Key Interventions

  • Mindset change
  • Human capital development

Achievements for QTR 4-2023/2024

Probation and welfare sector

  • Strengthened adolescent programing
  • Engagement with out of school adolescents in child protection
  • Held youth council meetings
  • Social inquiry reports
  • District action center meetings

Labour sector

  • Inspected workplaces
  • Trained women employers on the roles, obligations during employment
  • Trained on descent work and Gender discrimination at work places
  • Settled Labour disputes
  • Trained workers on occupation safety and health

Gender sector

  • Held women, elderly, and PWDs councils
  • Women’s day celebrations were conducted in Lyakahungu Town council
  • Trained 178 adults on cultural values and social economic development

Government Programs

SAGE

  • SAGE beneficiary payments affected up to December 2024.
  • The targeted older persons have been verified, registered and enrolled.
  • All C&Gs have handled except for NIRA related issues that require different actors with overlapping mandates.
  • DLG allowances have been paid up to quarter 3 that is January March 2024.
  • Verification of 4665 potential beneficiaries conducted
  • Registration and enrollment of Eligible persons conducted
  • Capacity building training programs 1.e. DSO and STT conducted in our District.

Planned Activities.

  • Training of new staff who missed SCG implementation training
  • Home visitation for infirm older persons who missed the payments.
  • Registration of SAGE beneficiaries who never registered with NIRA.
  • Registration of beneficiaries whose details were wrongly captured.

Challenges.

  • Bounced payments for staff attributed to wrong account details and mismatch or poor spelling of account names.
  • Logistical challenges during program implementation.
  • Exclusion related challenges emanating from NIRA- wrong dates of birth amongst older persons hence missing out on SAGE payroll.
  • No funds for radio announcements following departure of donor support in June 2020

Recommendations.

  • Need for a refresher and continuous capacity building in areas of change management C&G and reporting.
  • Strengthen community engagement and mobilization for improved turn up on SAGE activities.

SEGOP.

This stands for Special Enterprise Grant for Older Persons. The program targets older persons between 60 to 79 years.

Under this program, the following groups have benefited.

No District Group Name Enterprise Sub-County Amount
1 Kamwenge Lyamugonera Goat rearing group Goat rearing Kahunge T/C 5,000,000
2 “ Benga older persons group Piggery Biguli S/C 5,000,000
3 “ Rwemirama goat rearing group Goat rearing Kamwenge T/C 5,000,000
4 “ Kampala B catering elderly group Catering Biguli S/C 5,000,000
5 “ Mabale 1 goat rearing group Goat rearing Nkoma S/C 5,000,000
6 “ Kamwenge coffee growers elderly association Coffee growing Kamwenge T/C 5,000,000
7 “ Bagurusi bakeikuru kora otungye group Goat rearing Kamwenge T/C 5,000,000
8 “ Rwentuha cattle rearing elderly group Cattle keeping Kamwenge S/C 5,000,000

Achievements.

  • Elderly councils sat
  • Chairperson Elderly council have been facilitated to attend National council celebrations
  • All8 SEGOP groups were funded

Programmatic issues/challenges.

  • Inadequate funding for the program
  • No funds for monitoring of SAGE and SEGOP activities.
  • No election of older person’s chairpersons from newly created parishes and town councils.

UWEP

Uganda Women entrepreneurship program started in FY 2016/2017 and has so far benefited 1602members in 167 women projects. The Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development disbursed 809,623,000= and so far 545,218,500= have been recovered and recycling.

Achievements of the Program

  • It has reduced on Gender based violence as women can sustain themselves other than depending on their spouses
  • Women testify that they have educated their children
  • They have improved on their livelihood by rearing cows, goats among others
  • They have also improved on their skills in trade especially those dealing in produce buying and selling.

Challenges

  • Covid-19 affected most activities of the women groups thus hindering their timely recoveries
  • Wrong perception by some group members that the funds were a donation from the president
  • Some women group leaders swindle the group funds

Youth Livelihood Program (YLP)

The program started in 2014/2015 and 146 groups have also benefited. The District received 1,246,093,000= and only 356,240,250= have been recovered.

Achievements

  • Few groups have used the money and have been refinanced

Challenges

  • Covid-19 affected the performance of the groups
  • Some goats died due to outbreak of diseases
  • Some group members disappeared with group funds
  • Groups with piggery projects also were affected by outbreak of diseases
  • The closure of livestock markets due to Covid-19 affected the performance of the groups
  • Price fluctuations due to covid-19

Recommendations

  • Need for sensitization meetings
  • Use of media especially radios
  • Involvement of political leaders at all levels