The govt of Uganda with the help from World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) have launched the champion initiative district renewable energy strategy that will be used by the Kasese district local govt to implement sustainable energy programmes in the district as one of the ways to protecting and conserving the environment in the areas.
Kasese is one of the most dry areas in Uganda but endowed with a number of natural resources naming, game parks forests among others which are under threat from the population in the areas and in the end resulting into adverse climate change shocks like floods and mud slides.
Now according to the LC5 vice chairperson Kasese district , Muhindo Tadeo, the launched strategy, will help district to empower communities in the promotion of renewable energy sources as well as promote public private partnership in fostering clean energy sources.
However, the acting commissioner, energy resources department in the energy ministry, James Baanabe Isingoma emphasizes the need for the country to use and adopt new sources of renewable energy like solar among others as one of the ways rural communities will now divert from cutting down trees for fuel.
And the executive director WWF, David Duli, sights the need for Uganda to invest more in sustainable energy financing to help facilitate the use of clean energy at grass root level where the common man stays.