Music festivals offer a unique opportunity to identify and promote community-driven initiatives while avoiding common policymaking pitfalls.

Please note that this project requires considerable physical ability to complete. We have designed the building to require the minimum level of skill and equipment while also maintaining a safe working environment for all involved.

Educate and sensitize the waste generators about the impacts of their waste on the environment and its livability as well as what they can do or change to achieve the sustainable development goal of their community.

The University of Colorado, Colorado Springs team was tasked with creating a food storage facility for the Entusi Resort and Retreat Center operated by Global Livingston Institute located in the Lake Bunyonyi region of Uganda.

Agriculture employs nearly seventy percent of the workforce in Uganda, but many farmers lose up to forty percent of their harvest due to improper food storage practices.

The Entusi model farm, located in the Lake Bunyonyi area of Southwestern Uganda, serves as an outdoor, hands-on classroom for local farmers to learn new farming techniques and practices.

The project goal is to provide a sustainable energy solution for smallholder farmers surrounding Lake Bunyonyi in rural Uganda. The project focused on a sustainable, environmentally friendly, and reliable solution to provide villagers with access to electricity for phone charging and lighting.

World Down Syndrome Day was celebrated all over the world on the 21st March, 2019. Although not the first time in Uganda, it was the first time a staggering 380 people were in attendance, 180 more than initially anticipated.

New HIV infections in Uganda rose 21% between 2003-2013. Since 2014, Global Livingston Institute works with community partners to produce the "iKnow" Concert Series in rural Uganda. This annual, free concert series brings musicians/celebrities to stress that people can live long, healthy lives while being HIV-positive, aiming to decrease stigma.

The Global Livingston Institute partners with local organizations in Uganda and Rwanda to provide free health services such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) testing, cancer screening, and family planning counseling to residents during the iKnow Concert Series and the Tour du Rwanda Concert Series.

Through observational research, surveys conducted at the Rutinda market both before and upon arrival, and interviews with villagers, vendors, the Entusi staff, and Ugandan businessmen and businesswomen, the DMBA team gathered diverse perspectives and a considerable amount of information to digest.

Livelihood approaches have been the mainstay of FCS community reintegration programs (Beard, 2014). These interventions take into account “social ecology” and equip the FCS with subsistence resources and skills beyond psychosocial intervention.

New Faces New Voices, an advocacy group that focuses on getting women involved in the financial sector in Africa summed up some of the effects of social impact investing on women specifically. The report stated that “women-owned businesses in Africa are growing at a faster rate than women-owned businesses worldwide.”

The purpose of this project was to interact with community members in East Africa to discern problems facing the community and how the Global Livingston Institute and other organizations can be of assistance. In order to meet the needs of a community, it is crucial to determine what those needs look like.

This study evaluated the impact of a Mental Health Facilitator training protocol conducted with individuals from a local community in rural Uganda. The training programme is designed to facilitate the development and delivery of basic mental health services in under-served communities globally.