Youth Concern on Environment and Development (YCED), is a community based Organization in Ntungamo district south western Uganda, YCED is a member organization of the Environmental human right defenders (EHRDS) under the environment and climate thematic working group of the national coalition of human right defenders (NCHRD) but also a member of civil society coalition on oil and gas (CSCO) ,these organizations have enabled us build our capacity in area of advocacy and policy influencing especially to us the grass root Organization

We do advocacy work on Environmental and climate justice and upholding human rights awareness among the grassroots citizens, but also making sure that the project affected persons (PAPS) for both East African Crude Oil Pipeline, Tilenga and Kingfisher projects get justices and that the natural resources (oil &gas ) are sustainably utilized i.e. to benefit the current and the future generations but also have respect for environment and human rights, We also do work in tin mining in Ntungamo district where basic rights are neglected…