Practical Training in Mbarara

Michael Ssango, a consultant to Living Earth Uganda (LEU), delivers highly practical training sessions in Mbarara in Southwestern Uganda, enouraging communities to make the most of their local resources and teaching them how to market and advertise their locally produced goods.

This activity formed part of the programme actions of the Urban Livelihoods Project. The Urban Livelihoods Project in Uganda sought to generate income for households, groups and enterprises through environmentally sound activities.

The project built upon and compliments the project activities of the Public-Private Partnerships for the Urban Environment, which was completed in 2004 and aimed to:

Generate income for households, groups and enterprises from disadvantaged localities in 6 municipalities through environmentally sound activities.

Facilitate the involvement of groups and enterprises in partnerships with local government, which address environmental problems in the poorest areas of the 6 municipalities.

Build the capacity and confidence among community organisations to engage government and ensure the voices of disadvantaged groups are heard and their right to a safe and healthy environment is respected.

Facilitate sustained environmental improvement for the poorest communities in the 6 municipalities.

Share and spread income generating waste recycling activities at a household level.

Drawing on its previous project activities, LEU identified a number of successful household level initiatives that recycled waste and generated income. The project was designed to encourage the spread of such activities, with a particular emphasis on women; through training and demonstration as well as wider promotion through various media.

Activities included backyard gardening, the growing of fruit, vegetables and mushrooms in sacks and tins for sale or consumption, manufacture of cooking fuel briquettes from plantain/banana peelings for domestic use and sale through to the production of liquid fertiliser using either household waste or domestic animal waste.

The project was funded by Comic Relief.

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