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01 October 2021 | By Bridget Ampurira 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...

30 September 2021 | By Greenwatch 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, https...

17 June 2021 | By Bridget Ampurira 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...

10 June 2021 | By Daphne N. Kamuntu 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...

11 May 2021 | By Greenwatch 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...

27 April 2021 | By Greenwatch 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...