📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: horizont3000 - Austrian Organisation for Development Cooperation
Country: Uganda Contract type: EU supplementary financing Project start: 01.01.2025 Funding amount: € 123.000,00 End: 30.06.2027
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
The overall objective is to contribute to promoting economic independence, personal responsibility and participation of young people in political and development processes in the Pakwach and Zombo districts in West Nile, Uganda.
The project objectives are:
1) Empowering 1,000 underemployed youth in vulnerable enterprises (UYiVE), especially young women, to build sustainable businesses.
2) Strengthen the capacity of at least four local youth organizations (YLOs) to build a collective voice and advocate for policies that enable greater youth economic participation in development initiatives.
03) Strengthening youth capacity to participate and influence policies at local government level to ensure that sectors that affect them most receive more funding and support.
Expected results
1) Improved vocational, financial and business skills of 1,000 UYiVE, especially female youth, to develop their vulnerable home-grown businesses into profitable and sustainable enterprises.
02) Strengthened institutional and advocacy capacities of 4 local YLOs to demand equitable, inclusive and accountable service delivery from their local governments.
03) Inclusive and responsive formulation and implementation of youth development policies in the West Nile sub-region through improved participation of YLOs and UYiVE.
Target group / Beneficiaries
Target groups/partners/region:
Direct target groups:
233 direct beneficiaries (total 1,300, of which 725 are women, and 6% are young people with disabilities and/or HIV/AIDS):
• 179 underemployed youth in vulnerable businesses aged 15 to 30, organized into 40 Youth Business and Advocacy Groups (YBAGs);
• 18 youth network/group leaders;
• 29 local government officials at district and sub-district levels;
• 4 private sector actors from the areas of finance, input and output markets, as well as staff from economic, technical and vocational training institutions;
• 3 employees of AF ARD (local co-applicant).
1,324 people are indirectly benefited (total 7,400 people, 60% of whom are women).
Activities
A1) The measures aim to promote the economic independence and growth of youth-based enterprises (YBAGs) in rural communities. This will be achieved through training, business development, targeted promotion, and marketing support aimed at both capacity building and networking with government programs and market actors.
A2) Through targeted training and the development of Youth Budget Advocacy Champions, a cadre of competent youth representatives will be established to advocate for youth-specific concerns in municipal planning. The measure aims to strengthen the organizational and political capacities of youth organizations (YLOs) in the target districts
