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About Eco Schools

Eco-Schools is an international programme for environmental education and management, with the aim of raising students’ awareness of sustainable development issues through classroom study as well as school and community action.

Management and implementation of the programme is carried out by national non-governmental organisations that become members of FEE.

In 2006, CECOD in collaboration with Danish Outdoor Council (DOC) introduced the EcoSchool concept in Uganda, and by 2009; CECOD had been formerly registered as the FEE member NGO representing Uganda to promote the EcoSchool concept country wide.

In 2010, the Eco-Schools Approach was acknowledged by the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Education as an appropriate tool to enhance ESD in Uganda. CECOD is implementing the programme in Uganda in collaboration with Ministry of Education, Commission Teacher Education, Child to Child –KyambogoUniversity, NEMA, NCDC and the Uganda Commission for UNESCO. Form 2010 to 2013, the programmetargets 250 schools, with over 98,000 pupils, 2,000 Teachers, 200 Parents Associations, and 3 Primary Teacher Colleges (PTCs) with a total of 60 Tutors.

The Eco-Schools Approach aims at achieving sustainable environmental management at the local level through schools. Using schools as spring-boards for reaching communities, the programme offers a flexible way of supporting environmental education processes at school level through integrating development experiences with classroom studies and applying certain principles and guidelines to the day-to-day running of schools. In this way the Eco-Schools programme assists in solving real/ existing environmental problems while planning in advance to prevent future advent of adverse environmental, social – economic impacts.

The concept of Eco-school is derived from the notion of putting the environment at the center of learning in your school. This entails ensuring that environmental concerns form part of the curriculum in their day to day running of the school. This may also require taking environment issues from the curriculum and applying them to the day to-day running of the school to enable pupils understand environmental issues not only at school but also in communities where they come from.

Eco-school is neither about beautifying the school nor making it green but it’s about equipping school community (pupils, teachers, and non-teaching staff) and the community surrounding the school with knowledge and skills for sustainable utilization of natural resources in order to improve their quality of life.