Iganga Garbage Management for Improved Environment Health is a project being implemented by Rural Development Foundation, a local community based organisation operating in Iganga district. The project area experiences garbage management problems due to lack of proper waste disposal facilities and equipment.

This makes the area unsightly and poses serious pollution, hygiene and general environmental problems that encourage the occurrence of communicable diseases which negatively affect the local micro climate of the area and the livelihoods of local community.

The project is involved in the promotion of appropriate waste management technologies aimed at ameriorating the negative environmental effects posed by the poor waste management and disposal in the area. Such technologies include among others collection and sorting at source, disposal and composting to generate manure for sustainable organic farming.

The project activities aim at improving the livelihoods of the local community through viable income generating activities and more so ameriorating the negative environmental impacts on the local micro climate.
The local community is actively involved in the promotion of project activities. The GEF focal area addresed is climate change mitigation.