Uganda’s national youth policy  and job creation for youth

Makumbi, Rita

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dc.contributor.author	Makumbi, Rita
dc.date.accessioned	2021-12-14T06:01:41Z
dc.date.available	2021-12-14T06:01:41Z
dc.date.issued	2018-11
dc.identifier.uri	https://pub.nkumbauniversity.ac.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/257
dc.description	The paper explores the contribution of the Uganda National Youth Policy (NYP) to job creation in Kampala. Unemployment especially of young people is one of the daunting problems that has dogged Uganda for a generation. Unemployment or lack of jobs for the youth has often been associated with poverty, violence, internal conflicts, prostitution, risky migrations, redundancy, drugs, death, crime and negative cultural practices. The consequence of all that is that, 63% of Ugandan in-mates were youth. In view of this bleak and drab situation, government formulated a NYP of 2001.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Uganda’s Youth Livelihood Program (YLP) and the consequent Youth Livelihood Fund (YLF) are government programs established under the National Youth Policy (NYP), designed to support young people to find employment by extending grants and other support to small groups of young entrepreneurs, to help them to start small businesses and thus create employment for other young jobseekers. Drawing on a study involving 177 rural and urban youths, this article discusses the design and implementation of the YLP. It argues that the NYP has fallen short in several respects. In addition to funding, employment generation requires additional support for youth in a range of areas, including awareness-raising about employment opportunities, enhancing vocational and entrepreneurial skills, and providing advice and guidance on starting up small businesses.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	The IDS Bulletin Institute of Development Studies, Library Road, Brighton BN1 9RE, UK	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Vol. 49;No. 5
dc.subject	Youth employment	en_US
dc.subject	Africa	en_US
dc.subject	Uganda	en_US
dc.subject	National youth policy	en_US
dc.subject	Value addition	en_US
dc.title	Uganda’s national youth policy and job creation for youth	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Youth employment and the private sector in Africa.	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US