Uganda – PACE – Pan African Conservation Education

“Thank you for making my work easier and impactful”

The Uganda Wildlife Education Centre provide visits, workshops and outreach for schools and communities in the Entebbe area, and from further afield. We are thrilled that access to PACE resources has enabled them to increase their impact. Richard Otiti, Conservation Educator at UWEC, has been organising seminars to help communities live peacefully alongside their wildlife neighbours. "Lugasa School for example neighbours Mabira Forest Reserve. The communities where the school is located are currently struggling with Vervet monkeys. The monkeys destroy crops. [...]

By PACE|2022-11-07T14:38:29+00:00November 7th, 2022|Africa, Competency Based teaching, Conservation, Conservation Education, Conservation Education materials, Environment, ESD, PACE, Teaching conservation, TUSK, Uganda, Uganda Wildlife Education Centre, UgandaWildlifeEducationCentre, Uncategorized, UWEC, Wildlife|0 Comments

Uganda Conservation Foundation
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Uganda Conservation Foundation

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Uganda Conservation Foundation

Uganda Conservation Foundation (UCF) received a consignment of new PACE materials late last year. They were well received by the UCF field team and swiftly shared with their community volunteers, who we are pleased to say were equally positive. Uganda Conservation Foundation has been doing vital work in and around the Murchison Falls National Park in Northern Uganda for nearly two decades. It was the country’s first and very famous national park, home to iconic wildlife, including the rare Rothchild’s giraffe. [...]

By PACE|2021-02-08T15:54:13+00:00February 8th, 2021|Africa, Community, Conservation Education materials, PACE, Teaching conservation, TUSK, Uganda|0 Comments

PACE helping teachers deliver Environment & Sustainability Education across Africa
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PACE helping teachers deliver Environment & Sustainability Education across Africa

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PACE helping teachers deliver Environment & Sustainability Education across Africa

The United Nations Global Sustainable Development Goals set a new direction for education, and to their great credit governments across Africa have engaged the process. Most African governments now expect their schools to address the Education for Sustainable Development frameworks. Education for sustainable development (or Environment & Sustainability Education) is about the content people learn, its relevance, how it’s linked to global challenges and how learners develop competences to address these challenges in a sustainable way. However, adapting new theories, knowledge [...]

By PACE|2020-02-21T23:06:37+00:00September 5th, 2019|Education, Environment, School, Sustainability, Uganda|0 Comments

PACE – sharing ideas between communities in Africa.
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PACE – sharing ideas between communities in Africa.

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PACE – sharing ideas between communities in Africa.

A group of 21 teachers and students from Riverside Secondary School in Seychelles arrived in Uganda 17th August, for an exchange visit with Mutolere Secondary school, Kisoro Region in the east of the country. They shared ideas, on environmental issues and how they use PACE in the Seychelles and in Uganda. Guided by experienced and knowledgable local rangers they visited Mgahinga National Park, home to Mountain Gorillas and other wildlife. They looked at caves, climbed mountains, explored local farms and met [...]

By PACE Comms|2019-06-21T17:22:57+01:00August 29th, 2018|Activities, Education, School, Uganda|0 Comments

Seseme Girls Secondary School in Kisoro, Uganda.
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Seseme Girls Secondary School in Kisoro, Uganda.

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Seseme Girls Secondary School in Kisoro, Uganda.

Members of the Wildlife Club at Seseme Girls Secondary School in Kisoro, Uganda (right) have had a series of four PACE workshops over recent months. They were organised and led by Denis Agaba, the local PACE Champion who works with the Wildlife Clubs of Uganda and the Gorilla Organisation. Denis has covered a range of topics and activities and wanted to share the girl’s feedback. Some extracts below ….. IRANKUNDA MARION explained that “Seseme Girls S.S. Wildlife club is a group [...]

By PACE Comms|2019-06-21T17:10:53+01:00May 25th, 2018|Activities, Conservation, Farming, Uganda|0 Comments

National investment in Conservation Education

Wildlife Clubs of Uganda reactivating School Wildlife clubs across UGANDA Over the last year the Ugandan Ministry of Wildlife, Tourism and Antiquities with the Uganda Wildlife Authority and the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre provided funds to reactivate the Wildlife Clubs of Uganda in districts where they had subsided, and also to further empower Clubs that had remained active. The funding was used for nation-wide out-reach - education talks were given to the students and teachers in school assemblies and signboards were [...]

By PACE Comms|2019-06-06T16:29:27+01:00September 29th, 2017|Conservation, Education, Uganda|0 Comments