Category: Civil Society Empowerment

Power in Enterprise: A Manual to Strengthen the Internal Governance of Community-Based Enterprise Organizations

Published jointly by CARE, the International Gorilla Conservation Programme, and Oxfam in December 2011 is a manual to strengthen internal governance of community-based enterprise organizations. Foreward: The empowerment of local actors and institutions is a cornerstone of social and economic development. Decades of experience have taught us solid lessons. One of these is that if [...]

Wednesday January 11th, 2012 in Civil Society Empowerment, ENTERPRISES, Organization strengthening, REGIONAL | No Comments »

EEEGL Technical Briefs

The EEEGL Project has intervened in a number of areas in Uganda and Rwanda, working at multiple levels and sectors to improve enterprise, environment and equity in areas around the mountain gorilla parks. The following technical briefs have been developed and can be viewed or downloaded from this page. Also view the EEEGL Documents page [...]

Friday December 16th, 2011 in Agriculture value chains, Civil Society Empowerment, ENTERPRISES, Learning and Policy Analysis, Natural Resource Management, Organization strengthening, Rain water harvesting, UGANDA, Village saving and loan associations | No Comments »

Cross-cutting efforts to integrate Historically Marginalized People

“To be marginalized” in a Rwandan society means that you don’t have access to opportunities as other members of your community, and that lack of equal opportunity persists from generation to generation. What it feels like, day-to-day, is that your children are not able to freely play with your neighbor’s children, or that you are [...]

Monday October 24th, 2011 in Civil Society Empowerment, Land tenure, Participation in local development, RWANDA | No Comments »

Providing safe water to communities around Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, Uganda

Water is one of the most basic necessities of life, but something that many people struggle to find within the Virunga Landscape. Annual rainfall is plentiful but water sources are rare due to the volcanic geology that either forces rainwater to quickly runoff or infiltrate deeply. The International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP), as part of [...]

Monday October 10th, 2011 in Organization strengthening, Participation in local development, Rain water harvesting, RWANDA, UGANDA, Village saving and loan associations, Water resource management | No Comments »

From Profile to Vision: Community-based planning in Uganda

Taking hold in the Great Lakes region is the system of ground-up development, in which the lowest level of government, LC1 in Uganda, directly tied to a small population it represents, conceives of their own plans for development and then sends them up through the government chain. These systems are aspirational and require that appropriate [...]

Wednesday June 29th, 2011 in Accountability, Civil Society Empowerment, Participation in local development, UGANDA | No Comments »

Addressing the land crunch near Volcanoes National Park

There are many things that a family passes from generation to generation- customs, morals, stories- but in the Great Lakes region of Africa, there is one thing above all else on which the next generation can stake it’s economic prosperity- land. Near Volcanoes National Park (PNV) in northwest Rwanda, population densities range between 500-1000 people [...]

Wednesday April 20th, 2011 in Civil Society Empowerment, Land tenure, Natural Resource Management, RWANDA | 1 Comment »

Enterprises at the grassroots: dealing with internal governance

The EEEGL programme supports community-based organizations or enterprises (we call them often enterprise CBOs or ECBOs) to deliver social, economic and environmental goods. Our strategy relies on identifying development opportunities, nurturing local actors and linking these enterprises to local, regional and national markets. The impact of these initiatives depends on a number of factors, including [...]

Friday November 26th, 2010 in Agriculture value chains, Civil Society Empowerment, Ecotourism, ENTERPRISES, Learning and Policy Analysis, Organization strengthening, REGIONAL | No Comments »