Article drafted by Niels Lenderink, Senior Programme Manager A consortium involving Meta Meta Research, CDE at University of Bern (WOCAT), Acacia Water and AidEnvironment, funded by the World Bank, is developing the Water Potential Estimator (WPE). The WPE is the second in the series of online tools developed by the consortium. The first one is the Water Harvesting Explorer (WHE), […]
By Anne Kikundwa, Okot Brian, Lukwago Brian, AidEnvironment East Africa Office. At the core of integrated water resources management (IWRM) is the need for equitable, beneficial and sustainable use of water and environment resources. IWRM has been widely adopted by governments and both national and international organisations. AidEnvironment seeks to further its adoption. To achieve this, AidEnvironment engaged all stakeholders […]
The Uganda Water and Environment Week (UWEWK) is an event organized annually by the Ministry of Water and Environment (MWE) through the Water Resources Institute (WRI). Since its inception in 2018, the event seeks to contribute towards the attainment of sustainable socio economic transformation and achieving the Ugandan National Development Plan and vision 2040. This year, AidEnvironment joined other partners in […]
Author: Marco Garcia, Deforestation-free supply chains team AidEnvironment’s real-time deforestation monitoring (RDM) system has detected a recent clearing inside SLC Agricola’s Fazenda Palmares located in Barreiras municipality, Bahia state, Brazil. This farm and an earlier case of native vegetation loss linked to a fire event have been reported by AidEnvironment and included in Earthsight’s recently published Fashion Crimes investigation. The […]
For the first time, the AidEnvironment team has collated a snapshot of the work we have undertaken across issue areas and geographies. Looking back at 2023, we continued to strengthen and improve our initiatives in the Sector Transformation field by undertaking assessments and strategic development for stakeholders aiming for fairer and more inclusive supply chains. We likewise increased our […]
Article drafted by Kikundwa Anne & Lukwago Brian In Lwakhakha, Uganda, women are the primary users of cookstoves, often bearing the responsibility of securing cooking fuel like wood and charcoal to prepare meals for the family. Most of the households in the Lwakhakha sub-region rely on traditional cookstoves that burn wood and charcoal. However, these fuels are inefficient, costly, and unhealthy. Traditional cooking emits carbon monoxide and other toxic fumes that are harmful to human health, leading to many deaths each year. Women […]
Article drafted by Sarah Drost, Deforestation-free Supply Chain Team, 21 February 2024 Since 2019, AidEnvironment’s Deforestation-free Supply Chains Team has expanded its support to European and non-European legislative initiatives, either by backing the adoption of strong laws and guiding their effective implementation, or by substantiating strategic litigation under the legal acts adopted through a focus on non-compliance cases, supply chain […]
By Javier Silas Omagor In a collaborative effort, the government through the ministry of water and environment, (MWE), along with partners such as World Bank and AidEnvironment has ramped up restoration activities in a disaster-prone Mt. Elgon area to enhance resilience and mitigate the impact of future calamities. This was revealed on December, Saturday, 16, at the well-attended ceremony to […]
Ondanks de toezegging van AH en Makro om niet langer Braziliaans ontbossingsrundvlees in te kopen, belandt er nog steeds dubieus rundvlees in hun schappen. Daarmee dragen de retailers bij aan vernietiging van het leefgebied van verschillende diersoorten in Brazilië. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van World Animal Protection, uitgevoerd door onderzoeksbureau AidEnvironment. Nederland importeert grote hoeveelheden rundvlees uit Brazilië. In 2022 maar liefst 16.566 ton. Uit onderzoek van de internationale dierenbeschermingsorganisatie blijkt dat het ontbossingsvlees in verschillende Nederlandse […]
