EfD Uganda Graduates Third Cohort of IGE Fellows
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…
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EfD Uganda celebrates milestones and outlines plans at Annual General Meeting
The EfD-Mak Centre Uganda held its first Annual General Meeting (AGM) on July 18, 2024, at the Glory Summit Hotel in Hoima, celebrating achievements and outlining strategic objectives for the next…
EfD Uganda researchers gain insights from oil and gas community visits
A team of environmental economists from Makerere University recently visited Uganda's Albertine oil fields to assess ongoing oil and gas operations and explore potential research and collaboration…
Hoima residents demand expanded access to clean energy at EfD policy dialogue
Stakeholders from Hoima's local government, private sector, and civil society organizations have urged the government to expand access to clean energy sources like electricity and LPG to facilitate…
EfD Ghana seminar proposes pathways to maximize extractive sector benefits
Ghana's extractive industry faces challenges, limiting its potential to contribute effectively to the nation's economic growth. The EfD Ghana seminar, titled Getting More from Ghana’s Extractive…
“The others can learn from our mistakes”
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…
TRANSPATH aims at sustainable consumption, production, and relationship with nature
Approximately 25 people from the Czech Republic, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Ghana, and Costa Rica participated in the second meeting of the Transformative Pathways…
Academia and policymakers identify research and data gaps in the management of natural resources in Uganda
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…
Learnings from forestry study tour to Nepal were presented to the Ugandan government
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…
EfD Uganda established network and secretariat for inclusive green economy
EfD has run an extensive and ambitious program, the Inclusive Green Economy in Practice program, since 2020 in five East African countries. In Uganda over 20 senior public servants from government…