Community action/Uganda
The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Uganda.
News
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Climate storytelling often ignores young people – arts-based research can change that, theconversation.com (Feb 06, 2026) - Uganda’s first peace journalism awards redefine the media landscape, globalvoices.org (Feb 03, 2026)
- Earth’s Wetlands Are Disappearing and Global Efforts to Save Them Are Unraveling, (COP15), insideclimatenews.org (Jul 29, 2025) — Uganda has taken a lead in elevating the role local communities play in wetlands protection, introducing a widely-supported resolution on the importance of cultural values. “In Uganda, we protect wetlands because of our cultural values,” This involves documenting communities’ stories, traditional ways of life and their ecological knowledge, Asadhu Ssebyoto
- Young South Africans take up sustainable agriculture for food security, climatechangenews.com (Jun 02, 2026) — Aquaponics is seeing a revival in South Africa’s schools, boosted by government support and climate concerns
- Introducing Katcha: An African Democratic Innovation Network, demnext.substack.com (Feb 19, 2026)
- One of Africa’s Most Important Water Sources Just Got Some Very Good News, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 05, 2026) — Angola’s vast highland wetlands feed rivers that deliver freshwater to millions. They just gained global recognition that could help keep it that way.
- Climate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientists, theguardian.com (Sep 10, 2026) — Global shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans
- Why I choose to build commons, rather than being an ‘activist’, growingcommons.substack.com (Sep 06, 2026) — And why I think you should, too, Dil Green
- What Brazil’s supercentenarians can teach us about living to 120, positive.news (Sep 02, 2026)
Networks and sustainability initiatives
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[edit | edit source]Global or International events
Sep 15, 2026 (Tue) — Free Money Day, Global invitation for people to explore, in a liberating and fun way, what it might be like if our relationship to money was a little different. Sep 15, annually, freemoneyday.org- Sep 18, 2026 (Fri) — Park(ing) day, global, public, participatory project where people across the world temporarily repurpose curbside parking spaces and convert them into public parks and social spaces to advocate for safer, greener, and more equitable streets for people, myparkingday.org
- Sep 21-27, 2026 (Mon-Sun) — Global Week Of Action For Peace And Climate Justice, climatemilitarism.org
- Sep 21, 2026 (Mon) — International Day of Peace, Globally shared date, Sep 21 each year for all humanity to commit to Peace above all differences and to contribute to building a Culture of Peace, internationaldayofpeace.org
2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events
CDC video
[edit | edit source]Each week 3 different short videos from across the world.
Community climate action Scotland, Community climate action, Community action/New Zealand / ...This week's featured UK videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism
Uganda video
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Community and voluntary action
[edit | edit source]PONT - a partnership to fight poverty, community to community link between Rhondda Cynon Taf in South Wales and a district in Uganda called Mbale.
Social inclusion
[edit | edit source]Uganda has made significant progress in eradicating poverty and achieved the first millennium development goal of halving the number of people in extreme poverty. Uganda was listed as the 9th most successful country in Africa as regards poverty eradication. W
Health and wellbeing
[edit | edit source]- strongminds.org/uganda, working "across all districts, providing therapy to adult women and adolescents in and out of schools, refugees, and incarcerated populations."
Biodiversity
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Uganda has 60 protected areas, including ten national parks: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and Rwenzori Mountains National Park (both UNESCO World Heritage Sites), Kibale National Park, Kidepo Valley National Park, Lake Mburo National Park, Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, Mount Elgon National Park, Murchison Falls National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park, and Semuliki National Park.
Uganda is home to a vast number of species, including a population of mountain gorillas in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, gorillas and golden monkeys in the Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, and hippos in the Murchison Falls National Park.Jackfruit can be found throughout Uganda.The country had a 2019 Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 4.36/10, ranking it 128th globally out of 172 countries.
Open spaces
[edit | edit source]Uganda has 60 protected areas, including ten national parks. W
Near you
[edit | edit source]About Uganda
[edit | edit source]Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southern part includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania. Uganda is in the African Great Lakes region, lies within the Nile basin, and has a varied equatorial climate. As of 2024, it had a population of 45.9 million, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital and largest city, Kampala.
Uganda is named after the Buganda kingdom, which encompasses a large portion of the south, including Kampala, and whose language Luganda is widely spoken; the official language is English, while Swahili is the second official language. The region was populated by people of various ethnicities before Bantu and Nilotic groups arrived around 3,000 years ago. These new inhabitants established influential kingdoms such as the Empire of Kitara. The arrival of Arab traders in the 1830s and British explorers in the late 19th century marked the beginning of foreign influence. The British established the Protectorate of Uganda in 1894, setting the stage for future political dynamics.
Uganda archive
[edit | edit source]Video archive
- Trees for Integration, salveinternational, 2014, on youtube.com
News archive
- How Climate Impacts Mental Health in Africa, strongminds.org (Apr 10, 2024)
- Food forests grown by Nile Basin farmers restore wetlands and bring back a turtle, news.mongabay.com (Feb 28, 2024)
- Climate change: Saving Uganda's mountain gorillas, BBC News (Dec 01, 2023)
- Conservationists work to restore last remnant of a once-great Ugandan forest, news.mongabay.com (Aug 25, 2023)
- Uganda’s Communal Food ‘Epicenters’ Aim to End Hunger Forever, reasonstobecheerful.world (May 26, 2023) — Pushing past the conventional food aid model, a regenerative farming system offers a recipe for success — and self-reliance. Peter Yeung
- Mountain gorillas: The ripple effect of conservation, BBC News (Jun 20, 2022)
- A billion of the world’s most climate-vulnerable people live in informal settlements – here’s what they face, The Conversation (Mar 22, 2022)
- Gen Z on how to save the world: young climate activists speak out, The Guardian (Oct 17, 2021) — Features activists from Philippines, Australia, India, US, Uganda, Pakistan, Peru, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Kenya and Canada
- Cycologic: The power of women for the power of bicycles in Uganda, Oct 19, 2016...@publicspherewb
- Solar Sister lights entrepreneurial spirit to improve women's lives in Uganda, Alon Mwesigwa, Jul 15, 2016...The Guardian
- Uganda's Kiira Motors unveils 'Africa's first solar bus', February 1, 2016...BBC News
- Uganda Earns Big From Organic Agriculture, July 18, 2014...africaag.org
- Trees for Integration programme in Jinja, Eastern Uganda, brings communities togetherPermaculture Magazine
- 2010 SEED Award Winners: "ORIBAGS INNOVATIONS (U) LTD" is a private enterprise initiated by a research institution and local NGO to manufacture hand-made paper bags, printing paper and jewellery from agricultural wastes including wheat straw, elephant grass and other natural fibres. Oribags offers an eco-friendly alternative to polythene bags and empowers women entrepreneurs. unep.org, November 3, 2010.
- New climate change deal for Uganda, DFID, December 18, 2009
| Authors | Phil Green |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
| Cite as | Philralph (2007–2026). "Community action/Uganda". Appropedia. Retrieved September 13, 2026. |