Uganda PCLG: How did we get here?

Alessandra GiulianiKampala10 July 2015

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Uganda PCLG: How did we get here?

Uganda PCLG: How did we get here?

Alessandra GiulianiKampala10 July 2015So…

• What is U-PCLG?

• How did U-PCLG start?

• How is U-PCLG organised?

Uganda PCLG: How did we get here?

Alessandra GiulianiKampala10 July 2015What is U-PCLG?

Uganda Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (U-PCLG) is a learning network that brings together Ugandan conservationists and development practitioners to share their experiences and to work together to better inform development and conservation policy and practice.

Uganda PCLG: How did we get here?

Alessandra GiulianiKampala10 July 2015…but how did U-PCLG

start?

Uganda PCLG: How did we get here?

Alessandra GiulianiKampala10 July 2015

Poverty and Conservation Learning Group• An international network of conservation, development

organisations concerned with the links between conservation and poverty

• Established by IIED in 2005• Collect and disseminate information on conservation-

poverty linkages, undertake or support research on specific themes, organise targeted learning events

• Latest phase (from 2008) funded by the Arcus Foundation which led to its focus on great apes

Uganda PCLG: How did we get here?

Alessandra GiulianiKampala10 July 2015

http://povertyandconservation.info

Uganda PCLG: How did we get here?

Alessandra GiulianiKampala10 July 2015

Uganda PCLG: How did we get here?

Alessandra GiulianiKampala10 July 2015National PCLG groups

• PCLG workshop in November 2010 held in Masindi, Uganda• Brought together conservation organisations from different

African ape range states to share experience on what works (and what doesn’t) in linking conservation and poverty alleviation

• Participants agreed that it would be useful to establish national chapters of the PCLG network

• Uganda PCLG and Cameroon PCLG started in 2011, DRC PCLG in 2014 and currently discussing the opportunities for setting up a PCLG group in Rwanda

• Second round of funding from Arcus foundation from 2013 to 2015

Uganda PCLG: How did we get here?

Alessandra GiulianiKampala10 July 2015

How is U-PCLG organised?

• U-PCLG is coordinated by the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) Uganda, with support from the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).

• Funding from the Arcus Foundation• About 30 organisational members to date• Regular group meetings• Regular steering committee meetings• Website• Social media presence (twitter, Facebook)

Uganda PCLG: How did we get here?

Alessandra GiulianiKampala10 July 2015

http://povertyandconservation.info/en/pages/uganda-pclg