Environmental Conservation Trust of Uganda (ECOTRUST)

ECOTRUST is a not-for-profit conservation organization established in Uganda in 1999 to conserve biological diversity and enhance social welfare by promoting innovative and sustainable environmental management. The organization delivers conservation finance to thousands of smallholders undertaking restoration as a business in rural communities. ECOTRUST strives to combine the conservation of natural resources with livelihoods improvement through building partnerships for conservation between local, national, international, private and public institutions. ECOTRUST has built a unique business model centered on “Landscape Restoration as Business” using market-based approaches to mobilize financing from private philanthropy, public philanthropy, and emerging sustainability investment ecosystems