G-2481

Sam Owori Rotary Vijana Poa Vi

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Project Description

Region: Africa

Country: Uganda

Location: Kampala

Total Budget: $80,301

Areas of Focus: Water, sanitation and hygiene, Community economic development



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Africa's youth population is rapidly growing and expected to double to over 830 million by 2050. Of Africa's nearly 420 million youth aged 15-35, one-third are unemployed and discouraged, another third are vulnerably employed, and only one in six is in wage employment..." (African Development Bank, 2016). According to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, Uganda's youth population (18 - 30) is about 8.98 million and youth unemployment rate in 2016/2017 was 13% . As a result of this, desperation and destitution are driving youth to crime, drugs, and militias that fuel the increasing vicious spiral of violence and instability in many African countries.

It is not lack of opportunity, or just lack of jobs (though also recognised as a major challenge), but blindness to opportunity, a focus on white collar jobs produced by the education systems, and near absence of high level competence in artisan work.

The Rotary Vijana Poa ("Youth are Cool") programme was piloted throughout Rotary District 9211 during 2016/17 as an initiative where 47 Clubs initiated projects and internships to create employment, investing over $100,000 to train the youth and fund their enterprises: 2,934 youth were trained; 1,119 common sense enterprises started; 141 internships offered; and 1,817 youths are now making a living, most of them self-employed . The Key Intervention Objectives include:

• For non-educated youth and those who drop out of school for various reasons: to generate "common sense" enterprises in communities and in the real world where their skills will be honed by situations that cannot be replicated in a sterile educational environment.

• For graduates that are hard to employ: to provide school-to-work transition starting with mind-set change, re-skilling as needed, and re-focusing to "common sense" enterprises, and/or work-based programs (internship and apprenticeship placements).

It is on this background that the SORVP will is being developed as a Regional Centre of Excellence with sustainable relevance to society, being both an operational and conceptual base, for:

i. Refocusing and skilling youth to be economically productive and socially conscious;

ii. Promoting and guiding multiple small-scale community-based Rotary Club-nurtured interventions planted around the continent;

iii. Compiling and sharing best practices in addressing the challenge of youth unemployment;

iv. Generating best practices that African governments can use to make curricula more effective in creating work-ready youth at any stage of exiting the formal education.

In this phase, the first skilling centre, carpentry skills and entrepreneurship development as well as a water system will be implemented: the carpentry workshop will be constructed using funds raised locally by the Rotary Club of Kampala North, and global grant funding will be used for equipping the workshop and installation of water supply system (extraction, transmission, and storage.

The tentative timelines for the project are from 10th 0ctober 2020 to 31st May 2021.

Primary Host Partner

District: 9211

Rotary Club of: Kampala-North

Primary Contact: Priscilla Nakiboneka

Email: pnakiboneka@yahoo.co.uk

Primary International Partner

District: 3232

Rotary Club of: Madras Coromandel

Primary Contact: Ravi Raman

Email: rrindus@yahoo.com

Project Status

Paid
This project is "Paid". This means the funds have been received and the project is being implemented.

Project listed for the 2021-22 Rotary Year.

The TRF Grant application number is #1987026.

Proposed Financing

Existing Contributions Towards This Project

Date

Cash

DDF

Total

Kampala-North (9211)

10-Jul-20

$20,000

$9,112

$29,112

Madras Central (3232)

1-Dec-20

$5,000

$0

$5,000

Cataraqui-Kingston (7040)

1-Dec-20

$4,000

$0

$4,000

District 7040 DDF

1-Dec-20

-

$2,000

$2,000

Medicine Hat (5360)

1-Dec-20

$4,000

$0

$4,000

Calenberg-Pattensen (1800)

1-Dec-20

$2,000

$0

$2,000

Muthaiga (9212)

1-Dec-20

$200

$0

$200

Madras East (3232)

1-Dec-20

$2,000

$0

$2,000

Sunrise-Kampala (9211)

21-Dec-20

$500

$0

$500

Kampala (9211)

5-Mar-21

$1,000

$0

$1,000

Springe (1800)

5-Mar-21

$600

$0

$600

Chennai Sagar (3232)

17-Jun-21

$21,000

$0

$21,000

Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation

-

$8,889

$8,889

Total

$80,301

Note: as of July 1, 2015 there is a 5% additional support fee for cash contributions. This fee does not appear in the financials above because it does not apply if the funds are sent directly to the project account (without going through TRF, and therefore without Paul Harris credit). Clubs sending their cash contribution to TRF must be aware they will have to send an additional 5%.

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History Log Entries

10-Jul-20

System Entry

System Entry: Creation of project page.

12-Jul-20

by Philippe Lamoise

System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged".

16-Jul-20

by Priscilla Nakiboneka

System Entry: Project reverted to "Published".

1-Dec-20

by Priscilla Nakiboneka

System Entry: Pledge of $5,000 by Vinod Saraogi of the Rotary Club of Madras Central, District 3232.

1-Dec-20

by Priscilla Nakiboneka

System Entry: Pledge of $2,000 by Bill Gray of the Rotary Club of Cataraqui-Kingston, District 7040.

1-Dec-20

by Priscilla Nakiboneka

System Entry: Pledge of $2,000 DDF by Bill Gray of District 7040.

1-Dec-20

by Priscilla Nakiboneka

System Entry: Pledge of $2,000 by Dieter Brand of the Rotary Club of Medicine Hat, District 5360.

1-Dec-20

by Priscilla Nakiboneka

System Entry: Pledge of $2,000 by Barbara Hartung of the Rotary Club of Calenberg-Pattensen, District 1800.

1-Dec-20

by Priscilla Nakiboneka

System Entry: Pledge of $200 by Geeta Manek of the Rotary Club of Muthaiga, District 9212.

1-Dec-20

by Priscilla Nakiboneka

System Entry: Pledge of $2,000 by Selvan Murugavel of the Rotary Club of Madras East, District 3232.

21-Dec-20

by Priscilla Nakiboneka

System Entry: Pledge of $500 by Dorcas Tusubira of the Rotary Club of Sunrise-Kampala, District 9211.

5-Mar-21

by Priscilla Nakiboneka

System Entry: Pledge of $1,000 by Jimmy Serugo of the Rotary Club of Kampala, District 9211.

5-Mar-21

by Priscilla Nakiboneka

System Entry: Pledge of $600 by Dr. Christian Sachweh of the Rotary Club of Springe, District 1800.

8-Mar-21

by Priscilla Nakiboneka

System Entry: Pledge of $16,000 DDF by Ho hyun Lee of District 3750.

8-Mar-21

by Priscilla Nakiboneka

System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged".

17-Jun-21

by Priscilla Nakiboneka

System Entry: Pledge of $21,000 by Shobana Ramanathan of the Rotary Club of Chennai Sagar, District 3232.

16-Jul-21

by Priscilla Nakiboneka

System Entry: Project reverted to "Published".

16-Jul-21

by Priscilla Nakiboneka

System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged".

16-Jul-21

by Priscilla Nakiboneka

System Entry: Application Sent to The Rotary Foundation through Member Access.

3-Oct-21

by Priscilla Nakiboneka

System Entry: Application approved by The Rotary Foundation.

24-Mar-22

by Priscilla Nakiboneka

System Entry: Payment has been issued by The Rotary Foundation.

2-May-23

by Priscilla Nakiboneka

There is ongoing procurement of service providers for drilling and consultancy for feasibility studies and design of the water supply system for the carpentry workshop at Busunju.

Sensitisation of the stakeholders was initiated and will continue at different stages of the project.

4-Jan-24

by Priscilla Nakiboneka

The implementation of the project is ongoing but has been slow mainly due to land ownership delays initially and then later due to the water source being outside the project land and therefore necessitating negotiations. Draft report was due in March 2023 and was submitted.

Hydrogeological surveys and siting of borehole was done in July 2023 and the two potential sites for drilling were outside the project land. Negotiations with land owners was done in August 2023 but did not yield positive results inspite of sensitisation meetings held with the community and the leaders. A new site was identified and survey and siting of the new proposed site was done in December 2023. A report on the siting is awaited. If the new site is viable then drilling of the borehole will be the next activity.

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