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JESE areas of operation
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COMMUNITY FOREST MONITORING
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Some of Jese's Current Projects/programs
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 (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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Scaling up Farmer Field Business School (SUFFBS) project aims at increasing food, nutrition security, and increased incomes of vulnerable women and girls in Uganda, by influencing government structures and non-state actors using the Farmer Field Business School (FFBS) model to engage targeted communities in more sustainable ways of farming as a business.
Below are our areas of focus
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 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
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
The organisation does sensitize and equip the community with knowledge and skills on a variety of things...read more
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"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
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
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Catchment Based Water Resources Management (CBWRM) at national level has led to the development of many large scale catchment plans. This progress is vital, but at the same time, Protection and Con ...
The youth who were trained in tailoring by JESE under the Skill Up! Project have received sewing machines to help them start their own businesses. The distribution started on Friday, December ...
In 2016, the Ministry of Water and Environment issued a report which showed that Uganda’s forest cover was 4.9 million hectares in 1990. However, this had reduced to 1.8 million hectares in 2 ...
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 Mpanga gorge is located right at the north-eastern tip of Queen Elizabeth National park, allowing the river Mpanga to empty into Lake George.
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
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