Kara-Tunga's representing Karamoja Region Tourism Private Sector as vice-chairperson of Karamoja Skills Development Coordination Platform In Tourism Sector during Validation workshop of the 'Third Karamoja Regional Development Strategy' (KIDP3). KIDP1: Peace making (2010-2015) During the implementation of KIDP1 and KIDP2, there was an apparent overwhelming focus on short-term objectives of peace-making, especially interventions intended to [...]
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Tourism in Third Karamoja Regional Development Strategy KIDP3
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Second Karamoja Tourism Skills Coordination Platform Meeting
The second edition of the Karamoja Tourism Skills Development Coordination Platform (KTSDP) meeting, took place on 18 of February 2021 in Moroto. The purpose of the platform is to strengthen coordination, promotion, and preservation of tourism ecosystem services relevant for job skills creation while ensuring continuous benefits to locals and economies. The initiative is spearheaded [...] More -
Launch Assessment Training Package Uganda Tourist Guides
Launch Assessment Training Package Uganda Tourist Guides by Uganda government Directorate of Industrial Training where a team of Kara-Tunga tour guides have been proudly part of developing. More -
Off-the-beaten track Birding in Pian Upe Reserve, Northeastern Uganda
Birding in Pian Upe Reserve, Northeastern Uganda - The birds were simply amazing. Besides many typical East-African savanna species (which are not so easy to find in Uganda but are fairly common in Kenya and Tanzania) we spotted many of the more localised "specials" like... the pretty Bruce's Pigeons and the seldom-seen Stone Partridges (which [...] More -
Exciting Birds on the slopes of Mountain Moroto
Exciting Birds on the slopes of Mountain Moroto - A hike up into the mountain from Moroto town into the woodlands with beautiful views, exciting birds and mountain air with sightings of The Boran Cisticola (One of the rare bird species birder Tony Byarugaba had been tirelessly searching for in vain, turned out to be [...] More -
Wonderful birds in Karamoja, Northeastern frontier of Uganda
Wonderful Birds Karamoja Northeastern Uganda - One of the treasures of Uganda’s Northeastern Karamojaland is the unique Birdlife sighted from the wetlands system in the South and West, the lush forests around the mountain ranges and the thorny acacia thickets and Savannah grasslands on the undulating plains in between. During the last days, we had [...] More -
Granite Rock ‘Ruoth’ in Abim offers Uganda’s best Climbing
Granite Rock 'Ruoth' in Abim offers Uganda's best Climbing - The Ruth rock nicknamed 'Chief', is called one of Uganda's most impressive rock features with some of the best climbing found in Uganda. Though climbed by only a few frontiers with the first found record in 1957. Yosemite-esque scale What looked like a few [...] More -
Climbing the Mysterious Granite Rock Ruoth in Abim Uganda
Climbing the Mysterious Granite Rock Ruoth in Abim District of Northeastern Uganda (February 2013) - Beyond Abim we soon found ourselves staring at the incredible piece of rock we had come to climb, an immense granite dome called Ruoth (The Chief). The main face was 500m of smooth, black, undulating granite, not devoid of weaknesses [...] More -
Assessment Karamoja Hiking Guides on Mount Moroto
Skilling Karamoja Hiking Guides on Mount Moroto - Kara-Tunga is building a sustainable community-lead regional tourism sector through skilling with the Karamoja Tourism Academy. Together with our partners, we develop demand-based curriculum, train local trainers and local assessors aimed at increasing the accessibility and inspiring the community. Today we are receiving hiking and trekking guides [...] More -
Watch: Karamoja Hiking Guides Assessment
Practical Assessment Karamoja Hiking Guides on Mount Moroto - We have concluded a fantastic week of assessing Karamoja's Hiking Guides along the Warrior Nomad Trail for a future made-to-measure training programme that will be piloted with this group next year. The facilitator Jan Bakker and Bergwandelen.com will develop a training program tailored to the conditions [...] More
