Ntinkalu | Musoli tukolere ghalala Association (rice growers association) | 70 | Engine Boats with their engines and Fleets of standard Fishing Nets | The Engine Boats and standard fishing nets will enable fisher folk go far deeper in the lake and catch better fish. this will give them better income | The fisher folk will not engage in fishing activities in the Grey Crowned Crane Lake Shore Habitats and Breeding Grounds anymore and this will enable restoration |
Buluba Hospital | Hospital with over 100 acres of land adjacent to the Lake Victoria shores and habitats to the Grey Crowned Cranes | Hospital community composed of members from the surrounding community numbering over 50 | Trees for Conservation and restoration of fish ponds | Community will plant trees adjacent to Lake Shores, leaving Buffer Zone for Grey Crowned Cranes. They will benefit from selling trees, grow crops under them, leading to better environment/ soil fertility | Buffer zone protection to be done by the trees planted by the communities will help prevent encroachment on Grey Crowned Habitats and this will cause restoration of the species’ populations and habitats |
Jomo Ikata Nkombe | Individual large-scale sugarcane grower with over 300 acres land in Nkombe | 1individual with over 300 acres of land adjacent to the Lake Victoria Shores | Trees for conservation of the habitats | The land owner expects to get commercial benefit from the trees in future and that the trees will enhance soil fertility | The trees planted adjacent to the lake shores will prevent encroachment in buffer zone and therefore enable restoration of Grey Crowned Crane Habitats, Breeding grounds |
Arise Africa International | An/NGO engaged in Agroforestry along the Lake shores, orphanage and a school in Masaka | 200 members in Buwere, Masaka and Mbirambira | Agroforestry involving fruit trees and Apiculture with the lake adjacent communities | Apiculture, fruit trees will provide income and divert communities from cultivation of crops in Lake Buffer zone habitat of Grey Crowned Cranes | Apiculture and fruit tree growing will lead to better farming practice adjacent to the Lake Shores and preserve Habitats of Grey Crowned Cranes and this will lead to conservation |
Mayuge Sugar Company | Company for whom the Sugar Cane Out growers supply sugar cane | Company with 4500 out grower farmers adjacent to the Lake Victoria, in NKombe. Kitovu, Bukukenye Masaka | Ecotourism, seed, financial, incentives, sensitization, training in appropriate practices, policies, laws will reduce encroachment, community will demarcate buffer zones with trees | Out growers sensitized will not engage in destructive cultivation of the Crane Habitats and hence will lead to conservation | Continue sensitization, company committed of farmers to appropriate farming practices, construct waste management plant to reduce waste disposal in the lake impacting negatively on habitat of Grey Crowned Cranes, will lead to restoration |
Mayuge Sugar Cane Out growers Association | Masil Cane Growers farmers supplying sugar cane to Mayuge Sugar Industry and growing their sugar cane in villages including; in NKOMBE. KITOVU, BUKENYE, AND | 4500 individual farmers in Masaka | Knowledge of law requiring 200 m of lake buffer zone protection will make farmers stop encroachment restoration | Sensitization, capacity building trainings, commitment to planting indigenous grass to restore Grey Crowned Crane Habitats | Sensitization, commitment of farmers to appropriate farming and waste management practices, will reduce encroachment on Buffer Zones and cause restoration of Grey Crowned Cranes Habitats. |