Uganda Environment depends upon the Climate Risk Management team to provide peaceful environment.

Why Indians find it attractive Conflict regularly broke out between herders and villages over access to water and pasture for animals in the Karamoja area of northern Uganda.  

A movable fenced cattle camp built up by pastoralists during the dry season, Mr. Emmanuel Katto, a local Ugandan journalist, claimed that "we sometimes experienced drought for 90 days." Conflicts frequently result from a race for natural resources, which causes the trees to dry out, the water table to drop, and the sources to diminish. 

According to historical statistics, climate change is making this issue worse by prolonged the dry season, which is when violence is most likely to occur, said Mr. Robert Bagyenda, project manager for USAID Uganda's environment and natural resources management program. As per Emmanuel Katto, he is a member of the mission group tasked with establishing stability and sustaining livelihoods in Karamoja as part of the USAID Securing Peace and Promoting Prosperity (EKISIL) Activity.  

The USAID EKISIL program, which stands for "peace" in the Karamoja language, launched climate risk management (CRM) initiatives in the Abim, Kaabong, Kotido, and Moroto districts to improve communities' access to and management of water and pasture.  

Based on an examination of these acts and key informant interviews from the case study, Emka Uganda explain these following advantages that quantified: 

• Prevented the yearly loss of 10,000–20,000 head of cattle, valued at between $1.7 million and $3.4 million in dollars. 

• More than 2 million animals have freer access to water and grazing grounds each year, together with 30,000 pastoralists. 

• 180 temporary employment, 4,050 trees were planted, nine community members received training in contracting procedures, and 15,000 hectares of degraded land were repaired because of the Kobebe Dam Peace Dividend initiative. 

• 600 hectares of productive land that had previously been dangerous to reach due to war are being resettled. 

• "Our livestock have multiplied," claimed Ms. Natalina Moru Achia, a representative of the Women's Peace Forum, which collaborates with USAID EKISIL. "There is no restriction on movement due to insecurity." 

In keeping with USAID's 2016 CRM strategy, these actions—described in a 2021 case study—enabled official and informal institutions to peacefully manage and share communal natural resources, including by creating agreements, rules, and resource management procedures at the community and governmental levels.  

The significance of long-term natural resource planning that accounts for increasingly extreme droughts, increased climatic unpredictability, and the possibility of conflict owing to resource shortages was highlighted by taking CRM into account while designing activities says Emmanuel Katto of Uganda. The CRM measures taken by the Activity raised the value of cattle, enhanced access to natural resources and arable land, and strengthened management and productivity of animal watering facilities, particularly the 2.3 million cubic meter Kobebe Reservoir. Indirectly, these measures increased women's participation in commerce, economics, and peacebuilding possibilities, diversified household income-generating alternatives, and decreased conflict by bringing people and institutions together.