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Where the work takes root

Thirteen projects across Uganda, South Sudan, Tanzania and online. Each one is a practical route to food security, livelihoods and climate resilience.

13 projects
5 programme areas
3 countries, and online

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Food Security and Climate-Resilient Agriculture

When the rains become unreliable, the first loss may be a crop. We help farmers and families grow food more reliably through demonstration gardens and practical training, from composting and drought-tolerant crops to irrigation, poultry and beekeeping.

4 projects About this programme

Women laughing as a BetterLife trainer teaches beside their sack gardens in Yumbe

Yumbe, Uganda Watch the film 8 minutes

Featured project

Women’s Climate Resilience in Yumbe

Before training began, we spoke with 100 women in Yumbe about how climate pressure was changing their lives. Their answers shaped local-language training, demonstration gardens, seedlings and simple digital tools for refugee, displaced and host-community women.

22% → 92%Knowledge of climate-smart agriculture
72%Adopted sack or box gardening
63%Took up composting
35%Average reduction in household spending on vegetables

With Foundation S, The Sanofi Collective

Signing the board at the launch of the Women’s Action Circle model in 12 districts

12 districts, Uganda

Green Leaf Platforms Uganda

Model launched in 2026

With Farm Radio International, we connect radio and digital farming content to Women’s Action Circles across 12 districts, so women can discuss what they hear, visit demonstration plots and test practices together in groups they already trust.

With Farm Radio International

Solar-powered irrigation above a maize crop at a BetterLife-supported site in Yumbe, Uganda

South Sudan

BetterLife SPRING

In South Sudan, rainfall is becoming harder to predict. BetterLife SPRING combines solar-powered irrigation with training in soil health, crop planning and water management, so farmers, refugees and displaced families can produce more reliably through dry periods.

Rukungiri, Uganda

BetterLife Agro Tourism Farm

BetterLife’s working demonstration farm and market link. Farmers learn through solar-powered irrigation, greenhouse farming, beekeeping, dairy and livestock, then have a route to supply produce through BetterLife Agro Tourism Farm Ltd.

RISE: Resilience through Inclusive Skills and Enterprise

Learning a trade is one step. Finding tools, capital and customers is another. We pair practical skills, from tailoring and carpentry to poultry and solar technology, with savings groups, enterprise coaching, finance and routes to market.

1 project About this programme

A young man refilling a drinker in a poultry house in Yumbe, Uganda

RISE

RISE brings refugees and host-community members into the same training groups and local economy. Participants learn practical trades, then receive mentorship, business support, market connections and access to small loans, building relationships as they train, save and trade together.

78%Moved into sustainable income pathways
85%Reported improved refugee-host relations
40%Fall in food insecurity

Climate Education and Youth Leadership

Young people will live longest with today’s climate decisions. Through Green Libraries, Eco Labs, school clubs, youth centres, Climate Academies and innovation challenges, they gain the knowledge and confidence to take part in those decisions.

5 projects About this programme

A facilitator leading a school climate club session

Schools in Uganda

Green Libraries, Eco Labs and School Climate Clubs

Green Libraries and Eco Labs give learners books, digital resources and practical environmental activities, from school gardens and tree planting to plastic banks, debates and public speaking. More than 4,500 students have taken part.

4,500+Students engaged through school climate education
20+Green Libraries and Eco Labs supported

Alebtong, Uganda

Apala One Stop Youth Centre

Opened December 2023

In Alebtong, the Apala One Stop Youth Centre gives young people a place to read, use computers, learn digital skills, develop ideas and build peace. It opened in December 2023, with support from COMESA, Save the Children and Uganda’s National Youth Council, with ten computers and more than 3,000 books.

20Young people trained to manage the hub
10Computers when the centre opened
3,000+Books
~400Young people the centre has space to serve

With COMESA, Save the Children and Uganda’s National Youth Council

Two men holding seedlings in a greenhouse tree nursery in Karagwe

Karagwe, Tanzania

Climate Education and Youth Enterprise in Tanzania

Together with FADECO in Karagwe, we use schools, community radio and practical training to reach young people in Tanzania, from Eco Clubs and climate-smart agriculture to reusable sanitary-pad production and liquid soap-making.

8,000+Trees planted
30,000+People reached through FADECO Radio
25+Young entrepreneurs trained in climate-smart and green business

With FADECO, with support from AllPeopleBeHappy

BetterLife’s vision and mission banner beside a virtual session at LCOY 2026

Virtual, Uganda and across Africa

BetterLife Climate Leadership Academy

A virtual academy, supported by Moonshot, that helps young Africans understand climate negotiations, from adaptation and climate finance to loss and damage, and connect them to what is happening in their own communities.

With Moonshot

Tech Camp participants building a robotics prototype

Lira, Uganda

Climate Innovation Hackathons and Tech Camp

Kakebe Tech Camp 2025: 5 to 19 January

With KaKebe Technologies, a youth-led tech company in Lira, we work on climate innovation hackathons and the Kakebe Tech Camp, where young people learn robotics, AI and software and build climate and eco solutions. Camp 2025 trained 257 young people from across East Africa.

257Young people trained at Kakebe Tech Camp 2025

With KaKebe Technologies

Clean Energy, Water and Restoration

Energy poverty, water insecurity and environmental loss often sit inside the same household. We work with communities on tree nurseries, clean cooking and biogas, briquettes, waste recovery and water access, easing pressure on families and the land at the same time.

1 project About this programme

BetterLife team members with students at clean cooking stoves during a school cook-off

Uganda

BetterLife Renewable Pathways

We work on clean cooking in schools and refugee communities, including biogas, and on waste separation, plastic banks, recycling and reuse. More than 48 household biogas systems turn organic waste into cleaner cooking energy, and four school plastic banks help keep plastics out of the environment.

48+Household biogas systems supported
4School plastic banks

Digital Tools for Farmers

Technology is useful when it shortens the distance between a farmer and a good decision. Soilla and Agribusiness Connekt bring soil advice, climate information, finance and buyers closer, always paired with face-to-face support.

2 projects About this programme

Soil falling from a farmer’s hand in Rukungiri

In use in Uganda

Soilla

Launched 2023

Our digital agricultural advisory platform gives farmers soil and crop guidance, climate information, market prices and agricultural services. It is paired with field training, because a phone and data alone do not make a tool useful.

With World Food Programme (engagement on farmer information and data)

In use in Uganda

Agribusiness Connekt

Work continuing in 2026

Agribusiness Connekt links farmers and small agricultural enterprises to buyers, finance, services and market information, giving producers trained through BetterLife programmes a route from production into longer-term enterprise.

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