Environmental Alert (EA)

For more than 30 years Environmental Alert (EA) has been working to improve livelihoods in Uganda through several interventions in sustainable agriculture, environment and natural resources management. Currently EA’s operations are in 20 districts across the Uganda. EA undertakes structured service delivery mobilizing communities and facilitating dvelopment of their skills, approaches and furthermore, this interaction generates experiences, lessons and facts which inform EA’s issue-based advocacy agenda at the community, local, national and inter-national levels. In its advocacy work, EA employs the human rights-based approach to citizen empowerment by raising public awareness about policies, rights, roles and obligations, laws and regulations and best practices in expression of community rights. At the National level, EA has considerable experience in policy advocacy in the environment sector. EA directly influences policies and programmes through its strategic membership in the two top policy making organs of the Ministry of Watern and Environment (The Environment and Natural Resources Sub-sector WG and the Water and Environment Sector WG). Environmental Alert is the secretariat of the following nationwide networks: - PROLINNOVA - Promoting Local Innovation (https://www.prolinnova.net/uganda) - UFWG - Uganda Forestry Working Group (http://ufwg.envalert.org/) - RECSO - Renewable Energy Civil Society Network (http://recso-network.org/) - ENR-CSO - Environment & Natural Resources CSO Network (http://enr-cso.org/)