Center for Community Holistic Engagement & Transformation Action (COTA) is a Women-Led Org that was established in 2017 as a livelihood youth group in Imvepi.
Imvepi Refugee Settlement
Joined February 2023
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“We started by making bags, and we are now learning how to make sweaters and clothes.”- Knitting Participant
Step by step, young women participating in COTA's vocational training are expanding their skills and exploring new products and livelihood opportunities. 🧶
#WomenEmpowerment #SkillsDevelopment #COTA
Inviting women to a climate meeting is not the same as giving them influence over climate decisions.
Their experiences must shape adaptation priorities, budgets and accountability.
Women should not simply participate in climate action. They should help lead it.
#ClimateJustice #WomenClimateWatch
Irrigation. Water harvesting. Resilient livelihoods.
These are not just technical terms. They are practical adaptation priorities raised during our Women Climate Watch stakeholder engagement in Imvepi.
Climate commitments must translate into solutions communities can actually experience.
#COP31 #ClimateJustice
Climate commitments are made globally, but climate change is experienced locally.
In Imvepi, women experience its effects through livelihoods, food production and access to water.
As COP31 approaches, their realities must inform climate decisions.
#COP31 #ClimateJustice #WomenClimateWatch
“I am now able to practise different hairstyles, including pencil, 3-by-3, locking and freehand styles.”
Through COTA's livelihood and vocational skills programme, young women in Imvepi are turning learning into practical skills and new possibilities for their future. 💇🏾♀️
#COTA #YouthEmpowerment #Livelihoods
Practical learning in action! Young women are developing and practising hairdressing skills as part of COTA's livelihood and economic empowerment programme. 💇🏾♀️
#COTA #VocationalSkills
30 young women are participating in vocational skills training in hairdressing, knitting and crafts at Loketa Women Centre in Imvepi. Building skills, confidence and pathways towards self-reliance. 💪🏾🧶💇🏾♀️ Supported by @actionaiduganda
#COTA #YouthEmpowerment
COTA recently trained and supported young women and men in Zone 4, Imvepi Refugee Settlement on livelihood and economic empowerment with support from @CAREUganda .
Investing in young people's skills and opportunities is key to strengthening self-reliance, resilience and sustainable livelihoods.
Together, we are building stronger communities.
#COTA #YouthEmpowerment #Livelihoods #Imvepi
Building skills. Creating opportunities. Strengthening resilience.
With support from @CAREUganda through the Women Voice and Leadership (WVL) Project COTA is proud to support young women and men in Zone 4, Imvepi Refugee Settlement, through livelihood and economic empowerment initiatives aimed at promoting self-reliance and sustainable livelihoods.
We Are In This Together! 🤝
#COTA #YouthEmpowerment #Livelihoods
What does rights-based climate action look like in practice?
In Imvepi, COTA’s 2-day Women Climate Watch engagement explored HRBA, women’s lived experiences and the Climate Experience Tool. Mentors welcomed the tool; the LC III highlighted irrigation & water harvesting.
Women’s voices must inform adaptation. #climatejustice
Week 6 at Loketa Women Centre! 🧶✂️ Through COTA’s SPA II supported by @actionaiduganda , 30 women from refugee and host communities are developing knitting, hairdressing and craft skills. Practical learning today can create opportunities for tomorrow. #WomensEmpowerment #SPAII
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Training. Practice. Application.
Participants in Imvepi proudly showcase materials from their vocational skills training.
With @actionaiduganda under #SPAII.
#COTA #SkillsDevelopment #WomenEmpowerment
Women with skills. Women with possibilities.
Participants in Imvepi continue to build practical vocational skills through community-based training.
COTA × @actionaiduganda | #SPAII
#COTA #WomenEmpowerment #SkillsDevelopment
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As we mark #GlobalClimateJusticeWeek, communities in Amuru are speaking up on climate change, sharing local challenges and solutions, and calling for climate action that puts people and communities at the centre.
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For many climate-vulnerable countries, disasters create urgent financing needs. But borrowing can create 𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲s: climate shocks increase financing needs; debt repayments reduce fiscal space; countries have less capacity to prepare for the next crisis.
𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝘁. 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
