After years of having environmental funds focusing only on specific niches in Uganda, local, national and international stakeholders agreed that a national platform needed to be created to address the gap in conservation financing within the country. The Uganda Biodiversity Trust Fund (UBTF), commonly known by its brand name – Uganda Biodiversity Fund (UBF) has a mission to mobilize financial resources for Biodiversity Conservation in Uganda.
Thus UBTF was born and registered in August 2016 under the Trustees Incorporation Act of 1939, Chapter 165. UBTF subsequently went into contractual agreement with WCS for program funding support, from USAID, during 2017-2019, that focused on institutional building.