We are glad to have concluded a 2 days training under Uganda Safari Guides Association (USAGA) on mechanisms to prevent, detect and respond to violence against women (VAW) and Gender Based Violence (GBV) in the workplace. The organisers invited two of Kara-Tunga team members to attend the training aimed at training other stakeholders in the [...]
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Karamoja Tour Guides attend Gender Based Violence workshop
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Primates of Karamoja, northeast Uganda
Knowing which animals live where is critical to planning effective conservation following to the two researchers. With the support of a grant from the National Geographic Society they are now focusing their research on the primates of Uganda. They conducted primate surveys in northeastern Uganda from 2014 to 2017 The researchers Kenya-based Dutch primatologist Yvonne [...] More -
Karamoja Hospitality Refresher Training with UTA at Hotel Africana Moroto
We are excited to announce a new collaboration with Uganda's tourism private sector apex body 'Uganda Tourism Association' (UTA) and their post COVID-19 hospitality recovery strategy through skilling. Our Karamoja Tourism Academy will handle the recruitment of participants for refresher trainings for in-service hospitality staff from the Karamoja sub-region. The refresher trainings will be given [...] More -
Initiation Meeting Community Tourism Development Mount Kadam
Initiation Meeting Community Tourism Development Mount Kadam - Nakapiripirit local government (Southern Karamoja subregion, Northeastern Uganda) invited Kara-Tunga Tours to the foothills of Mount Kadam to explore possibilities of collaboration in terms of community tourism development. Nakapiripirit district is located in the South of the Karamoja sub-region, North of Mount Elgon and Eastern Uganda most [...] More -
Karamoja Female Guides Training in Northeastern Uganda
Karamoja Female Guides Training in Northeastern Uganda - While the global tourism sector is struggling to have the tourism business back to its normal operations, we decided not to stop offering our services. Kara-Tunga's Karamoja Tourism Academy in collaboration with Nature Uganda held a training for women in Karamoja on how to get involved in [...] More -
Tourism in Third Karamoja Regional Development Strategy KIDP3
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 [...] More -
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
