…
Deforestation isn’t just an environmental and biodiversity issue. It’s recognized that it also harms human health. However, its effect on infant health has hardly been investigated. A recent study in…
Benson Mlambo Mwakina is the Director of Renewable Energy at the Ministry of Energy & Petroleum in Kenya. He also manages cross-cutting energy assignments in the country and the region and…
The EfD Uganda participants in the Inclusive Green Economy Program, IGE Fellows, cohort of 2024-25, were officially enrolled in a yearlong capacity-building program at Makerere University on May 15…
Researchers from EfD Uganda presented findings to the Ugandan parliament on May 3rd, shedding light on the country's heavy reliance on biomass and proposing policy adjustments towards cleaner energy…
Twenty civil servants from five East African countries met with 16 EfD researchers over four intense days to share knowledge and experience of policies to increase the use of clean cooking…
A new article published in the Environmental and Resources Economics journal estimates the marginal effects of increasing forest cover on dengue prevalence in Costa Rica. The study shows that an…
Environmental economists and graduate students from Makerere University held a meeting with government officials to identify research and data gaps to address the persistent environmental and natural…
A team from EfD Uganda visited the Ministry of Water and Environment on February 27th, 2024 to share what they had learned on a study tour to Nepal in the fall of 2023. Nepal has been a world leader…