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Inter-Institutional Collaboration

Strategic institutional partnerships that expand AVA capacity, seedling production, and regional impact.

Ongoing2025

Collaboration with Caritas Fort Portal

Seedling production partnership

AVA signed an MoU with Caritas Fort Portal to produce indigenous and fruit seedlings under the Restore Africa framework.

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Ongoing2025

Collaboration with CIFOR-ICRAF

Restore Africa partnership

AVA hosts a Rural Resource Centre and supports major seedling production targets for regional land restoration.

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Project Category

Kamwenge District

Community biodiversity restoration, research, youth skilling, and ecological resilience programmes led in Kamwenge District.

Ongoing2021

Collaborating with PHARMBIOTRAC of Mbarara University of Science and Technology

Traditional medicine collaboration

AVA co-organised medicinal herbs training and supported formation of the TAMBIRA AMAGARA group.

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Ongoing2025

Collaborating with Uganda Rural Development Training Institute (URDT-I) to train youths

Youth skills development partnership

AVA oversaw practical youth training across multiple trades and agribusiness pathways in Kamwenge.

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Ongoing2019

Development Response to Displacement Impact (DRDIP) Project

Development Response to Displacement Impact (DRDIP) Project

AVA mobilised communities on around eight acres of land, grew vegetables and watermelons, and set up a simple irrigation scheme under the World Bank funded DRDIP programme.

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Ongoing research legacy2019

Promoting coexistence between humans and plant biodiversity

Promoting coexistence between humans and plant biodiversity

Research project implemented in seven villages bordering Kibale National Park to promote coexistence between humans and plant biodiversity, document species status, and establish a nursery bed.

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Kikuube District

Forest restoration, indigenous seedling distribution, and conservation partnerships serving communities in Kikuube District.

Ended2021

Collaboration with NFA to restore part of Bugoma Central Forest Reserve (CFR)

Bugoma restoration initiative

AVA restored 111.8 hectares of degraded forestland and distributed over 17,000 seedlings to families in villages bordering Bugoma CFR.

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Completed core phase2022

Planting indigenous species on private land

Private land restoration initiative

AVA planted 4,506 seedlings on private land in Butoole Parish under a biodiversity restoration and conservation project.

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