MINISTRY OF GENDER, LABOUR AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

YOUTH LIVELIHOOD PROGRAMME (YLP)

The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development joins the rest of Ugandans to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of Kisanja Hakuna Mchezo. May 12, 2018 will be two years since H.E. The President of Uganda was sworn in for 2016-2021 term. The 2016-2021 NRM Manifesto was developed in line with the current National Planning Framework and the National Development Plan II. The Manifesto aspires to deliver Uganda to a competitive middle-income status from a predominantly low-income level through inclusiveness and job creation. Under the Manifesto, a fi ve-year UShs 265bn Youth Livelihood Programme was introduced toprovide startup capital to the youth to create self employment opportunities and employ others. The Manifesto Week presents an opportunity to celebrate, take stock of the cumulative milestones and achievements of Government over the years among these is the Youth Livelihood Programme.

Background to the Youth Livelihood Programme [YLP]The Youth Livelihood Programme (YLP) is a Government of Uganda Rolling Programme, targeting the unemployed and poor youth in the country. The Programme was designed in response to the high unemployment rate and poverty level among the youth in the country.

Launched in January 2014, the programme’s main objective is to empower the target youth to harness their socio-economic potential and increase self-employment opportunities and income levels. The specifi c objectives of the programmme include:• Provide youth with marketable vocational skills and tool kits for self-employment and job creation;• Provide fi nancial support to enable the youth establish Income Generating Activities (IGAs);• Provide the youth with entrepreneurship and life skills as an integral part of their livelihoods and fi nally;• Provide youth with relevant knowledge and information for attitudinal change (positive mind set change).

The Programme is being implemented by Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) and the Local Governments in all the present 122 districts [including Kampala Capital City Authority] and 41 Municipalities.

PROGRESS OF IMPLEMENTATIONSince its implementation, the Programme has achieved the following key milestones:

1) Financing of Youth ProjectsAs at May 12, 2018, the Programme had disbursed UShs106,867,484,586 to fi nance 14,195 groups to benefi t 175,341 youth, of whom 79,749 (45%) are female and 95,592 (55%) are male.

In line with the Programme Development Objective, YLP has continued to reach out to poor vulnerable and unemployed youth in various categories such as youth with disability, youth who have dropped out of school, single parent youth among others as indicated below.

Majority of the benefi ciaries are school drop-outs with 34.6%, followed by those who have only completed primary education scoring 19.6% and 2.8% are youth with disabilities as indicated above.

THE REPUBLIC UGANDA

SUMMARY OF DISBURSEMENT BY SECTOR

SECTOR / PROJECT TYPE NO . PROJECTS AMOUNT DISURSED % BENEFICIARIES INVESTED MALE FEMALE TOTAL

Agriculture 5,333 39,278,529,754 36.8 36,989 30,216 67,205

Trade 4,521 31,202,301,242 29.2 30,522 25,679 56,201

Service 2,032 19,125,362,892 17.9 12,881 10,897 23,778

Industry 888 5,988,713,155 5.6 5,894 4,870 10,764

Vocational Skills 703 5,684,806,205 5.3 4,370 4,173 8,543 Agro Industry (Value Addition) 462 3,685,915,680 3.4 3,266 2,571 5,837

Agro Forestry 165 1,123,281,319 1.1 1,068 902 1,970

ICT 74 633,554,735 0.6 481 346 827 Creative Industry 17 145,019,604 0.1 121 95 216

14,195 106,867,484,586 100.0 95,592 79,749 175,341

2) Capacity enhancement of local governments

The MGLSD undertook sensitization of 1,416 key district level stakeholders in all the districts and municipalities. Similarly, a total of 1,215Trainers of Trainers (ToTs) have been trained to create a resource pool of persons responsible for the various capacity building activities among the key implementers at the community, sub-county and district levels. In addition, the Ministry has supported all District and Municipal Councils with Computers and Motorcycles for the District Youth Chairpersons to enable them undertake routine monitoring and support supervision of groups.

3) Recovery of YLP fundsRecovery of the revolving fund has gained pace across the Country. As at May 12, 2018, UShs17.454Bn had been recovered, which represents 67% of the UShs25.847Bn that is due to-date. Repayments keep increasing as more groups continue to pay according to their schedules. A total of 162 groups have completed making 100%recovery of funds.

Produce Buying and Selling, Bull Fattening and Boba-bodas as indicated in the chart below are some of the projects with the highest repayment rates and thus offer quick returns to the youth.

Disaggregation of projects making recoveries to identify enterprises with high repayment rates

3) Revolving of funds RecoveredAs at May 12, 2018, UShs7.956Bn has been revolved back to the respective local governments,867 Projects have been funded using revolving funds and 10,286 youth have benefi ted.

YOUTH LIVELIHOOD PROGRAMME (YLP)

SUMMARY OF FUNDS DISBURSED AS AT MAY 12, 2018

NO. DISTRICT FROM IPF FROM REVOLVING FUND TOTAL DISBURSEMENT

NO . PROJECTS

AMOUNT DISBURSED

NO . PROJECTS

AMOUNT DISBURSED

NO . PROJECTS

AMOUNT DISBURSED

1 ABIM 58 558,430,320 58 558,430,320

2 ADJUMANI 78 556,854,058 78 556,854,058

3 AGAGO 83 688,702,500 83 688,702,500

4 ALEBTONG 109 924,066,000 109 924,066,000

5 AMOLATAR 90 653,610,200 4 37,484,000 94 691,094,200

6 AMUDAT 104 821,619,670 104 821,619,670 7 AMURIA 164 806,663,454 164 806,663,454

8 AMURU 89 659,565,300 29 252,435,600 912,000,900

9 APAC 98 798,431,900 98 798,431,900

10 APAC MC 29 238,139,000 1 12,440,000 30 250,579,000

11 ARUA 224 1,680,201,650 11 99,906,000 235 1,780,107,650

12 ARUA MC 34 292,418,000 5 52,331,500 39 344,749,500

13 BUDAKA 88 624,593,192 14 121,775,480 102 746,368,672

14 BUDUDA 48 509,376,074 12 150,000,000 60 659,376,074

15 BUGIRI 120 904,576,000 7 73,720,000 127 978,296,000

16 BUGIRI MC 34 302,930,000 2 20,000,000 36 322,930,000

17 BUHWEJU 105 569,205,400 105 569,205,400

18 BUIKWE 35 250,321,000 14 142,860,000 49 393,181,000

19 BUKEDEA 65 536,930,965 65 536,930,965

20 BUKOMANSIMBI 72 441,348,000 72 441,348,000

21 BUKWO 92 420,906,821 26 179,538,000 118 600,444,821

22 BULAMBULI 69 432,267,856 10 116,990,000 79 549,257,856

23 BULIISA 54 539,661,000 54 539,661,000

24 BUNDIBUGYO 114 716,133,000 8 82,000,000 122 798,133,000

25 BUNYANGABU 81 442,627,500 12 90,021,000 93 532,648,500

26 BUSHENYI 127 692,173,590 10 98,142,000 137 790,315,590

27 BUSHENYI ISHAKA MC 31 170,687,400 31 170,687,400

28 BUSIA 91 729,014,963 18 131,125,000 109 860,139,963

29 BUSIA MC 29 217,760,069 29 217,760,069 30 BUTALEJA 57 333,940,957 57 333,940,957

31 BUTAMBALA 48 370,631,978 13 115,199,000 61 485,830,978

32 BUTEBO 27 193,634,700 27 193,634,700

33 BUVUMA 67 516,871,980 67 516,871,980

34 BUYENDE 182 917,959,000 21 121,826,000 203 1,039,785,000

35 DOKOLO 94 759,826,000 13 112,227,000 107 872,053,000

KEY BENEFITS FROM PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATIONThe Benefits/Impact of the Youth Livelihood Programme are being felt across the country. Some of these benefits include:i) Enhanced Social Capital among the youth: Through the group approach, the youth

have been able to build networks for increased productivity among themselves, enhanced mutual trust and support. This has increased cooperation and ownership of projects

ii) Fosteredassetaccumulation: Through the revolving funds, the youth have been able to accumulate a number of assets including livestock and physical assets (i.e. land among others).

iii) Increased savings: Evidence from the Process Evaluation has revealed that 43% of YLP groups had started making savings in their group accounts.

iv) Enhanced incomes and economic empowerment: According to YLP Process Evaluation, 34% of YLP groups have increased earnings which has led to improved standards of living.

v) Skillsacquisition:The Programme has enabled skills transfer among the youth through apprenticeship training and as a result, many are now engaged in self-employment opportunities and some are even employing other members of the community.

vi) Enhancedfinancialinclusion: All the 175,341 youth financed under the Programme, access the funds through their group accounts in Commercial banks. The introduction of the youth to banks, many of whom had never had transactions with the bank, has enabled them to access additional financial services.

vii) Reducedinvolvementofyouthinnon-productiveactivities: The Youth funded under the Programme across the country are actively engaged in productive economic ventures, thereby reducing time spent in non-productive activities including drinking, demonstrations and other unlawful practices.

viii) Provision of employment: Through YLP, 160,000 direct jobs have been created and over 300,000 through the multiplier effects at household and community levels.

1. CHALLENGES AND MITIGATION MEASURESChallenge Mitigation Measures adopted

i. Insufficient funding (out of the Ushs.265 Billion, only Ushs 161 Billion (66%) has been released to the Ministry

Continuous advocacy for increased funding by Government

ii. Overwhelming demand for support across all districts amidst budgetary constraints.

iii. Misinformation/Negative campaign by saboteurs (including some political leaders at the district and national level).

Continuous sensitization and advocacy campaigns.

iv. Natural Calamities (droughts, disease outbreaks, floods). Rescheduling of repayments and or Refinancing projects genuinely affected by natural calamities

v. Low technical capacity in some Local Governments (understaffing, slow action).

Rationalization of deployment of the existing staff at the Local Governments

vi. Poor attitude of some youth Strengthening sensitization and advocacy campaigns

vii. Reported cases of impropriety (corruption) by some Local Government officials and youth leaders.

Invoking sanctions, Administrative and legal actions including naming and shaming of culprits. A number of district officials who have been involved in malpractices have been interdicted, while others are being prosecuted.

viii. Internal Youth Groups Challenges. Youth by their very nature are a transient target group. They are highly mobile. Some female Youth for instance have got married outside their original communities after receiving funding under YLP; hence, they are not able to stick with their groups and projects initiated. There have also been cases of internal conflicts arising from many factors which have led to disintegration of some groups where the cases have not been handled appropriately by the Local Authorities.

Continuous training and support to groups on group cohesion mechanisms

ix. General enterprise/Business challenges. Low capacities and commitment of some groups to cope with the normal business risks which all businesses face, leading to failure of some projects.

Training support and building linkages with other actors

Group mermbers of Kitengule Boda Boda Project in Ibanda District possing with their motocycles bought with funds from YLP-Ministry of GLSD

Men loading maize produce of Katebe youth members on the truck they bought after acquiring YLP funds

Mrs. Diana Makobore Communications Officer (YLP) Left with Apophia Atukwatirire right-the Chairperson of Katabura irish Potato youth project inspecting the quality of irish potatoes grown in Rubaya Subcounty-Kabale

District.

YOUTH LIVELIHOOD PROGRAMME (YLP)

NO. DISTRICT FROM IPF FROM REVOLVING FUND TOTAL DISBURSEMENT

NO . PROJECTS

AMOUNT DISBURSED

NO . PROJECTS

AMOUNT DISBURSED

NO . PROJECTS

AMOUNT DISBURSED

36 ENTEBBE MC 23 172,530,724 9 78,385,600 32 250,916,324

37 FORT PORTAL MC 28 169,204,570 28 169,204,570

38 GOMBA 68 599,773,022 68 599,773,022

39 GULU 68 530,045,300 68 530,045,300 40 GULU MC 45 343,862,000 45 343,862,000 41 HOIMA 166 1,488,508,125 166 1,488,508,125

42 HOIMA MC 37 259,847,612 37 259,847,612

43 IBANDA 78 674,486,639 78 674,486,639

44 IBANDA MC 31 246,671,000 31 246,671,000

45 IGANGA 161 1,300,145,000 34 273,500,000 195 1,573,645,000

46 IGANGA MC 36 267,157,500 36 267,157,500

47 ISINGIRO 101 983,679,519 101 983,679,519

48 JINJA 91 728,548,707 91 728,548,707

49 JINJA MC 38 303,230,000 38 303,230,000

50 KAABONG 145 1,201,434,979 145 1,201,434,979

51 KABALE 96 533,335,945 17 117,990,200 113 651,326,145

52 KABALE MC 20 175,040,500 20 175,040,500

53 KABAROLE 100 529,997,356 29 274,720,000 129 804,717,356

54 KABERAMAIDO 82 419,539,159 82 419,539,159

55 KAGADI 97 827,464,122 97 827,464,122

56 KAKUMIRO 68 526,780,500 68 526,780,500

57 KALANGALA 84 630,481,000 84 630,481,000

58 KALIRO 104 749,269,600 17 132,000,000 121 881,269,600

59 KALUNGU 65 509,250,800 7 68,748,000 72 577,998,800

60 KAMPALA 323 3,076,817,280 17 153,900,000 340 3,230,717,280

61 KAMULI 164 1,051,078,236 14 122,939,000 178 1,174,017,236

62 KAMULI MC 28 230,273,747 28 230,273,747

63 KAMWENGE 111 987,972,200 18 164,582,000 129 1,152,554,200

64 KANUNGU 93 715,563,400 13 121,650,000 106 837,213,400

65 KAPCHORWA 47 278,571,751 47 278,571,751

66 KAPCHORWA MC 23 184,496,000 1 12,400,000 24 196,896,000

67 KASESE 187 1,464,722,150 11 106,080,000 198 1,570,802,150

68 KASESE MC 50 318,654,680 7 51,000,000 57 369,654,680

69 KATAKWI 96 784,938,017 96 784,938,017

70 KAYUNGA 156 1,141,816,238 156 1,141,816,238

71 KIBAALE 63 513,790,800 2 24,500,000 65 538,290,800

72 KIBOGA 57 377,604,000 57 377,604,000

73 KIBUKU 97 678,046,076 6 49,211,000 103 727,257,076

74 KIRA MC 39 366,036,500 1 12,195,000 40 378,231,500

75 KIRUHURA 91 946,852,500 9 103,600,000 100 1,050,452,500

76 KIRYANDONGO 100 789,574,226 100 789,574,226

77 KISORO 120 721,150,500 17 139,180,000 137 860,330,500

78 KISORO MC 30 261,102,500 2 25,000,000 32 286,102,500

79 KITGUM 155 896,820,300 37 263,785,000 192 1,160,605,300

80 KITGUM MC 46 268,076,000 7 49,420,000 53 317,496,000

81 KOBOKO 87 670,036,858 87 670,036,858

82 KOBOKO MC 8 83,453,000 14 153,823,000 22 237,276,000

83 KOLE 86 611,004,700 86 611,004,700 84 KOTIDO 145 805,008,596 4 30,000,000 149 835,008,596

85 KOTIDO MC 68 475,825,936 4 45,300,000 72 521,125,936 86 KUMI 72 547,674,654 72 547,674,654 87 Kumi MC 36 287,497,000 36 287,497,000

88 KWEEN 96 512,592,727 96 512,592,727

89 KYANKWANZI 50 400,583,000 50 400,583,000

90 KYEGEGWA 70 633,146,300 10 117,493,000 80 750,639,300

91 KYENJOJO 188 1,301,530,500 188 1,301,530,500

92 KYOTERA 49 327,966,250 20 165,610,000 69 493,576,250

93 LAMWO 153 1,113,281,000 153 1,113,281,000

94 LIRA 65 520,897,500 65 520,897,500

95 LIRA MC 53 482,900,500 53 482,900,500

96 LUGAZI MC 21 155,668,000 21 155,668,000

97 LUUKA 102 761,493,500 10 86,077,000 112 847,570,500

98 LUWEERO 149 1,025,700,291 18 162,740,000 167 1,188,440,291

NO. DISTRICT FROM IPF FROM REVOLVING FUND TOTAL DISBURSEMENT

NO . PROJECTS

AMOUNT DISBURSED

NO . PROJECTS

AMOUNT DISBURSED

NO . PROJECTS

AMOUNT DISBURSED

99 LWENGO 104 676,847,450 104 676,847,450

100 LYANTONDE 90 503,073,998 4 35,071,800 94 538,145,798

101 MAKINDYE SSABAGABO MC 40 302,366,000 8 73,086,000 48 375,452,000

102 MANAFWA 44 395,763,114 1 12,200,000 45 407,963,114

103 MARACHA 83 568,064,700 83 568,064,700

104 MASAKA 73 591,950,995 14 140,393,000 87 732,343,995 105 MASAKA MC 50 269,328,681 50 269,328,681 106 MASINDI 112 857,292,000 112 857,292,000

107 MASINDI MC 32 258,426,172 5 38,300,000 37 296,726,172

108 MAYUGE 144 1,076,904,045 10 90,800,000 154 1,167,704,045

109 MBALE 71 702,076,112 20 250,000,000 91 952,076,112

110 MBALE MC 18 125,034,681 18 125,034,681

111 MBARARA 82 792,814,978 17 184,300,000 99 977,114,978

112 MBARARA MC 36 294,156,100 12 102,865,000 48 397,021,100

113 MITOOMA 80 570,504,500 9 85,726,000 89 656,230,500

114 MITYANA 69 462,416,457 7 66,010,000 76 528,426,457

115 MITYANA MC 19 143,788,750 10 98,283,600 29 242,072,350

116 MOROTO 86 779,050,243 1 7,000,000 87 786,050,243

117 MOROTO MC 27 215,788,681 27 215,788,681 118 MOYO 103 905,864,800 103 905,864,800

119 MPIGI 70 608,718,000 4 42,000,000 74 650,718,000

120 MUBENDE 175 1,203,672,303 20 135,500,000 195 1,339,172,303

121 MUBENDE MC 24 187,563,000 24 187,563,000

122 MUKONO 66 564,743,500 66 564,743,500 123 MUKONO MC 31 242,418,500 31 242,418,500 124 NAKAPIRIPIRIT 105 847,453,399 18 158,040,000 123 1,005,493,399

125 NAKASEKE 123 884,132,080 123 884,132,080

126 NAKASONGOLA 59 575,957,000 5 60,500,000 64 636,457,000 127 NAMAYINGO 91 940,593,750 91 940,593,750

128 NAMISINDWA 23 188,957,000 20 175,280,000 43 364,237,000

129 NAMUTUMBA 121 662,411,000 9 63,000,000 130 725,411,000

130 NANSANA MC 60 456,741,100 60 456,741,100

131 NAPAK 159 1,068,453,326 159 1,068,453,326

132 NEBBI 97 522,603,550 97 522,603,550

133 NEBBI MC 25 189,315,000 25 189,315,000

134 NGORA 102 812,062,532 2 20,000,000 104 832,062,532

135 NJERU MC 28 200,945,400 28 200,945,400

136 NTOROKO 65 523,651,500 65 523,651,500 137 NTUNGAMO 73 601,773,350 73 601,773,350 138 NTUNGAMO MC 23 204,817,000 23 204,817,000

139 NWOYA 103 709,563,400 103 709,563,400

140 OMORO 73 506,786,000 2 17,250,000 75 524,036,000

141 OTUKE 84 627,603,900 26 196,935,000 110 824,538,900

142 OYAM 120 935,840,000 120 935,840,000 143 PADER 86 606,137,900 1 9,040,000 87 615,177,900

144 PAKWACH 48 279,259,879 10 94,531,000 58 373,790,879

145 PALLISA 92 728,015,870 92 728,015,870 146 RAKAI 126 902,406,000 9 68,578,800 135 970,984,800

147 RUBANDA 75 510,934,643 1 9,700,000 76 520,634,643

148 RUBIRIZI 68 438,623,539 16 119,214,000 84 557,837,539

149 RUKIGA 38 205,029,952 7 57,052,500 45 262,082,452

150 RUKUNGIRI 91 774,731,400 18 152,185,000 109 926,916,400

151 RUKUNGIRI MC 30 202,753,700 30 202,753,700

152 SEMBABULE 118 752,740,900 118 752,740,900

153 SERERE 149 1,021,624,064 149 1,021,624,064

154 SHEEMA 56 467,632,000 19 209,475,000 75 677,107,000

155 SHEEMA MC 18 149,518,000 18 149,518,000

156 SIRONKO 76 729,338,000 76 729,338,000

157 SOROTI 89 719,826,418 89 719,826,418

158 SOROTI MC 20 151,098,162 20 151,098,162

159 TORORO 127 1,054,528,993 7 68,049,000 134 1,122,577,993

160 TORORO MC 29 298,137,500 29 298,137,500

161 WAKISO 126 972,285,550 126 972,285,550

162 YUMBE 177 1,332,062,900 177 1,332,062,900

163 ZOMBO 100 643,715,500 100 643,715,500 NATIONAL TOTAL 13,298 98,911,269,506 897 7,956,215,080 14,195 106,867,484,586

SUMMARY OF FUNDS DISBURSED AS AT MAY 12, 2018