Abayuuti Climate Action Network

‍Abayuuti Climate Action Network is a youth-led organisation supporting most affected communities in Uganda to adapt to climate change impacts through a holistic approach focusing on food security, economic empowerment, health and education. They focus on three thematic areas:

Livelihood support for climate-displaced people
Climate mobility advocacy & community engagement
Research on climate resiliency

Abayuuti's story

Abayuuti Climate Action Network (ACAN) began in 2020 doing community cleanups in the slum areas of Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. In the same year, Uganda was hit by floods in various parts of the country and they began organising various relief projects for flood-displaced people. As the year went by, Uganda continued to face severe flooding and tens of thousands of people were being displaced while many people lost lives and property.

In 2021, the organisation was legally registered and they started implementing projects addressing climate mobility issues in Uganda and supporting climate-displaced communities. Since then, Abayuuti Climate Action Network has impacted over 1,000 climate displaced people through their livelihoods projects.

What they do

Community cleanups

Organised 10 clean-up projects over 3 months in 2020 for various slum neighbourhoods in Kampala, partnering with schools and other organisations such as Red Cross Uganda

Farming

Supporting climate-displaced households in the Muhokya Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) Camp to acquire land and produce food for both sustenance and to generate income

Education

Operating a school offering free education to over 100 children in Kampala and in the Muhokya IDP Camp
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Climate mobility training: Partnering with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to conduct climate mobility training for youth in Kampala and Kasese

Livelihoods development

Tailoring: Training women and girls in tailoring and sewing skills
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Soap-making: Training displaced people to make locally-made soap

Supporter donations have enabled ACAN to:

Pay staff, including salaries for teachers and stipends for volunteers (e.g. skills trainers)
Refurbish the school building
- Build a stronger school building structure with a foundation created using cement and settled sand
- Create an open and even school field for children to play in
Rent land to expand their agricultural livelihood project
Buying more sewing machines to expand the sewing and tailoring livelihood project to allow for the sewing of school uniforms and other larger projects

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