Regenerative Design in Uganda

Regenar Development Initiative

The Regenar Development Initiative (RDI) is dedicated to promoting Regenerative Development and Design. RDI’s flagship initiative is the Kiwaatule-2030 - a community-led uprising against urban fragmentation and dysfunction. We are creating the conditions for pooling land development decisions in the Nalubaaga Bioregion to reverse the extinction of our wetland ecosystem and catalyze a regenerative urban future. We are executing strategic activities across three spheres of influence: Land, Governance, and Money – each an evolutionary shift toward enriching our species' relation with life. LAND: Transitioning fragmented parcels of private land into a co-stewarded ecosystem. GOVERNANCE: Replacing top-down control with a Distributed Stewarding Cooperative. MONEY: Redirecting money from extraction to enriching life – relations in our place. In 5-10 years, this triple-shift should dream and grow us into a future of ecological restoration, reforesting, and rewilding Nalubaaga wetland into a nature park; social flourishing (renewing a culture of stewarding life, rebuilding essential services and spaces), and economic viability (innovating informal supply chains into a new economy of co-owned enterprises, services, real estate, hospitality, eco-spiritual tourism, finance, etc). In this learning-by-doing initiative, we’re building the cultural commons (processes, structures, systems) to gracefully transition urban land from speculative markets into living commons, all rooted in Obuntu.

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