Increasing resilience for human and environmental security
Create an environment that is safe, healthy, and ecologically sound for both people and wildlife.
We are ecofeminist and collaborative environmental justice organization that works to protect biodiversity and Indigenous Peoples’ rights. We work in the Albertine Rift region (Murchison-Semliki, Greater Virunga, and Ituri landscapes), which borders the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.
We are committed to fostering resiliency for environmental and human security, assisting marginalized Indigenous Peoples and traditional communities in the Albertine rift region to live sustainably and safeguard their cultural practices, water sources, lands, and surrounding environment.
The Environmental Defenders(ED) is an ecofeminist and collaborative environmental justice organization that protect biodiversity and defend Indigenous People’s rights. ED is dedicated to building resilience for human and environmental security, helping marginalized Indigenous Peoples and communities make a sustainable living and protect their water sources, land, and the local environment.
Based in Uganda and is active in the Albertine Rift region and the Congo Basin.ED strengthens the resilience of individuals and communities to withstand environmental shocks.
We plant trees and restore degraded land; we collect and bank native seeds; we propagate plants and restore wildlife habitat.
We protect and secure environmental human rights defenders and conservationists targeted, harmed, and endangered due to their efforts to defend the environment, protect wildlife, land rights, tenure security, and livelihoods.
We form, register, support, and equip women’s groups. Increasing agricultural productivity and market access, forming and strengthening producer groups and cooperatives through training, learning exchange, multi-stakeholder dialogue platforms, business mentoring, and coaching in gender, life skills, financial and basic literacy, and numeracy skills. We strengthen the ability of smallholder’s farmers and farm workers to withstand the effects of climate change as well as changes in the prices of goods and products.
We empower smallholder farmers by sharing best practices and utilizing community-based agricultural extension to increase their knowledge of climate-smart agriculture, agro-ecology, and nature-based solutions.
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With your support, we can protect habitat for endangered species, provide direct assistance to conservationists and defenders at risk; provide livelihoods support to marginalized women groups; form and strengthen producer groups and cooperatives through training, learning exchange, multi-stakeholder dialogue platforms, business mentoring, and coaching in gender, life skills, financial and basic literacy, and numeracy skills.
Interested in sharing our story? contact us to schedule interviews and learning sessions about our work.
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With your support, ED can protect habitat for endangered species, provide direct assistance to defenders of lands, forests, and human rights at risk in the Albertine rift and Congo Basin; provide livelihoods support to marginalized women groups; form and strengthen producer groups and cooperatives through training, learning exchange, multi-stakeholder dialogue platforms, business mentoring, and coaching in gender, life skills, financial and basic literacy, and numeracy skills.
Are you interested in sharing our story? You can contact us to schedule interviews and learning sessions to shout out about the important work that we do.
We are open to collaborating with individuals and institutions anywhere whose missions are in line with our works. You can contact us to discuss collaboration on:
contact@watetezi.org
PO-BOX, 9520
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