Reviving Batwa Traditions Through Community-Based Climate Action
PELUM Uganda was constituted in 1995 as a network of like-minded Civil Social Organizations working to improve the livelihoods of Smallholder farmers and the sustainability of rural communities (including indigenous peoples) through fostering ecological land use management. In this project, PELUM is working with the Batwa, one of Uganda’s most marginalized Indigenous communities, forcibly evicted from their ancestral forest lands by the government without a planned resettlement. This has forced the Batwa to face deep social and cultural disruption due to climate change, lack of land, and access to production resources, leading to severe non-economic losses, e.g., loss of identity, ancestral ties, and intergenerational knowledge, alongside increasing poverty and exclusion from policy-making processes/spaces.
