Projects and Programs
Some of Jese's Current Projects/programs
Green Colleges Initiative
Green college initiative (GCI) is a three-year project implemented by JESE, SATNET and KIIMA FOODS in the Rwenzori region with support from Welthungerhilfe and BMZ. The project seeks to train young people in Green Trades at Green Colleges involving relevant actors from the education and private sector.
Strengthening Resilience through enhanced Local Disaster Risk Management Capacities
Strengthening Resilience through enhanced Local Disaster Risk Management Capacities (DRR) is a two and half year project implemented by Oxfam, JESE AND CSBAG in Isingiro and Kyegeggwa with support from European Union Trust Fund.
Green Entrepreneurship/FoW
Growing inclusive green entrepreneurship in the Kibale, Itwara, and Matiri Forest landscape, western Uganda is a project that aims at revitalising rural communities and increase their resilience to climate and other external shocks through a nature –based model for green job creation, innovation and entrepreneurship
Skill Up
The project “Skill Up!” is funded by the BMZ and aims at contributing to a better socio-economic status of vulnerable youth ages 18-30 by providing them with technical, business and life skills in different trades.
Sustainable Family Farm Development II
JESE with support from BD to implement a five-year program dubbed Sustainable Family Farm Development 2. The program is inspired by Agro ecology. It envisages building resilient and sustainable family farms.
Mpanga Super Farmers Program II
The program being implemented in the Rwenzori region in the areas of Kabambiro in Kamwenge district and Kicwamba Sub county in Kabarole district and Fort portal city.
An integrated Community Response to Conserve, Restore and Protect the Ecosystem in Mpanga catchment gorge, Kitagwenda district.
This project is developed in line with the objective to contribute significantly to the sustainable preservation of the catchment area, where the Mpanga hydropower plant is located in Western Uganda, while improving the surrounding communities’ livelihood.
Innovative & gender-sensitive Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for Resilience & Green jobs
This project is aimed at creating innovative and gender sensitive nature based solutions (NbS) to build resilience on climate change and promote green job enterprises, as well as accelerating the restoration of degraded hot spots & buffer area for improved livelihood and sustainable management of RMNP & Semliki catchment by 2023.
Engaging Farmers in the restoration of the Kibaale - Itwara - Matiri elephant corridor (SPA)
This project targets farmers adjacent to the Kibaale-Itwara - Matiri elephant corridor in Kyenjojo district. The project seeks to build the capacity of farmers adjacent to Itwara and Matiri central forest reserve (CFR) to adopt restoration practices for the degraded elephant corridor using agroforestry approaches.
Areas of Intervention
Below are our areas of focus
Natural Resource Management
Forest destruction is probably the most widely recognized form of ecosystem degradation, since it so rapidly and dramatically transforms the structure of the habitat. In Uganda today, about 9% of the land surface area is covered by forest that reduced from 11% in 2015/16. The loss and degradation of wetlands and forests is driven by several factors:...read more
Agriculture & Enterprise Development
AGRICULTURE AND LIVELIHOODS
For several decades, agriculture has remained the backbone to Uganda’s economy. By the close of FY2019/20, 68% of the households were engaged in subsistence agriculture, implying that a significant proportion of the population remains excluded from the money economy (MFPED, 2020). Ironically, the country is endowed with conducive climate, fertile soils, and abundant arable land on which subsistence farming continues to take centre stage thereby exacerbating youth unemployment, low production that yields low per capita income.....read more
Water & Sanitation
SCHOOL Water Sanitation and Hygiene
In 2010, the government of Uganda launched a 5 years National Development Plan (NDP) where primary education was a central component of the strategies to eliminate poverty by 2015. To emphasize the role of primary education in poverty eradication, the government identified UPE as one of the key sectors to...read more
Communication & Knowledge Mgt
The organisation does sensitize and equip the community with knowledge and skills on a variety of things...read more
Team and Board members
Meet with All Our team and board members
Patrick Joseph Baguma
Organizational Team Leader
Grace Waako Katuramu
Board Chairperson
Dr. Mugume Sam Koojo,
Board Member
Tuhairwe Gertrude
Board Member
Miss Kabakama Jane
Treasurer
Katuramu Albert
Board Member
Mr Magezi Charles
Member
Mubiru Vincent
Board Member
Ellen K. Bajenja
Board Member
Testimonial
Our Happy beneficiaries of the Jese programs Tell their stories
Shanitah J
Student (Student)
"My name is Masiko John bosco. I have been practicing farming along the river banks for the last 25 years, which was against the law. I have gained knowledge and skills through sensitization sessions by JESE team
Masiko John
farmer (From Kabeza Village, Kamwenge district)
Angumye Rebecca loves her job as a project officer at JESE for the WASHFIRST Project under the WASH department. This is because she gears... Read more
Angumye Rebecca
Project officer (JESE)
Latest News
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Kyenjojo leaders appreciate JESE, partners for SkillUp Project
Leaders in Kyenjojo district have appreciated the Joint Effort to Save the Environment (JESE) and the partners for the SkillUp project, which has equipped the youth with technical skills in hairdre ...
The many benefits of tree nurseries
The Mpanga gorge is located right at the north-eastern tip of Queen Elizabeth National park, allowing the river Mpanga to empty into Lake George.
JESE, partners distribute relief items in Nakivale refugee settlement
BY CHRISTOPHER TUSIIME
It was joy on Monday, November 7 as Joint Effort to Save the Environment (JESE) in partnership with
BY CHRISTOPHER TUSIIME To most schools in Uganda, finding a reliable, environment-friendly and cost-effective techno ...
Energy saving technology by JESE cuts expenditure of schools by 60 percent
Vanilla farmers trained on how to be prepared for bad weather changes by JESE Staff.
Ms. joy she is a Resident of Kirindameni village Kyerenga parish Butunduzi Town Council, she is a member of Kyerenga Wetland Conservation Association
“We started income generating f ...
COMMUNITY BASED MONITORING
Story by the 52 years Old Arnest Businge Chairperson of Kyarusozi Sub-county Local Government, Kyenjojo District. , ,
It is on record that as a Chairperson I have been concerned ...
The provision of safe and adquet water is a fundamental human right
Talks on water as a human right and the government’s responsibility to provide it took centre-stage at a High Level Event consisting of the Uganda’s Ministry of Water and Environment, l ...
Our Partners
We work and partner with various NGOs and Companies.
I have grown up with limited knowledge of menstruation period because my mother and elder sisters shy away from discussing the issues with me. But through JESE's Menstrual Hygiene Program, Iam now knowledgeable about menstruation periods