ECOTRUST: Built for resilience

Green Exclusives | Episode 2 — Built for Resilience: ECOTRUST’s 27-Year Journey of Turning Nature into Opportunity In this episode of Green Exclusives, Environmental Journalist and host Joshua Kagoro sits down with Pauline Nantongo Kalunda, Executive Director of the Environmental Conservation Trust of Uganda (ECOTRUST), as the organisation celebrates 27 years of advancing community-led conservation in Uganda. From its beginnings as a USAID grants management unit to becoming one of Uganda’s leading conservation organisations, ECOTRUST has spent nearly three decades demonstrating how nature conservation can create tangible social and economic opportunities for communities. The conversation explores ECOTRUST’s journey, its work with more than 54,000 smallholder households across five landscapes, restoration and improved management of more than 70,000 hectares, conservation finance, biodiversity credits, and its ambition to reach 16.5 million people while restoring an additional 60,000 hectares over the next five years. Pauline Nantongo Kalunda reflects on the organisation’s evolution, the importance of innovation and partnerships, and the lessons ECOTRUST has learned from 27 years of putting communities at the centre of conservation. Hosted by: Joshua Kagoro Guest: Pauline Nantongo Kalunda, Executive Director, ECOTRUST Programme: Green Exclusives Episode: 2 Subcribe, watch, share, and join the conversation on the future of conservation, climate action, and sustainable development in Uganda. #GreenExclusives #ECOTRUST #Conservation #Uganda #ClimateAction #NatureBasedSolutions #ConservationFinance #Biodiversity #SustainableDevelopment #JoshuaKagoro