

Powering irrigation, enabling processing and strengthening value chains for greater productivity and resilience

📍Location: Kalanamu, Luweero District, Central Uganda
👥Managing Entity : Regenerate Africa + Rapid Advisory Services
⚡Scale: 40 ha demonstration farm
🤝Beneficiaries : ~1,000 households
40 ha demonstration farm for regenerative agriculture practices in Luweero to benefit approximately 1,000 households through sustainable farming methods.

📍Location: Kyankwanzi, Kiboga, Luwero districts.
👥Managing Entity : Citizen Science Initiative (H2020)
⚡Technologies: Renewable energy for agriculture.
🤝Purpose: Identify impacts & scale-up potential
Demonstrated renewable energy applications for agriculture to identify impacts and scale-up potential for RE-PUE integration in rural communities.

📍Location: Karenga & Kitgum Districts, Northern Uganda
👥Managing Entity : African Wildlife Foundation + DADO
⚡Technology: Regenerative Agriculture
🤝Partners : African Wildlife Foundation, DADO
Launching regenerative cotton value chain among smallholder farmers in northern Uganda to promote regenerative agriculture, restore land, and support smallholders.

📍Location: Jinja, Rukungiri, Arua, Lira districts
👥Managing Entity : All in One Women's Association (ALOWA)
⚡Focus: Women's capacity building in RA
🤝Target : Women farmers in 4 districts
RA capacity building among women farmers across 4 districts to improve soil health, biodiversity and resilience through regenerative practices

📍Location:Uganda (national)
👥Managing Entity : Korea Green Growth Trust Fund/WBG
⚡Technology: Climate-smart agriculture + digital tech
🤝Focus : Climate adaptation & mitigation
Grant supporting climate-smart and regenerative agri-food system with digital technology integration for climate adaptation and mitigation.

📍Location:Busoga Sub-region, Eastern Uganda
👥Managing Entity :Agropreneur Initiative + partners
⚡Target: 1,000 female maize farmers
🤝Support : RA training + credit support
RA training and credit support for female smallholder maize farmers in Busoga region to improve adaptation and income through climate-resilient practices.

📍Location: Kyenjojo District, Western Uganda
👥Managing Entity : Urbis Foundation + RUWONET
⚡Target: Solar irrigation systems
🤝Beneficiaries:50 smallholders (mostly women)
Solar irrigation demonstration in Kyenjojo empowering 50 smallholders (mostly women) to increase incomes and make solar energy usable for agriculture.

📍Location: Uganda (various rural off-grid)
👥Managing Entity : New Energy Nexus Uganda
⚡Technologies: Solar pumps, dryers, milling machines
🤝Target: ~21,000 cooperatives
Off-grid energy solutions for agricultural cooperatives including solar pumps, dryers and milling machines to reduce waste and boost incomes.

📍Location: Uganda (national)
👥Managing Entity : New Energy Nexus Uganda
⚡Technologies: Solar pumps, dryers, milling machines
🤝Target: ~21,000 cooperatives
Off-grid energy solutions for agricultural cooperatives including solar pumps, dryers and milling machines to reduce waste and boost incomes.

📍Location: Uganda (6 sites)
👥Managing Entity : Mandulis Energy + Verst Carbon
⚡Technologies: Biomass gasification, biochar
🤝Target: Clean energy production + rural livelihoods
Biomass gasification combined with biochar production and electricity generation to improve rural livelihoods and provide clean energy across 6 sites.

📍Location: South-western Uganda
👥Managing Entity : FRES Uganda + SNV
⚡Technologies: Solar-powered milk chillers
🤝Beneficiaries: 60 farmers + 206 businesses
Solar cooling systems for dairy farmers with additional support for small businesses to reduce spoilage and improve processing in South-western Uganda.

📍Location: Mukono District (Kiwumu & Nyenge)
👥Managing Entity : Power for All + utility pilot.
⚡Technologies: Appliance financing + off-grid DRE
🤝Beneficiaries: Increase business revenues >70%.
Appliance financing combined with off-grid DRE for productive use in rural businesses to increase revenues through PUE asset deployment.

📍Location: Uganda (national)
👥Managing Entity : CREEC + partners
⚡Focus: RA-PURE mapping & analysis
🤝Goal: Build resilient food systems powered by RE
RA-PURE mapping initiative to identify energy-agriculture nexus opportunities and build resilient food systems powered by renewable energy.

📍Location: Uganda (various rural)
👥Managing Entity : EnGreen + Green Powered Technology
⚡Technologies: Solar pumps & modern agri-tools
🤝Beneficiaries: Cooperative-based PUE adoption
PUE adoption in agricultural cooperatives through solar pumps and modern agricultural tools to improve livelihoods in rural communities.

📍Location: Uganda (national)
👥Managing Entity : Government of Uganda / UECCC
⚡Support: Credit financing & subsidy scheme
🤝Focusl: Water-pumping, irrigation, cooling RETs
Credit financing for PUE companies and subsidy scheme for water-pumping, irrigation and cooling renewable energy technologies to make them more affordable.

📍Location: Elgon Region (Kapchorwa, Kween, Bukwo)
👥Managing Entity : AidEnvironment
⚡Focus: RA + value-chain restoration in coffee
🤝Focusl: Restore land, boost productivity, engage youth
Regenerative agriculture and value-chain restoration in coffee-growing regions of Elgon to restore degraded land and engage youth in sustainable farming.

📍Location: South-western Uganda
👥Managing Entity : FRES Uganda + EEP Grant
⚡Technology: Minigrids for milk cooling
🤝Purpose: Reduce spoilage, scale PUE for agri-business
Minigrid project for dairy cooperatives providing milk cooling and local power connections to reduce spoilage and scale PUE for agricultural businesses

📍Location: Kiboga & Dwaniro regions
👥Managing Entity : Heifer International + Aqua For All
⚡Technology: Solar-powered water supply systems
🤝Beneficiaries: ~15,000 dairy farmers
Solar-powered water supply and milk logistics solution including boreholes, solar pumps and overhead tanks linked to dairy cooperatives.

📍Location: Busoga sub-region (11 districts)
📅Duration : 2023-2029
⚡Value Chains: Poultry, horticulture, dairy, oilseed
🤝Beneficiaries: ~250,000 youth, especially women
Large-scale agribusiness youth employment project covering multiple value chains to empower youth through skills, finance and market access.

📍Location: Multiple dairy centres, Uganda
👥Managing Entity : Heifer International Uganda
⚡Technology: Solar PV systems for milk chilling
🤝Funding: Powering Renewable Energy Opportunities
Solar PV systems for milk chilling centers at dairy cooperatives to reduce diesel costs and post-harvest losses while increasing farmer incomes.

📍Location: 17 districts in Uganda
👥Managing Entity : Microfinance Support Centre + partners
⚡Components: Value chain dev, microfinance, water accessg
🤝Target: 2.3 million people (51% women)
Multi-sector project covering value chain development, microfinance, and water access to stimulate sustainable economic growth across 17 districts.

📍Location: Kibale District
👥Managing Entity : Microfinance Support Centre + Catholic Church
⚡Focus: Piggery demonstration farm
🤝Purpose: Practical training & livelihood improvement
Piggery demonstration farm in Kibale District for practical training and livelihood improvement among rural households through sustainable livestock farming.

📍Location: Uganda (nationwide)
👥Managing Entity : Microfinance Support Centre
⚡Inputs: Seeds, seedlings, spray pumps, irrigation tools
🤝Purpose: Practical training & livelihood improvement
Financing product for agro-inputs including seeds, seedlings, spray pumps, irrigation tools and fertilizers for farmer groups and SMEs.

📍Location: 81 districts across Uganda
👥Managing Entity : MAAIF + IFAD + partners
⚡Scope: Oilseed sector transformation
🤝Infrastructure: 2,500 km rural road rehabilitation
Transform oilseed sector through improved market access and rehabilitation of 2,500 km of rural roads to link farmers to markets across 81 districts.

📍Location: Uganda (selected value chains)
👥Managing Entity : MAAIF + NARO + UNMA
⚡Focus: Climate-smart agriculture technologies
🤝Goal: Increase resilience & productivity
Adoption of climate-smart agriculture technologies and practices to improve productivity and resilience in selected agricultural value chains.

📍Location: Uganda (national)
👥Managing Entity : MAAIF + Ministries of Health & Education
⚡Focus: Agriculture, nutrition, education integration
🤝Funding: GAFSP/World Bank
Multi-sector project integrating agriculture, nutrition, and education to improve food security and nutrition through value chain support.

📍Location: Uganda (nationwide scaling)
👥Managing Entity : Heifer International + Hello Tractor
⚡Technology: Digital booking platform + PAYG tractors
🤝Target: ~70,000 smallholder farmers
Access to mechanisation via PAYG tractors and digital booking platform to improve on-farm productivity for smallholder farmers nationwide.

📍Location: 9 districts in Lango & Busoga
👥Managing Entity : GOAL Uganda + partners
⚡Focust: Sustainable land use, inputs, finance & markets
🤝Target: 200,000 smallholders
Improve sustainable land use, inputs, finance and market access for 200,000 smallholders across 9 districts in Lango and Busoga sub-regions.

📍Location: Karenga & Kitgum Districts
👥Managing Entity : African Wildlife Foundation + DADO
⚡Scope: ~32,000 ha degraded land restoration
🤝Target: Cotton value chain + land restoration
Promote regenerative agriculture in cotton value chain and restore approximately 32,000 ha of degraded land in Northern Uganda.
Land Restoration

📍Location: 6 districts in Central & Eastern Uganda
👥Managing Entity : African Wildlife Foundation + DADO
⚡Target: Coffee farming resilience & agro-forestry
🤝Practices: RA practices integration
Enhance small-scale coffee farming resilience through agro-forestry and integration of regenerative agriculture practices across 6 districts.

📍Location: Kassanda district & other rural areas
👥Managing Entity : Youth Initiative for Community Empowerment
⚡Focus: Smallholder RA training
Smallholder regenerative agriculture training including water harvesting and organic fertilizer production for community empowerment.

📍Location: Nationwide smallholder farms
👥Managing Entity : Nexus Green Ltd + MWE
⚡Scale: ~4,000 systems installed
🤝Support: Subsidies for small-scale solar irrigation
Government subsidy program for small-scale solar-powered irrigation systems with approximately 4,000 systems installed nationwide.

📍Location: Paicho Sub-county, Gulu District
👥Managing Entity : Kimora Greengrow Farm
⚡Focus: Youth-led regenerative vegetable farming
🤝Activities: Seedling supply & training for smallholders
Youth-led regenerative vegetable farming and seedling supply training for smallholders in Northern Uganda to promote sustainable agriculture.

📍Location: Multi-district, Uganda
👥Managing Entity : Uganda Ministry of Trade, Industry & Cooperatives
⚡Scale: 40,000 ha degraded land restoration
🤝Target: 60,000 smallholders
Restore 40,000 ha of degraded land with 60,000 smallholders while building market linkages for improved agricultural livelihoods.

📍Location: Nakivale Refugee Settlement
👥Managing Entity : Unidos Social Innovation Centre
⚡Focus: Soil-health training & demonstration
🤝Context: Refugee settlement agriculture
Soil-health training and demonstration in refugee settlement context to promote regenerative agriculture practices among displaced populations.

📍Location:Uganda (nationwide programme)
👥Managing Entity : Sasakawa Africa Association
⚡Training: ISFM, agro-forestry, conservation agriculture
🤝Focus: Extension training for smallholders
Extension training in Integrated Soil Fertility Management, agro-forestry, and conservation agriculture for smallholder farmers nationwide.

📍Location: Initial 12 districts, Uganda
👥Managing Entity : Grainpulse (IFC/GAFSP supported)
⚡Focus: Fertilizer blending factory + input supply
🤝Focus: ~200,000 farmers
Fertilizer blending factory establishment and smallholder input supply services to approximately 200,000 farmers across Uganda.
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Objective:
The objective is to identify effective and efficient mechanisms for development of the renewable energy sector through technical skills expertise transfer and discourse in Uganda in general, and among the communities of practice in particular.
Output:
RE Technical skills Capacity, and Communities of Practice in place Strengthened.
Training, Research and Functional national think tanks on RE development and productive use of energy developed.
Objective:
The major objective is to strengthen renewable energy technological developments, deployment and transfer in Uganda. This will be through enhanced innovation and development of renewable energy technologies, piloting and transfer of more effective innovations in the renewable energy arena. The thematic group will promote latest technology, developing market linkages and commercialization
Output:
Renewable Energy Technology and Innovation development, transfer and deployment, development of market linkages strengthened in Uganda.
Increased adoption and deployment of renewable energy technologies among communities of practice, private sector, and across all consumer entities. Increased Market development and commercialization of contemporary technologies.