On May 20 th, Ugandan judges gathered at Mbale Resort Hotel in Mbale District, Eastern Uganda for the sixth annual judicial training program on climate justice, organized by Greenwatch, an environmental rights non-governmental organization. Since...
Apparent like the scarcity of green cover in this vast city, the plastic disposal and management crisis in Kampala remains a puzzle yet to be solved. Users have continuously found convenience in dumping plastic on streets and elsewhere, just like...
Climaxed with conservation-tourism, Greenwatch launched and ran a week-long digital campaign commemorating the world wildlife day that is globally celebrated every 3rd day of March. The 2024 theme “ Exploring Digital Innovation in Wildlife...
Capacity building through trainings is one of the core mechanisms through which Greenwatch realises its vision. Since 2019, Greenwatch has organised 4 judicial trainings with the aim of strengthening effective adjudication of environment issues. We...
What the recent ban on commercial charcoal, timber trade means for the environment and residents in Gulu Earlier last week, the Daily Monitor newspaper published a story titled “ Government bans commercial charcoal, timber trade in Gulu”. Accordingly...
A crisis Greenhouse gas emissions will rise by 70% by the year 2050 if no climate action is taken now, elevating the global atmospheric temperature to up to 4 oC - 6 oC by 2100 (OECD, 2012) What to be done? In order to stabilize GHG(Green House Gas)...
The 4 th Judicial Training was held on the 13 th and 14 th of April 2022, organised by Greenwatch in conjunction with the Judicial Training Institute (JTI) at Mestil Hotel & Residences, Kampala. The theme of the training workshop was: " Strengthening...
Louise Slaughter an American politician elected to 16 terms as a United States Representative from New York once said, “Let’s clean up our environment, let’s clean up our bodies but most importantly, let’s not permit our babies of the future to be...
When I was in High School, I used to spend most of my vacations volunteering (this seemed like a much more appropriate word, but actually, my dad did not like the idea of us being redundant at home during our vacations, so he took us to work) with an...
Earlier this week I had the opportunity of attending the Annual General Meeting for the Uganda Forestry Working Group (UFWG) and among the emerging issues that were discussed at the meeting was the recent decision by cabinet on 27th July, 2021 to...
Greenwatch is among the organizations that is a part of the Nile Coalition Initiative (NCI). Other organizations that are part of this coalition include ( https://www.redrocksinitiative.org, https://www.agrabilityafrica.org/junior-ranger-uganda...
On the 20th of May 2021, Tanzania and East African Crude Oil Pipeline Company (EACOP) signed the Host Government Agreement (HGA) for Tanzania. This was the final agreement for the pipeline project that will enable exploitation of crude oil in Uganda...
In the recent past, the world has received its fair share of climate change disasters ranging from effects such as global warming, destructive hailstorms, catastrophic landslides to deadly fires and swarms of locusts. Ecosystems world-wide have been...
On the 27th of April 2021, the Ugandan parliament in an unprecedented move, unanimously passed the National Climate Change Bill to tackle the climate change crisis in Uganda. The Bill intends to give force of law to the United Nations Framework...
The right of access to information is a fundamental right recognized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights since 1946. An informed population can effectively build stable governments and political institutions. This is through holding leaders...
On the 18 th and 19 th March 2021, Greenwatch in conjunction with the Judicial Training Institute (JTI) organised the 3rd Judicial Training on Climate Justice in Uganda held at Mestil Hotel & Residences, Kampala. The theme of the training workshop...
On the 18th and 19th March 2021, Greenwatch in conjunction with the Judicial Training Institute (JTI) organised the 3rd Judicial Training on Climate Justice in Uganda held at Mestil Hotel & Residences, Kampala. The theme of the training workshop was...
Greenwatch’s team together with a group of children including some of the plaintiffs in the case of Nissi Mbabazi Vs Attorney General and NEMA (Civil suit no: 283 of 2021) visited Mabira forest in Central Uganda, the third largest forest in Uganda...
Greenwatch conducted two (2) dialogue trainings with the communities of Rakai and Kyotera districts. The objective of the community trainings and dialogue was to build their capacity in monitoring petroleum activities of the EACOP so as to promote...
Greenwatch in conjunction with the Judicial Training Institute (JTI) organised the 2nd annual Judicial Training on Climate Justice in Uganda on 10th and 11th Sepetember 2020. The theme for this year was: "Climate Justice; Ensuring a More Fair and...
In 2013, people (plaintiffs) from Buhungiro-Tooro claiming to be lawful customary owners of the suit land, sued National Forestry Authority (NFA) for unlawfully evicting them. They claimed that the central forest reserve does not extend to the land...
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