Restoring Resilience Program (CommonGround)

About this project

CommonGround is an EKN-funded project that supports a paradigm shift toward bottom-up, sustainable agricultural development in the highlands of Uganda. The project’s goal is to build 150,000 resilient smallholder farmer households in communities and watersheds, based on sustainable farming systems, restored watersheds, and improved marketing opportunities. Central to this ambition is empowering farmers to become self-reliant and to use and manage their land in balance with nature.The project applies the Participatory Integrated Planning (PIP) approach as its core strategy. Through PIP, farm households develop long-term visions and concrete action plans for their farms and livelihoods, strengthening motivation, resilience, and stewardship. To reach scale and achieve durable change, the project works simultaneously at household, community, and watershed levels. While PIP is implemented in depth with farming households and communities, its key elements, such as vision building and joint action planning, are also used in engagement with local governments, watershed stakeholders, and market actors to support coordination and collective responsibility.Implementation is structured around three interconnected pathways. The first focuses on establishing resilient farming systems through integrated farm planning and farmer-to-farmer learning. The second supports collective action for watershed restoration, guided by participatory watershed management plans and organized local stakehol…

Published by

Wageningen University & Research - Stichting Wageningen Research · Academic, training and research

Countries

Uganda

Sectors

III.1.a. Agriculture

Funded by

Netherlands - Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Implemented by

ISSD, Joint Effort to Save the Environment (JESE), Albertine Interventions for Development (AID), Africa 2000 Network (A2N), Caritas Kabale

Published by Wageningen University & Research - Stichting Wageningen Research to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 2 Feb 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: NL-KVK-09098104-XM-DAC-7-PPR-4000005947.

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