About

Environmental Management for Livelihood Improvement Bwaise Facility [EMLI Bwaise Facility] is a local Non- Governmental and Non- Profit making organization established in 2007 by a group of eminent scholars and policy makers in Uganda with a focus on urban environmental issues at a local level. These include air pollution, waste, biodiversity, and climate change.

Vision: An empowered, healthy and self sustaining community that focuses on forms and processes of development that do not compromise the integrity of the environment and meets the needs of the most vulnerable.

Mission: To improve the standards of living of the most vulnerable people in Kawempe division by ensuring sustainable livelihood.

Principles: Neutrality, Gender Sensitivity, Impartiality

Mandate: To empower communities to formulate and implement development plans and programmes which promote sustainable development.

Objectives

• To promote sustainable development and public awareness of the need to manage land, air and water resources in a balanced and sustainable manner for the present and future generations.
• To involve the people in the formulation and implementation of development plans and programmes which promote and maintain the greening of the urban environment, and to meet the increasing demand for forest products by urban centres.
• To ensure equitable access to quality basic education at both primary and post primary level.
• To enhance HIV/AIDS awareness efforts among youth by engaging young people in positions to influence their peers, in examination and dialogue about their role and opportunities to fully participate in the response to HIV/AIDS in Uganda.

Thematic Areas

• Urban environment
• Pollution
• Waste management
• Conservation of wetlands
• Sanitation
• Chemicals
• Climate change
• Eco-Housing

Cross Cutting Issues

• Development of research, monitoring and assessment capacity
• Gender
• Advocacy
• Education and awareness raising
• Information
• Poverty and environment
• Sustainable development

The organisation headquarters on Plot 56 Bwaise- Nabweru Road in Kawempe Division of Kampala District.

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Strategy

Our strategy for climate neutrality is forestry and sustainable land use activities that are afforestation, re-afforestation programmes are conducted in some parts of Uganda to reverse the effect of climate change and this is also in line with the second operational phase to secure global environmental benefits
in GEF focal area of mitigation of climatic change. We are also partnering with Makerere University Faculty of Forestry and Nature Conservation on sustainable forest management and eco-labeling, capacity building and raising awareness about the impact of climate change.

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