This is a second Booster that builds on previous work which have aimed at conservation of the forests in central Uganda. It is also an ambitious plan to nurse the tropical rain forests which were reserved as Lake Victoria catchments back to health and reverse the alarming degradation and deforestation from further harm in central Uganda. Deforestation and degradation pose multiple threats to the forests which African Union of Conservationists (AUC) looks after. This is to bring new, damaging threats to a natural environment already under-pressure. Further to growing forest conservation challenges to its goals. The forests that have been damaged by decades of unsustainable land management, which has seen intensive farming and now to climate change undermine the long-term health of the land. This has led to biodiversity species decline in over the last three decades. This also includes years of habitat destruction and exhausted soils that hardly produce enough for local communities.

Thus the project plans to develop novel innovative ways of managing important forests beginning on small scale by strengthening CFM with adjacent communities, which are good for poor people, economic development and general environment welfare. The project pledges to work with NFA, FSSD and MWE to help look after important landscapes in Lake Victoria catchments to reconnect habitats and bringing back their natural role.

This will be achieved through at least 300 households in forest adjacent communities’ transformation to sustainable management, which will provide dependable incomes from agroforestry and forestry products of at least $1-$4 per household/day. Strengthening the already existing CFM groups ‘that continue to gain full access rights and an estimated 50% of the groups become responsible for SFM. It is estimated that 120ha of degraded forest areas will be restored, contributing to a 0.73% reduction from the current 5% national annual degradation rate. Communities will be empowered through awareness and mentorship of their local leaders.