Previous Kenyan participants in the Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) program joined forces with the country’s 2023 cohort of IGE fellows to strategize the future trajectory of the esteemed program. Seven…
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…
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…
Eden Seyoum is one of the participants from the first cohort of the Inclusive Green Economy in Practice program. Now, being part of the IGE alumni network, she reflects on her experiences from the…
The theme of the SOCHER 2023 meeting in the city of Valdivia in southern Chile was Territorial Challenges and Sustainability. Several EfD Chile fellow researchers, academics, and alumni from various…
Kenya's energy mix encompasses biomass, oil, electricity, coal, and hydrogen, with coal and hydrogen being less prevalent. Most Kenyan citizens rely on biomass, especially firewood and charcoal, but…