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Subsequent to the training in alternative livelihoods (Pig farming and Apiculture), LEAF II Project supplied starter kits to fisher groups in Dei landing site, Pakwach District. The said starter kits were characterized by; pigs and apiculture materials.<\/span><\/p>

For the Apiarists, a fully-fledged model apiary was established during the supply. Beneficiaries total to 144 individuals with 52% women and 8% People with Disabilities. The alternative livelihoods component aims at gradually diversifying the incomes of the Fisher communities while regulating the fishing activity on the lake.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Notably, the LEAF II is a trans boundary project shared between and being implemented at a National level by Country Agencies in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Uganda with financing from the African Development Bank and, is coordinated at the regional level by the Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Program Coordination Unit (NELSAP-CU) in Kigali, Rwanda.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The project\u2019s overall objective is to sustainably increase the lakes\u2019 fish productivity by promoting good fish capture and management practice, restoration of the lakes catchments and improvement of water quality on the shared lakes\u2019 water resources.<\/span><\/p>

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The Multinational Lakes Edward and Albert Integrated Fisheries and Water Resources Management (LEAF II) Project is continuing to implement alternative livelihood programmes in the Lakes Edward and Albert Basin (LEAB) areas.\u00a0 Subsequent to the training in alternative livelihoods (Pig farming and Apiculture), LEAF II Project supplied starter kits to fisher groups in Dei landing site, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4,13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-stories","category-latest-stories","category-sector-stories","category-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4490"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4507,"href":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions\/4507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwscwaterherald.co.ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}