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Improving Food Security & Diversification of Livelihood Opportunities for Communities in Karamoja region

April 15, 2014

Implementation of environmental management activities in the Karamoja region In light of the twin problems of climate change and environmental degradation with an effort to increase the adaptive capacity of the vulnerable communities to mitigate droughts/floods, FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in collaboration with JEEP - Joint Energy and Environment Projects are supporting communities in Karamoja to build resilience through implementation of environmental management activities in the region.

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Knowledge, Advocacy and Lobbying for the Benefit of Renewable Energy and Climate Change Mitigation in Uganda

April 15, 2014

Update May 2015 Members of Parliament seminar on KAL Project Members of parliament from the district where KAL project is carried out together with the members of Parliamentary Forum on Climate Change (PFCC) were invited. However, a big number of them did not turn up due to many committees which were sitting at the same time. We were also told that others were back having campaigning for the coming elections.

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Media Awareness Learning Tour Project

April 15, 2014

Joint Energy and Environment Projects hosted local media houses in Uganda on the 9th December 2013 by carrying out the Media Awareness Learning Tour at the demonstration center with the goal of Educating, Communicating and providing Information to spread extensively to diverse audiences within and without Uganda. JEEP successfully implemented the awareness initiative where 17 people from the media; (Newspapers, Radio, TV) attended and participated . It was acknowledged by JEEP staff that globally media plays a profound role in promoting a universal understanding of the fact that the world faces environmental crises and that developing nations hold an important key to saving the earth, yet the demand for biomass energy has outstripped the sustainable supply with a rapidly growing population of 34.

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JEEP & ENVenture energy saving shop

March 5, 2013

Beginning in 2007, when JEEP’s staff received a solar training by experts of the Nordic folkecenter and Mali folkecenter, JEEP’s solar projects in Uganda have been highly successful. One of the first villages to be included in one of those projects was Wabutungulu in Luwero District. A solar run phone charging shop for the local community opened its gates in 2008 and will now be turned into an energy saving shop using an elaborated business concept.

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Right Light

February 27, 2013

Right Light is a project founded and funded by Enactus Southampton at the University of Southampton. It has been successful in Madagascar and Kenya before and JEEP has partnered with Enactus to implement the scheme in rural Uganda in January 2013. Right Light aims at spreading the use of solar lamps within Ugandan communities. After getting to know the targeted villages and giving out testing lamps, JEEP provides a chosen resident with financial and technical training to become a local entrepreneur for their village, running a solar lamp renting/selling business.

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TRAction project

September 11, 2012

TRAction project is aimed at developing, testing and evaluating state of the art behavior change interventions to improve the acquisition and correct use of a locally fabricated mwoto stove in Uganda. This project is funded by USAID through University Research Corporation (URC). It is implemented by Program for Appropriate Technologies in Health (PATH), Joint Energy And Environment Projects (JEEP) and Center for Research in Energy and Energy Conservation (CREEC). The TRAction project will integrate behaviour change interventions including a direct sale model.

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