Civil society statement on EACOP financing, 27th March-2025
Yesterday (March 26, 2025), the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) Company informed the public that five banks are set to provide the first tranche of financing needed for the ...
Policy brief: Covid-19, indigenous Batwa’s rights, the Bwindi conservation landscape: Gaps, impacts and responses.
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, calls have been made for continuing analyses of its impacts on and dynamics among the world’s most of the groups at heightened risk for ...
Effects of climate change on women’s land rights & livelihoods
Climate change presents a considerable threat women’s Land rights and Livelihoods. Women’s vulnerability to climate change has implications on agro based livelihoods, especially the rural populace like Amuru. Evidently Climate ...
Joint CSO Statement on FID
The Ugandan government, alongside TotalEnergies (U) B.V. and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) (U) Ltd announced the Final Investment Decision (FID) for the Lake Albert oil project yesterday on ...
Gender Inequality Policy Brief
Men verses Women: Climate Change Deepening Gender Inequality in Amuru Climate change effects are creating pressure on human livelihoods and more so on women and children who are bearing the ...
CSO statement on Uganda’s oil exploitation-and climate change ambitions
1. Introduction Recently, government agencies led by the Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAU) have published media articles through which they have made a case for Uganda’s oil and gas exploitation ...
CSO rebuttal to President Museveni’s Telegraph article
Dear Mr. President, CSO OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT: YOUR TELEGRAPH ARTICLE UNDERMINES THE CLIMATE CHANGE FIGHT AND ENDANGERS UGANDANS 1. Your Excellency, on May 2, 2022, you published a ...
CSO Letter to the Islamic Development Bank
We, the undersigned environmental and human rights civil society groups working to promote environmental conversation, human rights observance, and a just energy transition in Uganda, Africa, and our global allies, ...
CSO communique on Kingfisher drilling launch
1. INTRODUCTION Today, Uganda’s president, H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, is expected to officiate at a ceremony during which drilling for the Kingfisher oil project will be launched. Commercial oil production ...
Cross border CSO letter to Barclays Bank over EACOP report
Dear Mr. Venkatakrishnan, We would like to draw your attention to the attempt of Barclays’ research department to whitewash one of the world’s most controversial oil projects: the East African ...
Briefing paper Risks and prospects of Uganda
Fifteen (15) years after commercial oil reserves were confirmed in the Albertine Basin, Uganda still has high hopes for a profitable oil industry that will unlock the country’s potential. A ...
AIFE Uganda Statement on EACOP Oil agreements Uganda
1. Introduction African Initiative on Food Security and Environment (AIFE-Uganda) and wishes to register its concernsover the signing of three agreements for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project ...