The forum comes as UWA continues to strengthen partnerships and procurement systems to support conservation. The authority is mandated to conserve and sustainably manage Uganda’s wildlife and protected areas.
Dan Petrie, the Acting Chief of Staff of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, said MCC had signed a $60 million Energy Threshold Program hours earlier. The programme aims to lower high electricity costs and improve reliability by modernising the Energy Regulatory Commission, strengthening electric cooperatives, piloting smart-grid technologies and unlocking domestic capital for power infrastructure.
No occupants will be chased from the land but will instead be registered and given certificates of occupancy to allow them to pay the nominal ground rent, ‘Busuulu.’
Handling forced evictions and remedies, best practices to conduct, concluding land reforms, issues of land fraud and forgeries, enhancing revenue generation for the government from the land sector, and documenting women’s land rights and those of indigenous communities will be tackled during the first-ever land learning week conference.