Uganda Biodiversity Trust Fund (UBTF) with funding awarded by USAID has begun implementation of USAID’s Uganda Biodiversity Fund Activity worth $2.5m (Ush9.2 billion). The five-year program from 2020 to 2024 focusing on sustainability of biodiversity conservation and natural resource management at national level, will be largely executed by community organizations, private sector enterprises and government agencies.

The main objectives of the project discussed during a stakeholder workshop at Protea Hotel in Kololo, Kampala are to strengthen Uganda Biodiversity Fund into an effective and efficient national Conservation Trust Fund, to implement a grants program with diversification, as well to strengthen partnerships with relevant stakeholders in biodiversity conservation. Biodiversity conservation is the protection and management of various plant and animal species to acquire resources for sustainable development.

As its core mandate, Uganda Biodiversity Trust Fund (UBTF) in partnership with Rotary Mission Green (a program of Rotary Uganda) and funding support from USAID Uganda raised 100 Million (A hundred Million) in pledges during its inaugural ‘Friends of the Environment’ Breakfast Fundraiser held at Sheraton Kampala Hotel on Tuesday, September 24^th, 2019.

The joint ‘Friends of the Environment’ campaign seeks to inspire individuals and the general public to adapt to sustainable and renewable ways of living by focusing on reducing, reusing and recycling whenever possible in order to save the environment and biodiversity loss. The initiative is aimed at raising funds to invest in projects that will help to maintain the flow of goods and services from natural ecosystems, secure health lives of people and wildlife and sustain nature-based businesses.