The project has continued to develop the capacity of Batwa in terms of skill development, awareness raising and engagement. In February, 64 people (60 Batwa and 4 non Batwa) were trained in enterprise development and sociocultural values. These Batwa trainees included; 27 females and 33 males.
All the non- Batwa trainees were males. The trainings have helped the Batwa to handle their life style challenges and using the enterprise development and financial literacy knowledge, in February 2019, 30 Batwa started a village savings group to develop themselves. Every Sunday, they pool funds (UGX 1000) and after a month they give a hen to a member. All members have to get a share of the distributed hens.
This arrangement has promoted Batwa unity and cohesiveness. In addition to these two trainings, thirty-eight (38) Batwa (18 guides and 20 dancers) were also retrained and given certificates after proving their worth as professional guides and dancers. Batwa guides can now ably guide tourists and from the feedback reports from tourists, they have got excellent experience
We have continued to build the capacity of the Batwa through their association- Bwindi Batwa Community Development Association (BBCDA). The project has continued to support the BBCDA office in Rubuguri Town Council.
We conducted 4 meetings with the BBCDA executive members and one BBFE Board meeting that streamlined the governance structure of BBFE and BBCDA to increase the awareness in community & skill Development
