Twenty civil servants from five East African countries met with 16 EfD researchers over four intense days to share knowledge and experience of policies to increase the use of clean cooking…
Environmental economists and graduate students from Makerere University held a meeting with government officials to identify research and data gaps to address the persistent environmental and natural…
A team from EfD Uganda visited the Ministry of Water and Environment on February 27th, 2024 to share what they had learned on a study tour to Nepal in the fall of 2023. Nepal has been a world leader…
EfD has run an extensive and ambitious program, the Inclusive Green Economy in Practice program, since 2020 in five East African countries. In Uganda over 20 senior public servants from government…
Researchers from EfD Vietnam and Uganda will analyze how fish farmers in those countries perceive risks, in particular climate-related risks, and how they adapt to those risks since they are…
Environmental economists from Makerere University have called on urban authorities to harness the abundant human and organic waste in the cities to produce biogas and organic fertilizers. They argue…
Research fellows and graduate students taking environmental-related courses at Makerere University have been retooled on communicating research findings. The training was part of the EfD-Mak seminar…
An important question for policymakers worldwide is how to make climate and environmental policies acceptable among the populations. A new study sheds light on the preferences in five East African…
EfD organized a study tour to Nepal in November 2023, where researchers and policymakers jointly learned about participatory forest management (PFM). Nepal has been a world leader in this area for…
The SDG 8 Initiative, which is coordinated from the University of Gothenburg, includes several collaborating institutions, among others eight so-called Satellite Universities in low- and middle-income…