Stakeholder Engagement for Promoting Ecosystem Service, Sanitation Education and Community Resilience to Climate Change Education in Eastern Uganda Case Study Session Dr Edward Andama, RCE Greater Eastern Uganda 9th African Regional RCE Meeting 5-7 August, 2019, Luyengo, Eswatini

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STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT FOR PROMOTING
ECOSYSTEM SERVICE, SANITATION EDUCATION AND
COMMUNITY RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE EDUCATION
IN EASTERN UGANDA
Dr. Edward Andama (Coordinator GEURCE)
E-mail: e.andama@sci.busitema.ac.ug
andamaedward@gmail.com
Tel: +256-772-4642792/704-281806
9th African RCE Regional Meeting on “Accelerating
Progress Towards The Achievement Of Sustainable
Development Goals In Africa”
5TH -7TH AUGUST 2019
UNIVERSITY OF ESWATINI . LUYENGO CAMPUS, ESWATINI
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
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About Greater Eastern Uganda RCE
Background
Why Stakeholder Engagement
Strategies for engagement of Key Stakeholders
RCE activities that focus on stakeholder engagement for
promoting or contributing to SDG in the GEURCE region.
Success and lessons learnt for scaling
Conclusion
GREATER EASTERN UGANDA REGIONAL CENTRE OF EXPERTISE
Acknowledged in
December 2012.
Officially Lunched ON
MONDAY 22ND JULY
2013
AT Busitema University
By The State Minister for
Higher Education
Honorable Dr. John
Chrysostom Muyingo
Launch at
Busitema University
Main Campus 22nd
July 2013
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BACKGROUND
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 SDGs provide the road map for achieving sustainable development –However,
this development path requires wide scale societal transformation, and a
transition away from actions, systems, mind-sets and lifestyle choices that
have eroded and degraded the systems that sustain life on Earth.
 To achieve SDG requires expansion and amplification of a new, more socially
just and sustainable world order, characterized by practices, processes and
systems that contribute pro-actively to the well-being of all people, and all life
on Earth.
 This is where RCE can contribute through innovative ideas, activities and
strategies to achieving the SDGs through promoting Education for Sustainable
development.
ENGAGING STAKEHOLDERS:
A stakeholder is any person or entity that has an interest in the success or failure
of a business or project. Stakeholders can have a significant impact on decisions
regarding the operations and finances of an organization.
Some of the key
stakeholders for the
RCEs.
The key stakeholders
are the development
partners, local
government authorities
and statutory bodies
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
“Benefits of environment to humanity termed as ecosystem services are
numerous and include direct benefits in form of food, energy,
employment, incomes, quality of life and provide other ecosystem
indirect services such as pollination that improve food security, water
catchment, increased resilience to shocks and stresses.
Climate resilience can be generally defined as the capacity for a socio-
ecological system to: absorb stresses and maintain function in the
face of external stresses imposed upon it by climate change.

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Challenges faced by RCEs in executing their
mandate
 RCEs have the best objective but executing their mandate is limited by many factors
including:
finance resources
Human resources
Time to undertake the activities
 Many organization have some of the key resources that the RCE s need to execute
their activities.
 Moreover some of the stakeholders may have similar intentions to that of the RCEs.
 The issues is what can RCEs do to benefit from the recourses available in other
originations?
The strategy being highlighted in this case study is what strategies are available for
RCEs to benefit from the resources of other partners ?
Major sustainability challenge faced in the
GEURCE region:
o Land degradation: There is concern over increasing land degradation in the
Eastern Uganda.
o Climate change: results in droughts, floods, and soil erosion through
landslides‟ this affects food security, sanitation, spread of diseases reduced
production etc.,.
o High disease burden Disease burden: comprising of communicable and non-
communicable
o High degradation of natural vegetation ; leading to loss of forest cover in
both public and private forests.
o High poverty level: In general, eastern Uganda is rated as one of the regions with
the highest level of poverty.
o Urban waste management: The volume of solid waste generated in urban
centers in eastern region urban centers
Specific linkage to the SDGs
 i. Accelerate economic growth and raise per capita income through targeted
investments in priority sectors with the highest green growth multiplier effects;
 ii. Achieve inclusive economic growth along with poverty reduction, improved
human welfare and employment creation;
 iii. Ensure that the social and economic transition is achieved through a low
carbon development pathway that safeguards the integrity of the environment
and natural resources.
 The opportunity to develop collaboration and linking this to many SDGs and
Uganda's National Development Agenda (NDA).
How GEURCE leveraged opportunity of working
with other stakeholders operating in the region
Developing close working relationship of between RCE and the
targeted stakeholders through developing Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) or Corporation (MoC).
Several stakeholders were systematically targeted and these
included:
1. National Forest Authority
2. Uganda Wildlife Authority
3. Local Governments at the district level
4. International Union for Conservation and Nature (IUCN)
5. Nature Uganda
To strengthen the relationship the loose
relationship : Through Developing MoU for
sustainable management case of West Bugwe
Central Forest Reserve and surrounding areas
o Memorandum of
understanding or
Memorandum of
corporation were signed.
o This guided in the
operation and defined
what could be done and
the kind f partnership
among others.
Local district representative (right). Andama E.
(center) with the executive director of NFA (Left)
during negotiation for MoU
LOCATION OF WEST BUGWE CENTRAL FOREST RESERVE

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Challenges faced at West Bugwe Central
Forest reserve
o West Bugwe Central Forest Reserve (CFR) is currently faced with
continuously worsening degradation trends through encroachment,
deforestation through rampant felling of trees for timber, firewood and
charcoal burning, rampant fires and livestock damage on the forest
among others.
o The forest is highly degraded because of agricultural encroachment,
illegal timber harvesting and charcoal burning.
o A large part of the forest has been affected by burning and livestock
grazing.
o lack of effective and functional collaboration with local government
and the local communities, leading to continued degradation of the
forest and its resources.
Example of activities implemented in collaboration with
stakeholders- Research.
Team of students during orientation for research topic
identification at WBCFR offices
Tree planting in the degraded
areas
Improving our environment – Green Campus
initiatives campus
Collaboration with Local governments and the
communities on good sanitation practices
o Key activities include sensitization of the community
leaders.
o Sensitizations of the communities
o Being exemplary through participating in the clean
up activities
Sanitation promotion through Solid
waste management in Community
Engaging community leaders and the police
Cleaning begins with town council offices.
Youth leaders engaged in
promoting good sanitation ijn
communities
Youths cleaning
LC III councilor offers tree
seeds
Garbage collection center

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ENVIRONMENTAL OUTCOMES
Enhanced biodiversity on the West Bugwe CFR and
at the campus and schools environment.
Improved waste recycling in the school, up coming
urban centers – paper, plastic, food scraps, garden
waste.
The school has environmentally minded students.
ENVIRONMENTAL OUTCOMES
Propagation of local indigenous plants for local needs.
The aesthetics of the campus and school grounds.
The local nature reserves are being created in schools.
On environmental campaigns- students now take
responsible decisions and promote such within their
communities
SOCIAL OUTCOMES
Students, staff, community and experts have been involved
in the program and have ownership of it.
Partnerships have been developed with the community,
such as links with local Governments , schools NU, UWA,
IUCN etc.
Increased student leadership and social responsibility, self
esteem, a sense of belonging and ownership.
SOCIAL OUTCOMES
Students are more confident and enjoy group work in the
garden (building social capital).
Students have positions of responsibility and have become
community environmental watchdogs (e.g. monitoring
household garden watering against restrictions)
Mentoring of young students.
The whole schools, campus, the community have gained pride
in the way activities are being implemented.
LESSONS AND OPPORTUNITIES
 All interventions require funds
– There is currently no guaranteed source of funds but the RCE
leverages on the opportunity o work together with the institutions that
have funds
More commitment from stakeholder through MoUs.
 RCE Leadership sustainability is enhanced through training youth in
leadership positions.
 Fund raising/Donor sourcing for support activities done jointly.
SUCCESS FACTORS
 Opportunity to have focused MoUs to which guides activities
and engagement opportunities with stakeholders.
 Support of the key partner institutions such as university and
partners institution leadership team. And conservation NGOs .
 The university outreach functions and responsibilities made it
easy to implement activities.
 Integrating sustainability into institutional operations and across
the curriculum.

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CONCLUSION
RCEs can play significant role in contributing to Sustainable
development Goal of their communities by becoming a dynamic
nucleus and a hub for lifelong learning and practice for contributing to
sustainable development goals.
The opportunity to develop a more focused engagements through
developing and signing of Memorandum of Understanding or
corporation with the key stakeholders.
RCEs need to upscale and mainstream successes stories and
activities and need to learn form one another
The end
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Acknowledgements
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