Anyim Maber (bright and better future) Enhanced opportunities for employment and employability for youth with disabilities
Project Name: Anyim Maber (bright and better future
Project Donor: SightSavers
Department: Economic Empowerment
Project Goal: Socio-economic empowerment of female and male youth with disabilities in Oyam, Nwoya, Gulu and Amuru by October 2026.
Project area: Gulu, Amuru, Oyam and Nwoya districts
Project period: 2022-2026
Project Target group
- Youth with disabilities entrepreneurs
- Job seekers with disabilities
Project Objectives/outcomes
- Business Development and access to skills and financial services by Entrepreneurs.
- Job seekers have the appropriate skills, and access to job markets to secure decent employment.
- Youth with disabilities meaningfully contribute to governance processes to raise awareness of the barriers they face and to promote a conducive business environment to operate their enterprises and secure decent employment
Project Activities:
- 3,000 beneficiaries enrolled in VSLA of which at least 1,800 are Persons with Disabilities.
- 250 Persons with Disabilities will benefit from mobility and assistive devices. In the VSLA groups formed at least 60% must be persons with disabilities, 25% caretakers and 15% other community members, this is intended to promote integration.
- Out of the total beneficiaries at least 54% shall be females and males 46%.
- 25% of the total beneficiaries shall be youths who will benefit from vocational skills training.
Expected impact of the action on its target group/beneficiaries:
Technical: 480 youth with disabilities completing employment-related training (including 240 linked to MSMEs for apprenticeships and 120 to VTI vocational skills courses.)
120 MSMEs trained on business development
60 VTI staff receive training on disability inclusion
and norms for improved food security for all.
Economic: 120 Entrepreneurs (youth with disabilities, particularly young women with disabilities with existing businesses) access appropriate business development services and finance products to grow their businesses
240 young women and men with disabilities entering employment in MSMEs owned by young women and men with disabilities.
and norms for improved food security for all.
Social: Social behaviour change targeting parents, guardians, and other family members of youths with disability to create conducive environment for the economic empowerment of youth with disabilities.
and norms for improved food security for all.
Policy: Regulatory environment and requisite enablers at the parish, district and national levels strengthened to enhance access to employment and social protection including creating accountability mechanisms for Government commitments related to economic empowerment for young men and women with disabilities.
and norms for improved food security for all.
Key stakeholders:
- MSMEs run by youth with disabilities.
- Youth with disabilities.
- Parents and guardians of youth with disabilities
- Youth wings of organizations of persons with disabilities
- District level government officials
- National Disability Coordination Committee
- Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development
- National Council of Disability
- Vocational Training Institutes
- Apprenticeship centres
- Banks, financial institutions and business development service providers
- Gender Based Violence (GBV) networks
- Parish Development Committees
- Challenges Worldwide
- NUDIPU is an OPD umbrella organisation.
- NUWODU
Projects Statistics
Alot has been accomplished and more to come
Time Flame: Sept 2021 to 2024 October
Area of Operation: Kasese and Buvuma districts
Sponsored by
3000
Set Targets
70%
Indirect Beneficiallies
75
Direct Beneficially
2
Years running