For close to a year now, JESE with support from CARE, has been implementing the Fill the Nutrition Gap (FNG) Project in Kyaka II refugee settlement in Kyegegwa district. The project was as a result of the fact that most of the development partners were paying attention to other issues and living out the component

On November 24th, Joint Effort to Save the Environment (JESE) under the Rwenzori Agroecology Platform (RAP) with support from Iles de Paix (IDP) and CARE are organized an indigenous seed and food fair in Rwenzori Sub Region. The event took place at Reinah Hotel in Fort Portal Tourism City and was concluded with an exhibition

On November 22nd and 23rd, JESE conducted a training of key stakeholders from Agago District Local Government on using the Menstrual Health Management (MHM++) manual. The manual targets women and out-of-school girls and was developed by MHM master trainers along with Ministry of Education and Sports (MOES) with support from Nuffic and funded by Orange

Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) are a valuable social safety-net for vulnerable groups of people. They provide a sort of adaptation financing and increase financial choices for poverty-stricken populations in the face of climate changeand Pandemics. For us JESE, we learn that VSLAs are a valuable social safety-net for vulnerable groups of people. They

My name is Kaija Paul from Matiri in Kihuura Sub County, Kyenjojo district. I started working with JESE as a farmer from the year 2000, when Kyenjojo was actually still part of Kabarole district. JESE came with its agenda that included transforming agriculture, environmental protection that included planting trees, Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs),

In 2018, JESE partnered with Wash Alliance International (WAI)/ WASH SDG to implement a WASH SGD in Agago Sub Catchment aimed at contributing to sustainable and equitable access to and use of inclusive WASH services by communities through the adoption and scale up of improved WASH behavioural services. This project is being implemented in the

Nam central, Kamonojwii and Latinling Namare villages in Latinling parish, Geregere subcounty, Agago district. These villages are south of River Agago and sit in the hotspot areas identified at the beginning of the project along Olupe micro sub catchment that feeds into the River Agago where the WASH SDG 6 sub programme is being implemented

Joint Effort to Save the Environment with funding from IDP is implementing a program called Mpanga Super Farmers Program (MSFP) in Kabambiro sub county, Kamwenge District. This program aims at striking a balance between environmental, social and economic aspects in the implementing communities.

Joint Effort to Save the Environment (JESE) over the years has been engaging farming households in Kabarole, Kyenjojo and Kamwenge to improve incomes and nutrition security through dairy farming with a focus on zero grazing. To address the nutrition challenges in the region, JESE has also focused on engaging and supporting the primary schools and

Through the work of JESE, I became civically empowered. When I was mobilising and forming groups, many people embraced it and were happy to join because I convinced them that it would work out. I later contested to be the District Woman Councilor and was elected unopposed both at party primaries and general elections. There

For a long time, JESE has been working to protect the forested areas in Kyenjojo, specifically Matiri and Itwara. But restoration also comes with a question of alternative sources of livelihood for those who encroach on these forests. As an alternative source of livelihood, JESE with partners like Forests of the World, has looked at

The Integrated Community Response to Conserve, Restore, and Protect the Ecosystem in Mpanga Gorge is developed in line with the objective to contribute significantly to the sustainable preservation of the catchment area, where the Mpanga hydropower plant is located in Western Uganda while improving the surrounding communities’ livelihood. The project will consist of community-based participatory

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Tusiime Oliver, a 29-year-old female from Kyembogo village, Mirambi parish, Kyembogo Sub-County, Kyenjojo district, is one of our beneficiaries in the Skill Up! program.  Implemented by Joint Effort to Save the environment-JESE with funding from Welthungerhilfe WHH and BMZ, the program aims to skill the vulnerable youth aged 18 to 30 years.  Tusiime’s dream was

 Female youth in Kyarusozi Sub-County are being skilled at St. John Bosco Vocation Institute, Kyenjojo district, with funding from Welthungerhilfe WHH and BMZ. Skill up! program phase 2 is being implemented by Joint Effort to Save the Environment- JESE.  5 out of the 22 youths enrolled in the program are females who, in one way