Disaster Risk Reduction and Environmental Protection

Tree Planting

Tree planting is one of the community projects that is supported by BRUCI as a conservation strategy. To encourage community members to undertake tree planting on their private land, we created a tree planting project to reward individuals who excel in planting trees.

BRUCI is working with local communities to solve the challenges of land degradation through massive mobilization of communities to engage in Sustainable Land Management (SLM). Activities such as construction of trenches, planting of Calandra seedlings to stabilize bands, planting bamboo on the edges of the steep land to reduce water run-off.

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene

BRUCI contributes to the national efforts to reduce pollution as well as deforestation through training their community members in energy saving stoves use.

The energy saving stoves built by BRUCI trained communities require less firewood to produce the same amount of heat as an open fire because they are well insulated.  They also produce less smoke to mitigate the effect of health and environmental damaging emissions like carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.

Although the local people will continue to collect firewood, for using in the new stoves, the amount collected will within a specific time period, be reduced.  BRUCI has started training its beneficiaries of Biogas making through using plant and animal waste. This has begun with the heifer beneficiaries.  

Energy Saving Technologies

A large proportion of families in BRUCI implementation area cook over an open fire. They not only require firewood in order to do this, which is a cause of greater deforestation, but these fires also produce smoke which damages both human health and the environment. This scenario isn’t different from their rural counterparts in other parts of Uganda.  

As a conservation organization, BRUCI contributes to the national efforts to reduce pollution as well as deforestation through training their community members in energy saving stoves use.

The energy saving stoves built by BRUCI trained communities require less firewood to produce the same amount of heat as an open fire because they are well insulated.  They also produce less smoke to mitigate the effect of health and environmental damaging emissions like carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.

Although the local people will continue to collect firewood, for using in the new stoves, the amount collected will within a specific time period, be reduced.  BRUCI has started training its beneficiaries of Biogas making through using plant and animal waste. This has begun with the heifer beneficiaries.  

Sustainable Land Management (SLM)

The communities living adjacent the two National parks are engaged in subsistence farming as a source of livelihood for food and income generation. Due to poor methods of farming, over cultivation, steepness of the land (gradient), high rainfall intensity among others, makes the area susceptible to soil erosion thus which affects crop production.

In an effort to curb all the above encumbrances, BRUCI is working with local communities to solve the challenges of land degradation through massive mobilization of communities to engage in Sustainable Land Management (SLM). Activities such as construction of trenches, planting of Calandra seedlings to stabilize bands, planting bamboo on the edges of the steep land to reduce water run-off.