Youth Livelihood Program

YOUTH LIVELIHOOD PROGRAMME (YLP)

The Youth Livelihood Programme (YLP) is Government of Uganda Rolling Programme, targeting the unemployed and poor youth in the country. The Programme is being implemented under the Ministry of Gender, Labor and Social Development, beginning FY 2013/2014 and is presently covering all the Districts. It is being financed initially from Government own resources (with a possibility of development partners’ support when need arises) and the initial budget for the first 5 years is UGX 265 billion.

The design and implementation of the Programme is based on the Community Demand-driven Development (CDD) model. Where the Youth receive support under the Programme in form of Revolving Funds (interest-free), advanced through Youth Interest Groups (YIGs).

 The Programme Development Objective is to empower the target youth in Uganda to harness their socio-economic potential and increase self-employment opportunities and income levels.

While the specific objectives of YLP include:

  • To provide youth with marketable vocational skills and tool kits for self-employment and job creation.
  • To provide financial support to enable the youth establish Income Generating Activities (IGAs).
  • To provide the youth with entrepreneurship and life skills as an integral part of their livelihoods.
  • To provide youth with relevant knowledge and information for attitudinal change           (positive mind set change).

 The Youth Livelihood Programme has three (3) Components, namely: Skills development component (SD)-20%, Livelihood support component (LS)-70% and (iii) institutional support (IS)-10%

 Kamuli District started implementing YLP program in 2013/14FY, It’s among the pilot Districts in the country. It has received YLP funds as follows; -

FY

Amount received so far

No. of groups

Comment

2013/14

535,818,736/=

92

Repayment is on going

2014/15

188,745,000/=

27

Repayment is on going

2014/15

37,443,447/=

07

Repayment is on going

2015/16

122,545,500/=

18

Repayment is on going

2016/17

0

0

 

2017/18

363,614,000/=

47

Repayment is on going

2018/19

355,200,000/=

39

Repayment is on going

2019/20

115,939,000/=

12

Implementation is on going

TOTAL

1,680,699,236/=

234

 

 The table below shows the number of groups and beneficiaries per sub-county

S/N

SUB-COUNTY

  NUMBER OF GROUPS

NUMBER OF BENEFICIARIES

M

F

1

KITAYUNJWA

30

337     

187

150

2

BULOPA

15

170

95

75

3

NAMASAGALI

12

145

85

60

4

BUGULUMBYA

17

196    

111

85

5

MBULAMUTI

10

102

52

50

6

NABWIGULU

23

281

166

115

7

NAWANYAGO

15

170

95

75

8

KAGUMBA

10

105

55

50

9

BALAWOLI

19

214

119

95

10

BUTANSI

15

183

108

75

11

WANKOLE

15

171

96

75

12

NAMWENDWA

21

267

162

105

13

MAGOGO

3

30

15

15

14

KISOZI

17

208

123

85

15

KTC

9

109

64

45

 A total of 234 youth groups have so far benefited in the district, with 2735 youths out of which 1213 are female and 1522 are male across the district.

 Recovery status

Shillings 317,943,463/=have been recovered ranking the district at 40.26%as at 30th June 2020 recovery by the Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development from the groups whose repayment dates reached.

 Achievements

  • The program has created jobs to a number of youth in the district through the skills development projects like carpentry, bakery, metal fabrication, and saloon.
  • The program has also improved on the living standards of the youth in the various groups that have so far benefited.
  • 5 Youth groups have completed repayment namely ( Bunangwe youth chalk project form Kitayunjwa s/c, Mission youth metal fabricators from Namwendwa s/c, Busaamo youth poultry from Balawoli s/c, Bukagenha youth Agro-produce project from Namwendwa s/c and Kabaganda youth beef ptoject from Namasagali s/c).

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   The above photos show the District community development officer and the internal aduitor while training the youth groups  at the youth center that have been approved for funding by the ministry before receiving the funds in Finincial managemnt, Group dynamics, and Record keeping for proper runing of the different projects .

  

The above photo shows the YLP focal person and the group members of Buliso youth Boda Boda project from kisozi sub-county while receiving their motorcycles at DDUNGI GENERAL PARTS in Kamuli district.The group was able to procure two motorcycles from the funds they received

 

 The above photos show the YLP focal person while monitoring the different projects within the district as a way of supporting them and ensure group cohesion