Capacity Development Framework for Traditional

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To develop various value chains for herbal medicine enterprises and run their .... clear labelling and colour coding. • Safe herbal remedies free from avoidable.
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Capacity Development Framework for Traditional Healers

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Aim and Objectives

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To domesticate safe medicinal plant species for income generation, improvement of herbal health care provision and conservation of the environment.

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Lake Bunyonyi Region, Kabale Uganda

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medicinal plants is an effective way of mitigating against their loss in the wild due to over exploitation and destruction practiced. ‡ ,PSURYHG practices of traditional

medicine preparation, packaging and how to run their practices will enable them improve on the quality of their services ‡ 3UDFWLFHDVDQHQWHUSULVHValue &KDLQ'HYHORSPHQWIRUKHUEDO medicine can improve livelihood and service provision ‡ Access to credit can empower

traditional healers improve on and run their clinics more effectively.

Ms. Anke Weisheit, Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), P.O. Box 1410 Mbarara, Uganda, Tel: +256-772-888096, [email protected], Mr. Alex Ariho, Excel Hort Consult Ltd, Tel: +256-772-467207, [email protected]

Ms. Anke Weisheit, Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), P.O. Box 1410 Mbarara, Uganda, Tel: +256-772-888096, [email protected], Mr. Alex Ariho, Excel Hort Consult Ltd, Tel: +256-772-467207, [email protected]

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Conservation of Medicinal Plants Domestication and Cultivation

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Ms. Anke Weisheit (MUST), Mr. Alex Ariho, (EHC)

Background

Key Activities

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Main constraints faced by traditional healers ‡ ‡ ‡ ‡

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Results

The need to move from wild harvesting to on-farm cultivation of phytomedicinals ‡ &RQFXUUHQWO\SRSXODWLRQSUHVVXUHRQWKHQDWXUDO resource base and the resulting high rate of deforestation have decreased the diversity and DYDLODELOLW\RIPHGLFLQDOSODQWVLQIRUHVWDQGDJUR ecosystems.

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Introduction

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The aim: Improved livelihoods ‡ &XOWLYDWLRQRIKLJKO\GHPDQGHGPHGLFLQDOVSHFLHVRIIHUV LQFRPHJHQHUDWLQJRSWLRQV ‡ 7UDQVIHUULQJWKHUHVRXUFHIURPWKHIRUHVWWRWKHIDUP VDYHVFROOHFWLRQODERXUUHGXFHVWUDQVSRUWFRVWVDQG eases management. ‡ ,QFUHDVHGSURGXFWVXSSO\FRQWULEXWHVWRGHFUHDVLQJ costs of treatments, thus enhancing access to health FDUHHVSHFLDOO\E\WKHSRRUHVW ‡ ([FKDQJHRINQRZOHGJHVNLOOVDQGSODQWLQJPDWHULDOV DPRQJKHUEDOLVWJURXSV ‡ ([SORULQJWKHSRWHQWLDORQPXOWLSXUSRVHPHGLFLQDOWUHHV

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Cultivated - Aloe vera &Vernonia amygdalina

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Ms. Anke Weisheit, Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), P.O. Box 1410 Mbarara, Uganda, Tel: +256-772-888096, [email protected], Mr. Alex Ariho, Excel Hort Consult Ltd, Tel: +256-772-467207, [email protected]

Ms. Anke Weisheit, Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), P.O. Box 1410 Mbarara, Uganda, Tel: +256-772-888096, [email protected], Mr. Alex Ariho, Excel Hort Consult Ltd, Tel: +256-772-467207, [email protected]

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Harvesting & Processing of Medicinal Plants

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Anke Weisheit*, Alex Ariho*, Erifasi Keita, Nyine Bitahwa

Harvesting of Medicinal Plants and Trees

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Ms. Anke Weisheit, Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), P.O. Box 1410 Mbarara, Uganda, Tel: +256-772-888096, [email protected], Mr. Alex Ariho, Excel Hort Consult Ltd, Tel: +256-772-467207, [email protected]

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