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Abayuuti Climate Action Network is a youth-led organisation supporting most affected communities in Uganda to adapt to climate change impacts through a holistic approach focusing on food security, economic empowerment, health and education. They focus on three thematic areas:
1) Livelihood support for climate-displaced people
2) Climate mobility advocacy & community engagement
3) Research on climate resiliency
Abayuuti Climate Action Network began in 2020 doing community cleanups in the slum areas of Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. In the same year, Uganda was hit by floods in various parts of the country and they began organising various relief projects for flood-displaced people. As the year went by, Uganda continued to face severe flooding and tens of thousands of people were being displaced while many people lost lives and property.
In 2021, the organisation was legally registered and they started implementing projects addressing climate mobility issues in Uganda and supporting climate-displaced communities. Since then, Abayuuti Climate Action Network has impacted over 1,000 climate displaced people through their livelihoods projects.
Past projects
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Organised 10 clean-up projects over 3 months in 2020 for various slum neighbourhoods in Kampala, partnering with schools and other ogranisations such as Red Cross Uganda
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Ongoing projects
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Supporting climate-displaced households in the Muhokya Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) Camp to acquire land and produce food for both sustenance and to generate income
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Education
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Operating a school offering free education to over 100 children in Kampala and in the Muhokya IDP Camp
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Climate mobility training: Partnering with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to conduct climate mobility training for youth in Kampala and Kasese
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Livelihoods Development
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Tailoring: Training women and girls in tailoring and sewing skills
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Soap-making: Training displaced people to make locally-made soap
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Support Abayuuti Climate Action Network in meeting their funding needs:
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Paying staff, including salaries for teachers and stipends for volunteers (e.g. skills trainers)
- Refurbishing the school building
- Building a stronger school building structure with a foundation created using cement and settled sand
- Creating an open school field for children to play in
- Renting land to expand the agricultural livelihood project
- Buying more sewing machines to expand the sewing and tailoring livelihood project to allow for the sewing of school uniforms and other larger projects
Support Abayuuti Climate Action Network in meeting their non-financial needs:
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Website development and SEO
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Developing a system to track and manage the organisation's finances
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Developing a Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) strategy and system to track and manage the organisation's impact
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Grant-sourcing and writing
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