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EMLI Bwaise Facility Executive Director partcipated at the eleventh session of the Global Major Groups and Stakeholders Forum as Africa regional representative, Simultaneous extraordinary conferences of Parties (ExCOPs) to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions as an observer organisation and the eleventh special session of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GC/GMEF), from 21-26 February 2010 in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. Ministers and heads of delegations produced the Nusa Dua Declaration at the conclusion of the eleventh special session of the GC/GMEF. Declaration

<<From left-Right: Gerald Musoke Sawula-Deputy Executive Director, NEMA; Hon Jessica Eriyo-State Minister for Environment and Robert Bakiika-Executive Director EMLI Bwaise Facility during the 11th special session of the GC/GMEF at Bali International Conference Center, Bali Indonesia.

On behalf of Environmental Management for Livelihood Improvement Bwaise Facility, I welcome you to our website. The website shows our contribution and inputs towards achieving environmental sustainability. Recognizing that human beings have the capacity to damage, knowingly or unknowingly, our ecosystems have been put under severe pressure and our natural capital is becoming more depleted. Issues such as environmental governance, climate change, deforestation, unsustainable exploitation and depletion of biological resources, drought and desertification, hazardous chemicals and waste management are addressed in our programme of action. Read More...

   << From Left-Right: Ambassador Agnes Kadama Kalibaala-Permanent representative to UNEP and UN-Habitat; Robert Bakiika-Executive Director Environmental Management for Livelihood Improvement Bwaise Facility and Hon. Jessica Eriyo-State Minister for Environment during the 25th  session of the General Council/Global Environment Ministerial Forum (25 GC/GMEF) at the United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya.

EMLI Bwaise Facility at COP15/CMP5

 At numerous side events and meetings at the UN climate meeting COP15/CMP5 in Copenhagen, Denmark, Environmental Management for Livelihood Improvement Bwaise Facility (EMLI Bwaise Facility-Uganda; Executive Director-Mr. Robert Bakiika) was engaged in policy discussions and exchanged views on issues such as mitigation and combating degradation as opposed to deforestation, the Economics of Adaptation to climate change (by The World Bank at Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs)and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) under the project support of Kyoto: Think Global, Act Local (K:TGAL) a research and capacity building program, financed by the Netherlands Development Cooperation. EMLI Bwaise Facility presentations drew upon case studies from Uganda and featured research in Senegal and Tanzania. On a rare occasion, EMLI Bwaise Facility attended the open plenary of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex 1 Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) deliberated on various issues such as unstreamlined information flow to Observers for constructive dialogue with the committee. Read more...

Copenhagen Accord Full Version: Download.

Annual Report 2009 We are pleased to present the first Annual Report of EMLI Bwaise Facility's work in achieving a sustainable livelihood. As this report brings up the first intervantion to our 5 year strategic plan (2008-2013) which focus at addressing environmental issues at local, national and transnational levels, Education and HIV/AIDS.  We are mandated to inform you about what we have done.