UGANDA CHILD AND AID DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (UGACAD)

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Uganda

Name: UGANDA CHILD AND AID DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (UGACAD)
Country: Uganda
Year of establishment: 2018
Type of organization: Awareness building and education, Gender equality, Social and environmental justice, Sustainable use of natural resources

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UGANDA CHILD AND AID DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (UGACAD)

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Uganda

Name: UGANDA CHILD AND AID DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (UGACAD)
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Year of establishment:
Type of organization: Awareness building and education, Gender equality, Social and environmental justice, Sustainable use of natural resources

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Description

UGANDA CHILD AND AID DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (UGACAD), is a community based organisation, founded by Human rights defenders and activists from the marginalized group of people, majority of which are young women and adolescent girls and boys. UGACAD is involved into the following programs: - Human rights advocacy, protection and awareness. - Access to Heath - Access to Justice - Environmental protection rights. UGACAD on going climate change project: CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ON ADOLESCENT GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN. As climate change is not gender neutral, rather it amplifies already existing gender inequalities with the most marginalised communities experiencing the greasy impacts; for example: - Girls house hold responsibilities and distance to school in increasingly harsh conditions challenges their access to learning. The lack of water and poor sanitation services may affect girls, adolescent girls and young women's reproductive health and rights with a negative impact on their Psychosocial and well being. - In some contexts, risk associated with climate change exacerbate possiblity of gender - based violence, including child marriage which is reported as a negative coping mechanism due to climate change induced economic insecurity. - Climate change may also increase food insecurity there by contributing to high aneamia rates for adolescent girls and young women. Our interventions: - To prepare girls and young women to improve their capacities and to ensure that their voices are heard. - Ensure that global stocktake (GST) address the unique and heightened vulnerabilities of girls, adolescent girls and young women to climate change impacts. - Accelerate the global goal of adaptation and mitigation of climate change by promoting and scale up female - led and gender responsive adaptating strategies. Our project integrates Climate with Health. The organization was founded by sexual minority groups of p6 and female sex workers, who are marginalized, as they face discrimination, stigmatisation and other violations by state and non state actors.

Nature Element: Agricultural, Forests
Type of Action: Awareness building and education, Gender equality, Social and environmental justice, Sustainable use of natural resources
Sustainable Development Element: Food security (SDG 2) , Health (SDG 3) , Gender equality (SDG 5) , Sustainable communities and disaster risk reduction (SDG 11) 

Nature Element: Agricultural, Forests
Type of Action: Awareness building and education, Gender equality, Social and environmental justice, Sustainable use of natural resources
Sustainable Development Element: Food security (SDG 2) , Health (SDG 3) , Gender equality (SDG 5) , Sustainable communities and disaster risk reduction (SDG 11) 

Environmental Impacts

Environmental impacts as a result of ecosystem protection, restoration and / or sustainable management. Most adverse environmental impacts have a direct link to public health and quality of Life issues and also as human population grows natural resources are being depleted. So the following are the human activities: a) Deforestation and habitat destruction. Biodiversity loss is among the most pressing issues as many species lose their natural habitats, pushing them closer to extinction and also forests plays crucial role in carbon sequestration. 500,000+ estimated acres of forests are cut annually throughout Uganda. 62.5% of Uganda's forest land has been logged in the last 3 decades and it is estimated that by 2050, there will be no forests out side the protected areas remaining. b) Fossil fuel consumption and green house has emissions using fossils fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas drives much of our energy production. In Uganda as at 2019, the country's energy mix was dominated by biomass energy (88%) consumed mainly through firewood and charcoal, electricity (2%) and oil or fossil fuels at 10% and energy consumption has been on rise over the years. c) Agricultural practices and soil degradation: In Uganda 70% of the population is involved into agriculture. Women are active farmers, who needs to be transformed into " climate friendly agriculture" that's ' climate smart agriculture, soil erosion, a results in the loss of fertile top soil and excessive use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides leads to water pollution and contamination. d) waste generation and management. As waste that ends up in land fills generates Green House Gasses, contributing to climate change and further impacting biodiversity and human health. e) Climate change and global impact: Effects of climate change which is mainly intense heat waves due to GHGE and heavy rains. The average temperature has increased by 1.3°C and maximum temperatures have increased by 0.6 - 0.9°C.

Sustainable Development Impacts

This sustainable development impact said the breadth of ways in which biodiversity in DongNaTard can support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG1, SDG2,SDG5, SDG13, SDG15, SDG16, SDG17) as a basis for exploring scientific evidence of the benefits delivered by biodiversity.. It focuses on gender-responsive action that provide examples of biodiversity conservation directly deliver benefits that may contribute to the achievement of individual SDGs. It also considers the biodiversity’s direct contributions to fulfilling some SDGs may indirectly support the achievement of other SDGs to which biodiversity does not contribute directly. How the attributes for example, diversity, abundance or composition of biological diversity components influence the benefits delivered to indiginous people,. While acknowledging potential negative impacts and trade-offs between different benefits, that biodiversity may contribute to positive impact of all SDGs above-mentioned.

RESILIENCE, ADAPTABILITY, AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

In order to address ecological and social resilience and adaptation, the project model was linked with ecosystem structures , ecosystem services, and human well-being . By applying the ecosystem services framework as the adaptive management of CoDA which investigate whether villagers have been resilient and able to recover from social and environmental changes . The selected indicators of project represent the different system stages within this conceptual model. The species indicator represents one of the internal and external pressures . The diversity of plants and wild life were used to indicate ecosystem structures . The indicator multi-functionality of forests refers to the variety of ecosystem services provided to humans by agroforestry in the woodlots, an important landscape component in DongNaTard. Further indicators of impacts in the system are food self-sufficiency, and profitability, defined as the monetary benefits that result from the ecosystem services.

REDUCED INEQUALITIES

Before in Phonsim, the inequality and social inclusion such as youth, elders, indigenous people and other handicaped persons emerged as a central issue due to the increasing inhabitants whose inequalities in income and wealth cause economic instability, social problems, and create a barrier to the adoption of pro-environment strategies and behaviour. Social and economic inequalities undermine social participation, contribute to environmental problems and prevent nations, communities and individuals from flourishing. This applies to both the poor and, perhaps surprisingly, also to the rich in phonsim community. Levels of social cohesion, including trust and social capital, are lower in more unequal societies. Indicators of women’s status and equality also tend to be worse. Social mobility is restricted by inequality. Till now CoDA promotes the equality of opportunity increased by greater equality of outcomes implemented by this project. More equal participants tend to have higher rates of innovation, probably resulted in active social mobility. Poverty reduction is compromised by income inequality. The CoDA reduces inequality and bolstering longer-term economic growth may be “joining biodiversity conservation ”. More equal marginalized groups accept environmental agreements highly. The social inclusion enhances the cooperation between city, province and the development of national environmental agreements on biodiversity is succesful step by step

GENDER EQUALITY

In communal development, gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable country. There has been progress over the last year, but the phonsim community is not on track to achieve gender equality continuously. The project means the gender equality strengthened and enhanced in a fair manner. For example the progress in many areas, including ecosystem are participated by wives and husbands in most of families notably gender-responsive biodiversity protection, scales up step by step. Through women’s leadership, ownership and partnership in responding to biodiversity losses, they still help men in securing the decision-making positions they deserve. CoDA conducts awareness raising on biodiversity conservation through educating the importance and significance of environment, forest and biological diversity for Phonsim women. After innovative activities women choose only branches and twigs used as firewood, bamboo including its shoots only harvested for household consumption but for commercial purpose not permitted. And they can warn their husbands to conserve queen’s crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia speciosa) and wild orchids not harvested for sale. Their husbands are warned not for starting fires for wildlife,shooting wildlife and fishing methods of electrocution, or poison are prohibited especially in conservation zones as their wives understood, approved and joined .

Scalability

Uganda has increased its ambition to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions from 22% - 24.7% in the new climate change plan also known as the nationally determined contribution (NDC). Uganda is one of the countries at greatest risk from climate change and one of the least prepared. Uganda 's agricultural sector is experiencing climate change effects manifested through; frequent and severe dry spells, floods, high temperature and increased incidence of pest and diseases.

Replicability

Climate change adaptation is at a very early stages of development in many African countries including Uganda. Our initiative is perhaps the first to focus on Lake Victoria, Lake Kyoha regions and River Nile basins. This initiative mechanism for adaptation to climate change. These mechanisms maybe of interest to other countries facing similar challenges. According ly , this initiative is explicitly designed to facilitate the replication of successes and lesson learnt.

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