To enhance communities' resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change impacts.
NaTA is a youth-led organization founded by young leaders affected by major oil projects, including the Oil Refinery, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), the Tilenga project, and the Kingfisher project, which are implemented by TOTALEnergies, CNOOC, and the Government of Uganda in Hoima, Kikuube, and Buliisa
Witnessing first-hand the socio-economic injustices caused by the ongoing oil and gas development in our region, we were compelled to act. Drawing from diverse professional backgrounds, including law, social work, environmental science, community development, agriculture, and education, we came together with a shared commitment to actively contribute to community-led efforts in promoting sustainable livelihoods, advocating for climate justice, and nature conservation amidst the ongoing oil and gas activities.
We form and strengthen self-help groups of Oil Projects Affected Persons (PAPs) to build resilience, mutual support, and collective action. We organize oil projects affected communities into self-help groups, build their knowledge, expose them and economic capacity to become resilient to climate change impacts worsened by the ongoing development projects, induced displacement, loss of social capital and community cohesion, loss of livelihoods and land, among others.
We train and support Grassroots Environmental Human Rights Defenders (EHRDs) and Climate Activists to speak up, mobilize, and advocate for justice.
We bring together directly and indirectly affected persons into a community movement of solidarity, amplifying local struggles into powerful collective voices.
We collaborate with community-based, national, regional, and international organizations. As official members of networks and coalitions, we remain open to joining more like-minded alliances to expand solidarity and strengthen advocacy.
Together with our allies: from rural communities to international partners; we demand that businesses respect environmental and human rights and that development benefits people and nature, not just corporations.
A resilient and sustainable community where nature and people flourish.
To advance inclusive and locally grounded approaches for community development, climate change adaptation and the protection of youth and environmental rights in oil-affected regions.
We are empowering community people to know their human and environmental rights; to be able to defend and demand social, ecological, and climate justice amidst development projects (Business and Human Rights for rural communities), we organize oil projects affected communities into self-help groups, build their knowledge, expose them and economic capacity to become resilient to climate change impacts worsened by the ongoing development projects, induced displacement, loss of social capital and community cohesion, loss of livelihoods and land, among others.
We organize community and vulnerable groups, specifically youth and women, to speak
out against socio-economic and other human rights violations. We use our social
media platforms to amply our community voices, amply our community voices, we write petitions, and
we also encourage community members to use legal processes, such as the court, in seeking justice.
We are building an ecosystem of empowered Grassroots/community Environmental Human Rights Defenders,
as well as Climate activists.
We encourage tree planting, sustainable farming practices, circular economy (proper waste management), and we play the watchdog roles in monitoring, documenting, and reporting of environmental destruction and pollution by businesses, holding stakeholders accountable, and encouraging rural and indigenous people to be proactive agents of environmental protection, preservation, and conservation.
We do a lot of climate change education and advocacy training for grassroots communities, through organizing community platforms to create awareness about the impacts of climate change, the cause, and the local adaptations and mitigation strategies to climate crises. We also educate people about their individual roles to contribute to climate justice, demand that polluters pay, and become active allies in fighting climate change impacts.
