Ms Pauline KALUNDA

Executive Director, The Environmental Conservation Trust of Uganda

Pauline Nantongo Kalunda is the Executive Director of ECOTRUST - the Environmental Conservation Trust of Uganda, a local conservation financing organisation. Pauline is an expert in establishing & managing innovative conservation financing mechanisms. Among her several achievements, Pauline has successfully established a commercially viable payment for environmental services scheme - Trees for Global Benefit (TGB).  Through TGB, ECOTRUST has supported 11,907 smallholder farmers to grow more than 4 million trees on about 10,000ha in different parts of Uganda, linked to the voluntary carbon market.  TGB won the 2013 SEED Award for its innovation and entrepreneurship, its promising efforts to promote economic growth, social development and environmental protection in Uganda, and the potential of its partnership to inspire others.  Pauline also sits on the Board of Directors for several national and international conservation organisations.