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🌟Efforts towards ecosystem strengthening are front and center as we kick off the "Strategies for Community Mobilization through Participatory Approaches and Local Advocacy" forum at Protea Hotel, Kololo - Kampala. This capacity-strengthening initiative is focused on unlocking domestic resources, fueling the rise of empowered, community-driven change. We're starting strong and setting the stage for revolutionary action!
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Happy #InternationalYouthDay2024
Today, we celebrate the energy, creativity, and resilience of young people around the world. Together, we can build a brighter, more inclusive future for all.
Let's empower youth to lead the way! 💪
#YouthDay2024
#EmpowerYouth
Our Country Advisory team we treasure your wisdom
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For this week’s FRI Uganda staff profile, we introduce Annet Ade, who first joined @farmradio in 2022!
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We’d like to once more thank all broadcasters & other stakeholders who joined FRI Uganda last week in Kampala for our platforms project value chain workshop for #GreenLeaf
Stay tuned as we reunite in September for our Experience Capitalization Workshop!
#RegenerativeAgriculture
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The Power of Timely and Accurate Information!
In farming, having access to up-to-date and precise information can make all the difference in boosting yields and improving production quality. Unfortunately, many women smallholder farmers miss out on innovative techniques just
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Zalwango Proscovia, Senior Agriculture Officer for Mukono District, outlines regenerative practices that stakeholders are brainstorming for #GreenLeaf programs.
Options include:
• Mulching
• Organic manure
• Intercropping
• Agroforestry
• Water harvesting
• Erosion control
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Broadcasters from 12 stations across Uganda collaborate on platforms project content for #GreenLeaf value chain enterprises.
In four groups, they each discuss a different crop:
• Brown rice 🍚
• Hass avocado 🥑
• Goat rearing 🐐
• Horticulture 🪴
#RegenerativeAgriculture
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Special thanks to all broadcasters, local
government representatives, hub focal persons & other stakeholders for a successful Day 1 of discussing regenerative farming, gender equality & #GreenLeaf programming 🌱
#RegenerativeAgriculture #GenderInclusion
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FRI Uganda’s Ecaat Stephen kicks things off at a platform project design workshop with broadcasters of 12 radio stations from across different parts of the country.
Participants discuss target crops, extension services & gender inclusion.
#RegenerativeAgriculture #GreenLeaf
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#GreenLeaf listeners were 20% likelier to add regenerative agriculture the last year, Ecaat Stephen says.
Crops with most growth include coffee, banana & maize.
Experience Capitalization Workshops in September will identify expenses, revenues & stakeholders for future programs.
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Highlights from the project lead on the Nature-based Solutions (NbS) project, following the design workshop.
#NaturebasedSolutions
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We appreciate the opportunity to learn from the team and participants.
Radio documentary is such an amazing venture and also a perfect means to reach our rural communities who have more access to radio than any other platforms.
We look forward to more collaboration 💪
Welcome to day two of the NBS Min-PRC design workshop. Today,we'll explore nature-based solutions from across three regions - Buganda, Teso, and Lango #ClimateAction @farmradio @Ecaats @Pmweruka81 @simbaradio @voice_of_teso @Voiceoflangofm @treesforlifeug
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Day 3 of the NBS Min-PRC Design workshop has begun. Today groups from three different regions are creating story boards for #naturebasedsolution documentaries.
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FRI Uganda meets with a dozen Ministry of Gender, Labour & Social Development @Mglsd_UG representatives to brainstorm redistributing unpaid household work in rural communities, in the wake of FRI’s eight weeks of on-air dialogues about unpaid care #WomenEmpowerment
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Angela Nakafeero, Gender & Women Affairs Commissioner for @Mglsd_UG, says addressing #unpaidcare is a priority for Uganda’s 4th National Development Plan.
Participants gave ideas like energy-saving cooking tools, more childcare centres & positive masculinity #WomenEmpowerment
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FRI Uganda & @Mglsd_UG end the day with +20 action items for #unpaidcare, including:
• Flexible work hours for women
• Longer maternity leave
• Minimum wage for maids
• Ministry database for unpaid care
• Engagement of cultural/religious leaders
Thanks to all who joined!
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Trees for Life founder @Jessica_Aanyu during the second day of the #naturebasedsolutions broadcaster workshop. Providing helpful insight on how to approach telling stories on tree planting initiatives.
#treesforlife #environmentalsolutions
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Welcome to day two of the NBS Min-PRC design workshop. Today,we'll explore nature-based solutions from across three regions - Buganda, Teso, and Lango #ClimateAction @farmradio @Ecaats @Pmweruka81 @simbaradio @voice_of_teso @Voiceoflangofm @treesforlifeug
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FRI Uganda volunteers & Amayiko Martin of @simbaradio interview the community of Ggingo, Mityana District, Central Uganda, about a project that’s replanted 100 acres of the Mukambwe Forest Reserve. One resident rapped a song in Luganda about protecting trees 🗣️🌿 #natureanswers
