Organizações

The UCSD is a network or more than 40 NGOs dedicated to coordinate advocacy and lobby work around issues and commitments made by world governments towards sustainable development, inspired by the Rio+ 10 project (Civil Society project for preparation of the Johannesburg Summit of 2002).

The UCSD was registered in November 2004 as an NGO (Reg. No. S5914/5345). Since its inception in 2001, UCSD has actively participated in Uganda Civil Society preparations for the Johannesburg Summit on sustainable development;

Roles and Functions of Uganda Land Commission

The 1995 Constitution Art.239 lays out the functions of ULC as to hold and manage any land in Uganda vested in or acquired by Government of Uganda in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and such other functions as may be prescribed by Parliament.

The Land Act, Cap 227 (sec 49) lays out the functions of ULC as follows;

Uganda Landcare Network (ULN) is an association of individuals and institutions committed to the principles, philosophy and practice of Landcare in Uganda. ULN is registered as a trustee to champion Landcare activities nationwide. It is built on the global successes of Landcare including Australia where it was launched close to 30 years ago and has been adopted worldwide by communities and land managers dedicated to sustainable land management.

UKnowledge is a digital collection of unique scholarship created by University of Kentucky faculty, staff, students, departments, research centers, and administration. As a strategic initiative launched by UK Libraries to support multidisciplinary collaboration, UKnowledge is managed by specialists and sustained by dedicated funding. It captures, stores, organizes, and provides open and stable worldwide access to UK’s intellectual capital, and also facilitates reuse of deposited materials to the extent warranted by copyright law or by the licensing terms of the concerned materials.

UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) is a world leader in biodiversity knowledge. It works with scientists and policy makers worldwide to place biodiversity at the heart of environment and development decision-making to enable enlightened choices for people and the planet.

UN Women is the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide.

Training for gender equality is an essential component for UN Women’s commitment to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Vision: To become the leading UN centre that contributes, through training for gender equality, to building a society that respects and promotes human rights for all women and men.

Deforestation and forest degradation account for approximately 11 percent of carbon emissions, more than the entire global transportation sector and second only to the energy sector. It is now clear that in order to constrain the impacts of climate change within limits that society will reasonably be able to tolerate, global average temperatures must be stabilized within two degrees Celsius. This will be practically impossible to achieve without reducing emissions from the forest sector, in addition to other mitigation actions.

A UNAC é um movimento de Camponeses, do sector familiar, que luta pela participação activa dos camponeses no processo de desenvolvimento de Moçambique fundado em 1987 e registada em 1994. As mudanças políticas e económicas que se operaram em 1987 motivaram o surgimento desta movimento

A UNMP iniciou sua articulação em 1989 e consolidou-se a partir do processo de coletas de assinaturas para o primeiro Projeto de Lei de Iniciativa Popular que criou o Sistema, o Fundo e o Conselho Nacional por Moradia Popular no Brasil (Lei 11.124/05). Com esta tarefa os movimentos de moradia do Estado do Paraná, São Paulo e Minas Gerais iniciam com objetivo de articular e mobilizar os movimentos de moradia, lutar pelo direito à moradia, por reforma urbana e autogestão e assim resgatar a esperança do povo rumo a uma sociedade sem exclusão social.

Es función de la UPRA orientar la formulación y ejecución de políticas públicas para la planificación del ordenamiento productivo y de la propiedad rural, con el fin de promover el uso eficiente del suelo para el desarrollo rural agropecuario con enfoque territorial.

UNIDROIT is an intergovernmental, Rome-based organisation specialising in the harmonisa­tion and modernisation of private law rules at the global level, through international treaties and soft law instruments in several areas. UNIDROIT has earned widespread recognition for its activities in the area of contract law, in particular with the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts.