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Welcome
to the CECOD Family
NOTE:
Please bare with us, the website
is still being developed but feel
free to contact us.
cecod@utlonline.co.ug
or cecodug@yahoo.com
For now, you may want
to know
what CECOD is !
CECOD is Conservation
Efforts for Community Development,
based in Uganda and accredited
to the United Nations Convention
to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
CECOD was founded in 1999 to empower
communities in Uganda for popular
participation in environmental
conservation for sustainable community
development,
From 1999 to 2005 CECOD's concentration
was in Mbarara District with special
focus on:
Community mobilization and training
CECOD institutional development
Coalition building for effective
execution of sustainable natural
resource management interventions
in Uganda.
In 2006 CECOD launched a National
Eco Community School Programme
as a tool for Education for Sustainable
Development (ESD) in Uganda through
a national institutional bottom
up networking framework for sustainability.
CECOD welcomes
well wishers and all stakeholders
for joint efforts to save the
environment, transform society
and to ensure justice; as it echoes
the plea for you to 'conserve
and develope' throuh education
for sustainability.
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STRATEGIC
GOALS
Enhance peoples
action competences for effective
participation in development programmes
affecting their livelihoods; with
special focus on children, women
and grass root communities
Stimulate action against threats
to ecosystems and bio-diversity
loss.
Guarantee sustainable land productivity,
increased household income and
food security among local communities;
and sustainable use of energy,
water and forestry sources in
Uganda.
Ensure that CECOD becomes an effective
and efficient organization capable
of mobilizing and empowering communities
for collective action on pertinent
issues affecting their quality
of life.
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