A Rocha Uganda

Description

A Rocha Uganda is among the eleven organisations that came together to mobilise, share and use biodiversity data across four African countries to help with the conservation of four forested African landscapes. The initiative is through the regional Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) grant under the project of Raising the profile of data for the conservation of four forested landscapes (Project ID: BID- AF2020-140-REG).Through access to and optimal use of data, this project seeks to protect the important forests of each landscape notably Atewa forest (Ghana), the forests of the Kwande and Oban-Liku (Nigeria), West Bugwe (Uganda) and the coastal forests and kayas of Kenya which are all, at least in part, of international conservation importance.The project’s main activities are;-Trainings in data mobilisation, data collection, and putting data to use.-Data mobilisation.-Putting data to use.The eleven organizations have over 130,000 records to digitise from 55 different data sets. A Rocha Uganda has eight datasets comprising of 17,390 records (13%), to be mobilized and digitized on the GBIF Portal.

Contacts

ADMINISTRATIVE_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Sara Kaweesa
Telephone: +256 778811785
email: sara.kaweesa@arocha.org

TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Adrine Musiime
Telephone: +256 772 579359
email: adrine.musiime@arocha.org

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Alexander Mbiro
Telephone: +256 783 282622
email: alexander.mbiro@arocha.org

A Rocha Uganda
Gayaza-Kyetume, P.O. Box 11569, Kampala, Uganda
Kampala
041
Central Uganda
UG
email: uganda@arocha.org