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Strength of this
Project
1. An enabling
environment for sustainable environmental
and natural resource management at the
national level and local level has been
established by the Government of Uganda
and are documented in: The Constitution of
the Republic of Uganda enacted in 1995;
The Local Governments Act, enacted in
1997; The Environment Statute (1995); The
Uganda Wildlife Statute; The Uganda
Forestry Policy and the Tourism
Policy.
2. The project will
be prepared in the context of ongoing
development in the Government of Uganda's
policy framework which emphasizes
participatory, environmentally sustainable
and decentralized development and in line
with Government policy, as expressed in
the Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP)
and Plan for Modernization of Agriculture
(PMA).
3. The project will
be designed within the above framework and
mindful of the fact that the overall
responsibility for environmental
management rests squarely with individual
Ugandans who are farmers/ peasants,
landholders and consumers. The above
framework has one goal: to lead to poverty
eradication and environmental protection,
and emphasizes the withdrawal of
government from activities that should now
be left to the private sector to
manage.
4. The main reason
for success of this project is the
emphasis on the involvement of the local
community; especially women who are the
key stakeholders and main players in
conservation or degradation of the
environment. In most Ugandan communities,
including Mukono District, women are the
ones who collect firewood from the bushes
for cooking, look for food to feed the
family, dump the rubbish, and dig to
provide food for the next season.
Empowering them with sustainable means of
livelihood will produce direct impact on
the environment.
5. Most development
projects fail in Uganda mainly because of
corruption, misappropriation of funds and
luck of accountability. Genesis Initiative
Uganda founders are people of impeccable
integrity and good moral standing in
society and will not engage in such acts
mentioned above, but will diligently
ensure that the funds received are
channeled to the cause for which they were
obtained. The project will also adopt
strong monitoring and evaluation
procedures to ensure that implementation
stays on course as planned.
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