Environmental Alert (EA)
PO Box 11259, Kampala, Uganda
Contact persons:
Jacinta Nekesa, Environmental Alert – jacinta.nekesa@envalert.org
Alex Lwakuba, Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry & Fisheries (MAAIF) – alexlwakuba@yahoo.com
Prolinnova–Uganda is an NGO-led initiative to develop a national learning network for the promotion of local innovation in ecologically oriented agriculture and natural resource management (NRM). Prolinnova–Uganda was initiated in 2003, with the secretariat at Environmental Alert, an NGO. The programme seeks to: Set up an effective multistakeholder partnership programme in Uganda Set up lasting …
The report summarises the activities carried out by Prolinnova-Uganda partners in 2023. Check for details here.
In the March 2024 edition of the Appropriate Technology magazine, three articles submitted by Prolinnova Country Platforms were published: An article about joint experimentation related to household poultry that has been initiated in South Africa An article about a national farmers day in Ghana where farmer innovators received awards An article from Uganda about how …
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Prolinnova Uganda Annual report _2022_FINAL
The 2019 report of the Prolinnova–Uganda Country Platform (CP) presents its key achievements, challenges and perspectives. Although the CP is constrained in terms of external funding, interactions between the members and key stakeholders in agricultural research and development in Uganda continue through information exchange and networking, as well as participation in activities led by CP …
The 2018 annual report from Prolinnova–Uganda presents the key achievements, challenges and perspectives during the year. Despite funding constraints, the Secretariat at Environmental Alert ensured that the Country Platform (CP) remained visible and active among the members, key stakeholders and partners. This was achieved through facilitating and supporting networking activities among members for information sharing …
A total of eight cases of farmer-led joint experimentation in agriculture or NRM – two from each of the four Country Platforms involved – were brought together in the publication Compilation of cases of joint experimentation from Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
On 3 September 2017, a Farmer Innovation Fair was held at the Youth Association for Rural Development (YARD) offices in Ngogwe Sub-County in Buikwe District of Uganda. It was supported by HORIZONT3000, the Austrian Organization for Development Cooperation, under the auspices of their programme on “Enabling Rural Innovation (ERI) East Africa Project” in Uganda and …
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This was conducted largely through implementation of targeted participatory processes involving key stakeholders at community, local and national levels, as part of activity implementation under the CLIC–SR project. Consequently, the following publications were generated and disseminated: A booklet of innovations for climate change adaptation and mitigation; Policy brief on innovations for climate change adaptation and …
Prolinnova–Uganda gives an update on its work in completing the CLIC–SR work in 2016, including two examples of farmer-led joint experimentation that were documented as case studies. Also a booklet and a policy brief were published on innovations for climate change adaptation in Uganda. Numerous dialogues with policy- and decision-makers in research, academia, government and …
This report of presents highlights of the activities of the Prolinnova–Uganda Country Platform in the period January–December 2015. These included the identification of still more farmer innovations, multistakeholder learning and exchange on local innovation and participatory innovation development (PID), capacity building in PID and climate-change adaptation, and mainstreaming PID within Ugandan institutions concerned with agricultural …
