ECRC hosted a policy day workshop
The Environment and Climate Research Center (ECRC) at the Policy Studies Institute (PSI) hosted a half-day policy day workshop on July 12, 2022. The policy workshop aimed to share research findings on…
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Uganda’s IGE Fellows discussed national policies on fossil fuel, plastic pollution, and forest loss
Uganda’s participants in the Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) program, so-called IGE fellows, call for national policy instruments that have clear objectives and implementation plans. They also emphasize…
“Building long-term relationships with policymakers is the biggest challenge”
Twenty researchers from the Global South who obtained their doctor’s degree five years ago or less are participating in the EfD’s Early Career Fellowship program. The purpose of the program is to…
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Agriculture, Air Quality, Biodiversity, Carbon Pricing, Climate Change, Conservation, Covid-19, Energy, Experiments, Fisheries, Forestry, Gender, Health, Land, Policy Design, Urban, Waste, Water |
Chile, Colombia, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam
Ethiopia held a national consultative workshop prior to Stockholm +50 conference
Ethiopia held a national consultative workshop on April 11-12, 2022 to prepare for the upcoming United Nations Stockholm+50 conference. The workshop aimed to showcase Ethiopia’s stride, in the past 50…
EfD Uganda unveils its advisory board
The EfD center at Makerere University (EfD-Mak Center) has unveiled its advisory board. The board is chaired by Associate Professor Umar Kakumba, the Deputy Vice-chancellor, in charge of Academic…
A new cohort of participants in the IGE program was introduced in Uganda
EfD Uganda organized a training-of-trainers workshop as the final activity for the pioneer group av participants in the Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) program, the so-called IGE Fellows of 2021. This…
EfD-Mak centre impact activities 2021
The year 2020/2021 was rocked by mainly two major challenges that disrupted the center activities. The declaration of the Corona Virus Diseases (COVID 19) a global pandemic and the measures to curb…
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Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Covid-19, Energy, Forestry, Gender, Health, Waste, Water |
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EfD-Mak Centre holds strategic planning retreat to ensure proper environmental management in Uganda
On March 15th-18th 2022 the EfD-Mak center held a strategic planning meeting to write the strategic plan for the next five years to ensure that there is proper environmental management in Uganda…
EfD South Africa addresses the knowledge gap in ecosystem service valuation
Ecosystems are vital to human wellbeing yet the value of the services they provide is often ill-understood in the context of national accounts and policy analysis. EfD researcher, Jane Turpie…
Academia and local government officials in the West Nile region discussed forestry and biodiversity conservation
Over 60 participants from academia, local government officials, the private sector, and civil society organizations met on 2nd December 2021 at Muni University to discuss the status of forests and…