Project Title: Strengthening Resilience through Enhanced Local Disaster Risk Management Capacities
Overall Project Objective
To reduce the potential negative environmental and socio-economic impact on local systems of the current and future displacements in southwest Uganda
Specific Objective
To strengthen local preparedness and resilience of refugees and host communities through improved natural resources management, disaster risk mitigation, and early warning systems in the two refugee hosting districts of Kyegegwa and Isingiro.
Approach
This project seeks to achieve its objectives by reducing forest exploitation, and encouraging restoration, and natural resource management activities. The project will also seek to improve environmental governance through advocacy, environmental education, and influencing. Building on current ongoing waste-to-value innovations projects this project seeks to further provide sustainable and environmentally friendly energy sources from human faeces to make fuel briquettes and biogas generation.
Capacity building of local actors and district staff are used to improve planning, awareness, and adjusted plans incorporating disaster risk mechanisms resulting in a sustainable program. Oxfam works with ongoing Care-funded DRR intervention in Kyangwali, whilst strengthening its disaster preparedness for a potential response to a new refugee influx or epidemic. The project also considers the ongoing WASH intervention funded by DG ECHO in Kyegegwa and Isingiro disricts.
Partners
- Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group (CSBAG)
- Joint Efforts to Save the Environment (JESE)