Community Ecological Sanitation and Hygiene Improvement Project is being implemented by the Uganda Fisheries and Fish Conservation Asssociation (UFFCA) in Butiaba Fishing Village, Masindi district on the lake shores of lake Albert.

Butiaba fishing village comprises three landing sites experiencing hygiene and sanitation problems due to lack of proper excreta disposal facilities thereby contributing to the spread of communicable diseases, water and general environmental pollution which adversely affects the health and livelihood of the local fishers community.

The situation is further compounded by the topographical nature of the fishing village whose soils are predominantly sandy with a high water table that makes it difficulty and expensive for the community to construct conventional pit-latrines thereby encouraging people to use theopen bushes around.

Ignorance, illiterancy, cultural beliefs and taboos including the lack of information on basic health issues have negatively impacted on the environment thus threatening the survival of the lake Albert ecosystem.

The project is therefore intended to contribute to improving the quality of life and livelihoods of the local community dependant on on the lake resources through the provision of efficient appropriate sanitation technologies that ensure safe disposal of human wastes,increased household income and guarantee the improved quality of water sources around and the lake Albert ecosystem.
The GEF focal area addressed is Protection of International Waters.