The Forest Station and Forest degradation impact the lives of 1.6 billion people worldwide, whose livelihoods depend on forests. In Uganda, the Ministry of Water and Environment estimates that the country loses about 122,000 hectares of forests annually, mainly due to demand for firewood and charcoal. Eight out of 10 people in Uganda rely on wood biomass for heating, cooking and lighting. The school relies on firewood majorly. There are quite a number of challenges our lessons are interrupted, because when students come to class, instead of going to direct the classes to attend lessons, when the fire is not there, we have to send students first to go and look for firewood. Firewood has also got scarce. To safeguard Uganda's forests, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations with support from the European Union and the Embassy of Sweden in Uganda, is implementing two high-impact projects to contribute to forest restoration, tree growing and better environment and incomes for communities that rely on forests. Through the solo production grant scheme, or SPGS, FAO and the European Union provided grants to tree farmers throughout the country to reduce their costs of planting and maintaining quality forest plantations. This project, its main objective is to support investment in commercial forestry, and we have been working with about 400 farmers, we work also with communities, we work with institutions just to support in and train in the commercial tree plant. 80,000 hectares planted if we start from 2004, we are the project started, but also supporting industrial territories, and also broadening the necessary network so that people can have quality material. And this has been a great contribution to the industry. Second contribution is to carbon sequestration, and this is a very strong contribution. I got about 18.7 million shillings from FAO SPGS grant, and I have used it mainly in establishing the forest, maintaining it, within it, and even pruning, and then treatment of tamayitsa, those are other pests, and then paying the laborers. The biggest success is because they were constant trainings by SPGS, and that is what actually helped me to keep on maintaining their forest. FAO also trains and works with tree nursery operators to apply good standards for producing tree seedlings. Satification of nurseries provides quality assurance to buyers and ensures availability of quality seedlings for growing sustainable forests. What I learned from FAO is the procedures of tree seedling production. Another thing that I learned from FAO is the plantation establishment, the general management of a plantation. A key component for successful forest restoration in semi-aried areas like Karamoja is research that informs investors and farmers when recommended tree types and forest practices. Together with the National Forestry Resources Research Institute, FAO initiated research on tree species with the potential to thrive in dry land areas and produce quality timber. From what we are seeing here, we just need to scale up. The trees have suffered drought, and you can even see it with the local authorities they are drying, but in this one I also surviving. We are going to promote GEC, Kuala Lola Caluptas 550, then G. Aboria and Melia Uganda. As the society is very confident that we can have trees unevenly forest in Karamoja here. One of the big achievements of our contribution to the forestry sector, he is making everybody aware that this is a profitable sector, which was not before. And again, to do this, it required many, many different elements, but the final aim is that now we know that it's a profitable sector, and it's commercial forestry, so it's quite essential. We have the overall U-ambition, which then is reflected in the way we work with the partner countries. I need to mention what we call the Green Deals, which is the all-ambition of the European Union to considerably scale up its efforts in terms of bringing better people and the environment together in whatever we do. So this means that to promote as much as possible a sustainable access to finance. No adoption of energy saving technologies increases the demand for fuel wood, resulting in destruction of forests for wood biomass. We need to increase forest coverage by planting new forests. We are forests have been cut, but also we want to conserve the existing forests. When it comes to conserving the existing forests, it means that we have to give alternative sources of energy. Through the climate resilient livelihood opportunities for women economic empowerment project, FAAO is working with the Embassy of Sweden in Uganda to provide clean, safe and labor-saving energy technologies to influence gender roles and help reverse the effects of climate change in West Nile and the central Cato Corridor. This is done by turning a Greek culture residue and waste into clean energy. That thing saves time because I used to cook with the firewood. The firewood I was using, we were collecting it very far. The benefit I am getting from it is the bio products down there, de-fatilizers. It is really working, I tried it under my bananas there, even the nursery bed and preparing, I tried it. FAAO will establish 200 flexi biogas systems. Reducing dependency on wood biomass as a main source of energy in Uganda will help to reduce natural resource destruction and related social challenges, such as children's keeping school to collect firewood, as well as gender-based violence, as women and girls track long distances to collect firewood. Sweden has been a development partner of Uganda for many years and under the current strategy, we have decided that the climate change resilience and gender equality and also increasing women's economic empowerment should be focused on our development cooperation with Uganda. So the people who benefit from this intervention no longer need to go and cut down as many trees to cook their food but it also frees up time for many of the women who would normally go fetch that firewood, meaning that they can engage in more productive activities.